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Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: We are Deputy Broughan's colleagues.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: Anyone who examines this budget objectively will agree that those who have most will carry most in terms of these four motions.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: No Deputy would disagree with their provisions. We could have imposed higher taxes on middle or lower income earners. Some Members on that side of the House would advocate further cuts instead of these taxes. I am delighted that we are having a mature debate, as this House goes. In the years to come, the country's sovereignty will have been regained. I make no bones about the fact that...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: My parliamentary question showed that the Opposition parties did nothing to cost their budget proposals.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: It is as simple as this, and we pointed it out to the Opposition. One can build something - for example, a house - block by block. However, Sinn Féin is pouring cement on it.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: There is no foundation. With all deference to every Deputy, one cannot cost parts-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: I am sorry, but I have not shouted at anyone-----

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: -----and I have no intention of doing so or of talking anyone down. That is not how I operate.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: However, I will highlight the fact that one cannot submit or cost part of a budget.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: Some Deputies have made proposals amounting to €1 billion while others have claimed they would tell the IMF to go home and that we did not need money.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: The totality of the argument is either founded or unfounded.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: Some people claim there is an easy way to remove money from an economy. One statistic that Deputies should know is that, two years ago, approximately 30% of our entire debt-to-GDP ratio was accounted for by banking debts. We could be compared with Zimbabwe, not Sweden or the other developing Nordic countries to which we aspire. We have reduced that figure to less than one third of what it...

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: Deputy Martin did not want to be in government. It is unbelievable.

Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: Is it now three?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has investigated the use of a smart phone app to be used by Gardaí in order to scan barcodes on cigarettes to determine if tax has been paid and identify illegal cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54752/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing the VAT on newspapers to a similar level as seen in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54753/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on difficulties facing students who are unable to provide social welfare offices with proof of being enrolled in full-time education when applying for social welfare payments, as they are unable to pay registration fee while waiting for Student Universal Support Ireland to approve their grant applications and are designated as temporarily...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans in place when awarding the Student Universal Support Ireland grant application processing contract to Dublin Vocational Education Committee should a delay in the processing of grants arise; if a contingency plan for dealing with delays was submitted by each entity that tendered for the contract; if a condition of the contract...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry was awarded supplementary welfare allowance when residing in Ireland in 1998; if they met all conditions necessary for the entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance in that year, the reason they are not entitled to SWA at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54669/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourist Accommodation (5 Dec 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide accommodation occupancy statistics for hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfasts, hostels and self catering accommodation for year to date in 2012, or alternatively accommodation occupancy statistics for any part of 2012, for Dublin city, the south-west region and County Kerry. [54650/12]