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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed changes to tax reliefs on pension contributions; the way proposals announced in the four year plan will impact differently on public and private sector workers [45783/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the justification for not allowing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has no income to claim a jobseeker's payment while they participate in devilling and the basis on which the labour market activation programme and FÁS apprenticeship programmes can both permit the payment of State income support when a person in this...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the fact that finally the Government has recognised a need to do something on the pensions front. For years it has been in denial about the fact that our pensions system was more about facilitating tax avoidance than encouraging pension provision. The way in which it operates, as the Minister and her officials will be aware, has been inequitable. That is the reality. A total of...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: -----for allowing that additional generosity. There is no basis for doing that. However, the worst aspect of Financial Resolutions Nos. 8 and 9 is that they do not take effect until 1 January. Essentially, the Minister is telling those wealthy individuals to,-----

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: -----move their money fast. They have three weeks to take €1.3 million tax-free and run. At a time when people cannot afford to put food on the table for their children and people are having their electricity cut off and cannot afford to heat their homes, the Minister is telling the wealthiest people coming up to Christmas to take the money and run, and the Government is prepared to allow...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Address the points made. We know the policies.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Why does that not apply to public sector pensioners? The Tánaiste seems to think it was all right to dip into public sector pensions.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: It is a bit late in the day.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I agree that this is a complete con. It is a new tax. We have been given all kinds of assurances about people on minimum wages not being included in the tax net. They are not in the income tax net but they are caught in the net with this charge. This charge started as a universal social contribution with an element of contributing and getting something back but this recently changed to a...

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: It is really a poverty trap.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: What about the salary of-----

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The social charge will apply to it.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: It will be taxed.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister regard that as fair?

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: So they lose €40 a week and then they are taxed on top of that. That certainly incentivises people to work all right.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach is never straight with us.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: He has never been straight with the people.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, we have not yet had sight of the Social Welfare Bill which is scheduled to be taken at 6.30 p.m. When are we likely to receive the legislation?

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Welfare Bill 2010 is a blatant and unjustified attack on the weakest and the working poor. Cutting basic social welfare rates by €8 per week for the second year in a row will have a devastating impact on people who rely on the State for income support. The Government has lost all sense of the fact that carers, widows, people with disabilities, single parents and the unemployed...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Excuse me.