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Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the opposite of what happened with the previous amendment, when the Government moved in respect of a view of the committee. This time, it has decided not to move. I am curious to know why the Minister is travelling down this road. It is not particular to this Bill, as a pattern has developed across a number of Bills in recent times. The Customs Act 2015 springs to mind. The new...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 5:In page 39, line 19, to delete “High Court” and substitute “Circuit Court”.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire freagra a thabhairt ar an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire Stáit faoi "stability" i gcomhthéacs an cáin mhaoine áitiúil. Dúirt sé go bhfuil an cáin seo mar shaghas tacaíochta do "stability". It is clear that the Minister of State has not been listening to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's latest...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Exactly. There is no doubt about it.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the fact there should be taxation on jobs.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Bertie Ahern shifted taxation from personal taxation towards stamp duty, which applies in a very unstable section of the economy. The current Government is doing the exact same thing and thereby creating instability.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Incredibly, some 140 companies pay 70% of all corporation tax. The focus on this narrow sector of society reminds me of the focus on another narrow sector of society - the construction industry - some years ago. The Government has created an unbalanced economy, with 90% of exports coming from the foreign direct investment sector. Countries like Denmark and Austria provide approximately 40%...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are likely to have to eat their Christmas dinner elsewhere. Members of the Government will stand in the photographs highlighting this disaster while the people to whom I refer will still be expected to pay their property tax. That is cynical. I find this Bill cynical because it represents and admission that the value of a house no longer represents the wealth of a family. A recent...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If property price inflation continues, the average family will face a property tax bill approximately €180 higher by 2019. As a result, the Fine Gael backbenchers from south Dublin and elsewhere come into the House and create a racket and burn the ear off the Minister for Finance. They say that now, as the election approaches, people are facing a massive increase in property charges...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There are no Labour Party Deputies present in the House. However, Labour Party Deputies have been singing about this matter during the past year. Where they are on local authorities with Sinn Féin, which has been using its mandate to reduce local property tax, they have been criticising what Sinn Féin has been doing and saying it is hollowing out the income of local authorities,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin has submitted amendments and I hope we will have time to debate them. It will be a travesty if we do not. I hope the Government will respond and say that it will amend the Bill to ensure that exemptions will include people suffering as a result of the floods. Mention was made of exemptions from the tax for people whose homes have been affected by pyrite but only 80 people...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Or a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Government.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“3. (1) The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 is hereby repealed in its entirety.(2) This repeal will be deemed to have come into operation on the date of enactment of this Act.”. The purpose of the Sinn Féin amendment is to exempt everybody in society from the local property tax,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There will be bonfires in the Falls Road, the Creagan and maybe even County Tyrone now that Lord Kildare here has joined the fight for Irish unity and the freedom of this country.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome that greatly.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The fiscal powers of the North are, unfortunately, located in London.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: My party alone of all the political parties in the House is working tooth and nail, night and day to bring those fiscal powers from London back to Ireland. That is our clear objective.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We welcome the sunny day that we will have those taxes back in this country.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt in my mind that on the sunny day when fiscal power has been returned to Ireland from London, we will order our taxation system in the manner we seek to here also.