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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The fact is there are people who are willing to go to extremes to make a statement. While we do not know what is going on in people's heads, there are those who go to certain extremes to make a statement about their dissatisfaction at the way the country is run. While my amendment has been ruled out of order, there are ways in which to generate more income that can relieve the pressure on...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: While it is fine keeping the matter under review, the problem is that in the here and now we could bring in millions of euro to the Revenue that would allow the State to do other things or lessen the burden on other measures already introduced. The capital acquisitions tax is made up of two elements, the inheritance tax and the gift tax. A person does not have a choice as to when he or she...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: At the end of the day, this concerns a benefit that somebody may get in the future. It is better to reduce these benefits. They are still being left with a massive exemption.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, which of my amendments have been ruled out of order?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is out of character for the Acting Chairman to be ruling people out of order.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but Deputy Mathews has the Chair. Can I challenge that ruling?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to challenge the ruling. Can the Acting Chairman not overrule the previous ruling?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: In that case, anyone who has entered into a civil partnership and who has been discommoded as a result of that oversight-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. Will there be a backdating of the position?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will be bringing forward amendments on Report Stage which I have not previously tabled and withdrawn. I reserve the right to resubmit some of them. I will be tabling amendments relating to the aviation sector and VAT.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If it is good for the goose, it is good for the gander.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If that is the case, I wish to do likewise and take the same opportunity.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is this our last opportunity to vote?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, for being forthright and for agreeing to take on board and examine some of the issues about which we have had concerns. I thank the officials in particular for their work during the past two days and for the two briefings provided beforehand. While we have very different views on the Finance Bill, I...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tourism Industry (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Taoiseach further to the statements by the Irish Hotels Federation criticising both the detail of statistics collected by the Central Statistics Office in respect of tourist behaviour, and the tardiness of the production of visitor statistics with 2011 just now being published, if there are plans to improve the timeliness and detail of these statistics; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of unsecured creditors at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation when it was placed in special liquidation on 6 February 2013. [12622/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 181 of 26 February 2013, which showed that deposits in Irish banks, based on which these banks hand over 0.2% at the end of each year to be held by the Central Bank of Ireland in its Deposit Guarantee Scheme, had declined from €217bn at the end of 2011 to €190bn at the end of 2012, if this is correct; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the policy of Allied Irish Banks in which he is the shareholder of 99.8% of the shares in writing down debt owed on commercial loans and if ordinary shareholders in companies where debt write-offs will be agreed by AIB, will be 100% wiped out before any debt write-off is agreed by AIB. [12624/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eligible Liabilities Guarantee (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown by covered institution of the €1,235,980,000 in 2011 and €1,024,786,000 in 2012 of Eligible Liabilities Guarantee fees received by the State; and if he will provide a projection of the fees payable in 2013 by covered institution and the projected fees in Budget 2013. [12625/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 on 27 February 2013, if he will confirm if it is KPMG corporate finance that will provide the independent valuation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage loanbook. [12626/13]