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

Peadar Tóibín: Some of the political parties in this Chamber often say that while Sinn Féin is in government in the North, it is not a real government and is only an administration.

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

Peadar Tóibín: On the flip side, however, when we talk about fiscal powers, they complain about our policies on fiscal powers in the North. It is incongruous to say on the one hand that the Administration is not the same as the Government down here and then to blame that Administration for its lack of taxation powers in the North.

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

Peadar Tóibín: The SNP is fighting tooth and nail like us against London to stop the Tory cuts within society. That does not mean that there does not need to be public services provision. The tax-to-GDP ratio in this State is far lower than the average in Europe. With regard to taxation, we have a bit to go before we can say that we are taxing people too much. The Netherlands has one of the highest...

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

Peadar Tóibín: Our worry is that the Fiscal Advisory Council is saying Fine Gael is a threat to stability.

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

Peadar Tóibín: It did not say so in so many words. I admit that I am paraphrasing. It said the party's taxation policies and the shift from personal taxation to a volatile corporation taxation sector is very damaging.

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

Peadar Tóibín: It is also talking about the reduction of USC constituting a threat of inflation or to the delivery of public services. Sinn Féin is saying, "By all means create a broad tax base, but do so in a way that reflects the incomes of individuals". Why design a tax rate that is ignorant of the incomes of individuals? For nearly 300 years, western society has been trying to order its tax to...

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

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3:In page 3, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“4.(1) All payments made by liable persons under the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 shall be reimbursed where such payments are payments liable to be made for the year in which this Act is enacted. (2) Reimbursements under subsection (1)shall be of the same amount as the amount of tax paid by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost of providing an in-work benefit to all working families to guarantee an hourly income rate of €11.75 per hour. [44864/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost of providing an in-work benefit to all individual workers ensuring a minimum hourly income rate of €11.75 per hour. [44865/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who were accepted under the living over the shop scheme and the cost of relief, by county, for the past five years in tabular form. [45089/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Staff (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 194. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the different sections within Enterprise Ireland including the numbers of employees in each section. [44965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to ensure that nurses who live here and who seek to undertake a Return to Nursing Course are not tied to the hospital in which they undertake the Course or forced to pay €1,200 to extricate themselves from this condition, or to sign a waiver regarding the payment incentive to undertake the Course. [45327/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme Funding (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the €30 million budget allocation of the Rural Regeneration and Investment in Rural Communities’ Package for each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form, as announced in September 2015 [45092/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Agencies (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 594. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the annual cost to the Exchequer of establishing and maintaining the digital hub development agency and any other related or investment or grant costs since 2003 to date related to the digital hub, in tabular form. [45090/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Agencies (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 595. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of new jobs created at or arising from the establishment of the digital hub, in tabular form. [45091/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Annual Report 2014: Discussion (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas mar gheall ar an cur i lathair iontach. First, I congratulate the witnesses on the level of job creation in which they have been involved. From our perspective, we sometimes like to see what types of things can be fixed within a process to make it even better for the country, and the IDA can be coy about discussing those because it does not wish to send out a negative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Annual Report 2014: Discussion (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is considerable volatility in the profile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Annual Report 2014: Discussion (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the startling successes outside Dublin has been the Belfast to Dublin corridor. It offers opportunities to create critical mass outside Dublin. On the comments made about Meath and the levels of IDA Ireland jobs, I know that all of the Deputies are obviously engaged and fired up about the issue and I do not wish to have the poor mouth too much, but Kildare has about seven times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Annual Report 2014: Discussion (15 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: -----have the highest levels of commuters in the country, with the furthest distance to commute. It is important for the health of the county, economic and socially, to have this type of enterprise developed locally. Will Mr. Shanahan clarify what spatial guide IDA Ireland uses for location choices for these companies? Rather than blame IDA Ireland, what can counties such as Meath...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: American taxes and European public services. That is not going to work.