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Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Tánaiste referred to a 27% increase for VAT registration.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not oppose either of these resolutions. In the area of services we are spawning a number of new companies and we need to increase this. The threshold of €35,000 turnover is very modest. Many small businesses are overwhelmed by bureaucratic requirements. Is this the main thrust behind this change, as distinct from the imposition of VAT? The amount of €52.5 million per year is not...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The removal of 8,000 small companies from the register for VAT seems high. Are the figures entirely negligible in some cases and substantial in other cases? I presume some would have minimal liability and others would have a higher figure.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am rooted in it and was raised in it.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Would the Minister have been above the threshold?

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding stream for the provision of quality bus corridors; the amount available in 2007; the amount available under Transport 21; the amount provided in each of the years since 2002 and to date in 2006; the amount drawn down in each of those years; and the persons by whom it was drawn down and the project in relation to same. [41646/06]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (6 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects the 100 private sector operated buses to be fully deployed and operating in Dublin; the areas they will serve; the estimated cost of these buses and services to the Exchequer; and the funding set aside for these buses in the Book of Estimates 2007. [41658/06]

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government co-operated with me at the beginning of this year in putting through a Private Members' Bill to reform the coroner service. However, in November of last year, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated the heads of a comprehensive new coroners Bill would be published to facilitate discussion. When will it be before the House? Does the Taoiseach intend to make...

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Could the Taoiseach be any more explicit than "soon"?

Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: It did not arrive at all.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: Expectations around a budget have never been so high and the reasons for this are straightforward. The revenue yield from taxation as compared with forecasts at the time of budget 2006 were further out than a lighthouse. No Minister for Finance since independence had so many resources available to him. The Government deliberately and calculatedly leaked its substantial contents in the days...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: However, he has not followed through with any meaningful reform. He seems to have spent much of October and November reannouncing last year's budget announcements. On last night's "Nine O'Clock News" he trumped himself. How many people in the House saw Deputy Brennan on the news last night?

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I will. He announced to the nation that he had introduced a new payment for poorer children, about a third.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister need not heckle me. I have the quotes, as I played it back this morning.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: He said child benefit is to increase and "on top of that, for the very first time, an extra payment of €22 will be made". When the interviewer asked him to clarify the point he again said this €22 was on top of the child dependant allowance and was an "extra payment". The representative from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, who is not accustomed to that kind of brazen faced...

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: For some families this is an increase of 40 cent per child per week, yet the Minister tells us that everyone will receive €22 extra. It is unbelievable that the Minister could make such a statement and more unbelievable that he could get away with it. If he were to target resources at poor children I would welcome that because despite our wealth, Barnardos——

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: What does the cost have to do with it? Nobody argues that the Minister did not revamp the CDA and make a modest improvement in the existing CDA to €22.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister presented it as a new, extra payment on top of child benefit.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister has been getting away with it and I admire his ability to put his best foot forward.

Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)

Pat Rabbitte: I am not wrong.