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- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: -----the Minister of State made the point that 1.5% of the population are paying 25% of the tax. Therefore, the Minister of State has addressed that point to my mind.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Hold on-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I will allow the Minister of State in to reply.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I ask the Minister of State to go ahead.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: While the Senator can come back in, this is not a to-and-fro session.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I will let the Senator back in but-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: The rules do not permit me to allow people to throw in heckles, digs, questions or whatever one wants to call them. This applies to the Minister of State as much as to the Senator. The Senator says her piece, the Minister of State responds and the Senator can come back in. That is the way it works. The Senator cannot keep chipping in in the middle of the Minister of State's contributions.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I have asked the Minister of State-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: That is not helpful either.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I am going to put the question.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: We are not there yet.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: No, section 18 deals with flat rate expenses.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Is the Senator referring to the Bill, Committee Stage recommendations or the Bill as passed?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: The version I have here is-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: We are dealing with section 15. We will then take sections 16 and 17 and when we get to section 18, we can deal with Senator Kieran O'Donnell's point.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: That is why I am out of one chair and into another. I want to speak on this issue.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: With the greatest respect, I acknowledge that property values where Senator Conway-Walsh is living are not the same as those in the general local authority area I represented. The help-to-buy scheme was very much a Fianna Fáil initiative in the confidence and supply agreement with the Government. All one needs to do is go on daft.ieand look at the price of any three-bedroom...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I move recommendation No. 3: In page 20, after line 33, to insert the following: "Report on flat rate expenses 18.The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the review by the Revenue Commissioners on flat rate expenses and ways in which low and medium income earners can be protected from any change that may arise.". ...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I am inclusive always. My three recommendations are about preparing and laying before the Oireachtas a report on the review by the Revenue Commissioners on flat-rate expenses and ways in which low and medium income earners can be protected from any change that may arise. The point, as no doubt the Minister of State will be aware, is that this is a competence of the Revenue Commissioners. A...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I accept the point that the Minister of State made but there needs to be a genuine understanding by the Revenue and the Government of the effect of this change. I will not press the recommendation and I am happy to withdraw it, although I do not know what Senator Conway-Walsh wants to do. I will withdraw, having listened to the Minister of State's analysis, but it is important that we keep...