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Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State is not giving us the figures.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: How can the Minister of State ridicule the figure I gave when he does not have the data himself?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I did not. I indicated the basis on which I calculated the figure for next year.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: It worries me that the Minister of State does not know the figures after 2017 and cannot give a projected figure for 2020. A payment of €2.5 billion in corporation tax suggests that these are wealthy companies. The question is why they do not pay their employees sufficiently to incentivise them to come to Ireland. Why should the taxpayers of this country pay them to do so? I do not...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not be repetitive. It is clear that the Minister of State will not turn on this. We are here to represent people. In fact, the answer the Government got in the by-elections should have made it re-examine things like this and tax fairness. People have nothing left in their pockets because of the tax they are paying and we should not be protecting the 31 people who had incomes of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I would have said Fine Gael was pretty irrelevant in the recent by-election.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State did.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: What did the Minister of State say?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Section 16 concerns the help to buy scheme. We disagree with this scheme. The original costing suggested that the scheme would cost €130 million in total, however, we know that by August 2019, the cost was €206.4 million. The aim of the scheme is to help first-time buyers raise the 10% deposit to purchase a property but we know that the average help to buy purchase was above...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: This scheme does not do anything for housing. It benefits people who do not need it. There is an issue of deadweight here. I made clear, both here and on Second Stage, my party's objections to this. I oppose section the section.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We need to examine the impact on low and medium earners before that is changed.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Until all that is done, can the flat-rate expense allowance regime not just be extended for another year until the impact has been properly assessed? The Minister of State said it will be introduced in January 2020.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I cannot accept this. I am worried about the impact that this will have on low and middle income workers and this cannot be left up to Revenue. I will press the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understood that Sinn Féin had sorted out this section in the Dáil. Can the Minister of State clarify that?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 5: In page 33, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 27.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to one month’s rent of an individual available to all renters not already in receipt of any...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why within our alternative budget we cited an emergency freeze on rents for three years to address the question of the transfer to landlords.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 6: In page 33, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on introduction of a progressive wealth tax 27.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available for the introduction of a comprehensive and progressive wealth tax. The report shall include...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I point out that we are talking about 0.25% of the wealthiest people in the State and we are talking about a 1% tax on amounts over €1 million. That would bring in €89 million. I really think this needs to be reviewed.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 15: In page 109, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "Report on VAT on food supplements 56. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the treatment of food supplements in terms of VAT and whether they can be zero rated.". We are proposing that within three months of the...