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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I asked last year that this committee investigate and holding hearings on these matters. This was prior to the availability of the Seanad report. Since then, we have had formal preliminary investigations into Ireland's sweetheart deals with multinational corporations, which in time will be proved or disproved. This boils down to something Professor Barry said earlier. Professor Barry,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with Professor Barry that we have to be very conscious of the ramifications of any measure that we take. However, every year we make changes through the Finance Bill. We know the loophole exists whereby companies locate here and make billions in profits annually while not paying tax anywhere in the world. The Department of Finance is happy to have the matter dealt with at a global...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple's profits do not end up in the Caribbean.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple Operations International, AOI, is incorporated here and is not tax resident in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands or any other country. The company does not have tax residency here but is incorporated in Ireland and controlled in the United States. Either the United States decides the company is tax resident in the US because it is controlled there or Ireland decides the company is tax...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We are discussing a different company.

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to raise two issues with the Taoiseach. On the proposal that was agreed by the Cabinet on the banking inquiry, could he give the House an indicative timeframe as to when a committee will be appointed and established to hold the inquiry? I accept the terms of reference are in the gift of this House but I wish to hear whether the Taoiseach expects the inquiry to get under way this year...

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point. The statutory requirement to have Second Stage passed will extend to January of next year. Why is it proposed to have only two days of debate on Second Stage, and is it the intention of the Government to guillotine the finance Bill? Could the Taoiseach give an assurance that the finance Bill, which will give effect to the budget – another tough budget as...

Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: They were guillotined in previous years.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will be moving an amendment to the motion.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: While previous speakers spoke about hypocrisy, there cannot be enough debate in the Chamber about the mortgage arrears crisis. The more we debate the issues involved, the more we can come up with solutions. There is no perfect solution, however, because the crisis is too big, but by focusing on it I hope the Government and the Central Bank will be encouraged to act. It is welcome that the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Curaclam Scoile (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 46. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an raibh aon phlé aige leis an Roinn Oideachas agus Scileanna maidir le hathbhreithniú ar an gcuraclam do scoileanna Gaeltachta; an mbeidh aon ionchur aige ar na téarmaí tagartha d’aon athbhreithniú den chinéal sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [38491/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available from his Department to the aviation leasing industry including exemptions from VAT and other forms of taxation and an estimation of the value of the exemptions to the Exchequer and the number employed in this sector. [36901/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Debt (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns over the independence of StepChange Debt Charity as the selected third party service provider for the Central Bank's pilot scheme for multi-debt restructuring given that it is funded by financial institutions. [37308/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Debt (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of financial institutions currently operating here funded directly or through their British associates, StepChange Debt Charity. [37309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the total paid to a special manager (details supplied) in County Kildare since their appointment. [37369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Agreements (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax returned to the Vodafone group; if so, the reason and the cost to the State; and if he will provide any other companies which operate internationally to which the Government has returned tax in the past three years. [37403/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if the introduction of last year's proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, projected to raise in the region of €250 million, would impact on the savings that could be made by a proposal to standardise the pension tax relief rate and reduce the income linked pension ceiling to €70,000, projected to raise €555...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the saving he expects to make in private pension tax reliefs from the introduction of last year's budget proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, which will see people above the SFT losing their pension tax reliefs [37815/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the connection Springboard Mortgages has to Permanent TSB; if he will confirm that Springboard offered sub-prime mortgages; and the number of these mortgages remaining in operation. [37946/13]