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- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, every Deputy is entitled to have a say on this Bill. We are reporting progress and we are on section 1 of the Bill, which has 157 sections. We are half way through the debate. This is a farce.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister can call it a bombardment but it is a farce that we will not even get past section 2 of the Bill or deal with the fact that the Revenue Commissioners will be given certain powers or the penalties. What is ongoing in this Chamber is a joke. I call on the Minister to be unafraid of debate. We can get through this section by section. The last Bill brought before the House by the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: PRSI is work.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: They are liabilities for some.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is not in the Bill.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: What is the country? The country is families and the people.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: PRSI.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Deputy Bannon did not read the legislation. The Minister will be aware that the Deputy has not read the legislation.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Is that the better speech?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: On a liability of €200,000, that is what the Minister fails to understand.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is on the average asset, which is the liability.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, line 12, to delete “sale;” and substitute the following: “sale, net of the following:(a) any outstanding liabilities on the mortgage of the relevant residential property, (b) the total value of stamp duty paid following the purchase of the relevant residential property where it was bought on or after 2000, (c) the value accruing to the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: He is the shining light as he called on the Minister to bring forward an easy payment system. He did not call on the Minister to consider the section deducting from farm payments or social welfare or the section dealing with the Revenue Commissioners' responsibilities. The Minister feels the Deputy in question is the shining light in here nonetheless.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: According to the Minister, we have not provided a pittance of information or analysis of issues that can be taken up. The Minister and the Government promised this legislation would be fair. The Bill has been discussed by the public for a long period but the Minister's arguments about resolutions are nonsense. The Minister knows the resolutions going through on the day of the budget are a...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: How ridiculous was An Taoiseach to stand in this House and parade in to introduce the vampire tax that will suck the lifeblood from home ownership? They are his words. It will grind people into the ground. He made those comments in 1994, when there was no issue of 170,000 people in mortgage distress. There were not hundreds of thousands of people in negative equity or 87,000 people...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: As the mover of the amendment, can I ask the Government to allow for extra time so we can hear the Minister's reply?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if the residents of Priory Hall, Dublin, are to be levied with the property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56458/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners whose homes have Pyrite issues will be levied with the property tax. [56459/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners who currently pay management fees will be levied with the property tax. [56460/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (18 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if any exemption will be given from the property tax to homeowners who have paid stamp duty in the previous nine years. [56461/12]