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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The earnings of most people in this country who have small businesses are not next to or near €100,000.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is all we are discussing in this amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is all that is in the amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is what the Minister is proposing. We have not proposed that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister want to accept my amendment?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific causes of the large increase in the intake of corporation tax in 2015. [40345/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the first year and full-year cost of increasing the employer pay related social insurance rate of 8.5% from €376 to €377. [40856/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Exemptions (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the first year and full year cost of exempting income earners at or below €19,572 from the universal social charge. [40854/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the first and full year revenue to be raised from increasing capital gains tax on passive investment to 35%. [40857/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first year and full-year cost of extending the early childhood care and education scheme annually to 48 weeks. [40858/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 132. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of additional early childhood care and education special needs assistants provided for in budget 2016’s related new measures; and any additional measures and resources contained within the commitment to facilitate children with disabilities. [40859/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special needs assistants provided for in budget 2016’s new measures, and any additional measures and resources contained within the commitment to facilitate children with disabilities. [40860/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a very important section, dealing as it does with the issue of foreign direct investment, corporation tax and the Government's efforts to reduce the potential exposure to tax for companies in the future. One of the problems with the economy we have created in this State is its over-reliance on foreign direct investment. There is an inherent imbalance within the Irish economy at the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: With regard to the kicking and screaming comments, Ireland's reputation was on the floor with regard to its corporation tax issues. It was at the heart of discussions of Congress investigations in the United States. I recall that when the Taoiseach was in California the Governor of California made a joke about Ireland's tax regulations in front of him. Internationally we have a poor...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State also mentioned in the context of our discussion about the imbalance in the economy that many of the jobs being created are in the indigenous economy. There is no doubt but that job creation in foreign directive investment, FDI, is totally out of kilter with regard to exports from foreign direct investment. In other words, foreign direct investment has an enormous...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: So drugs produced under a new patent would be included?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The scope is far larger then than I expected.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That means that the measuring of the processes within these facilities will be key. A cynic would say that if a drug is produced by way of a particular method and that process is altered somewhat then that is innovative because it has changed the process of manufacture of that drug. It may simply be the case that one ingredient has been introduced after another ingredient and so on. How...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The US Bureau of Economic Analysis stated American corporations based here made a profit of $970,000 and paid $25,000 in tax per employee per year, which is a phenomenally low effective corporation tax rate of approximately 2.5%. We can contrast this with the figure for citizens in County Wicklow, whom the Minister of State represents, who pay a tax rate of 40%. They will not have a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Absolutely. There must be an international process in which these loopholes are-----