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Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I will confine my remarks to the first financial resolution. This levy, which could be properly described as Lenihan's levy, is the most dishonest aspect of the budget. It is described as a levy merely as a fig leaf to maintain the pretence that tax rates are not being increased. If the Government had any real integrity and was not interested in a sleight of hand public relations exercise,...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: I will conclude on this point. The 1% levy is misconceived. The Government should examine how it will impact on young people, including children, earning small sums of money to make ends meet in circumstances where no one could have envisaged they would fall into the tax net. Nonetheless, they will now be brought into the net by this levy.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Why tax a child doing a newspaper round?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: On one level, the Government takes from them——

Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Why are we not clearing up the mess that Fianna Fáil——

Financial Resolution No. 3: Income Tax (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is like "Back to the Future".

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: There is a degree of equity in the pensions proposal in Financial Resolution No. 9. However, it is interesting that the Government has failed to address certain pensions issues in the budget. There has been a considerable drop in pension values. Government policy over a number of years has been to encourage people to make proper provision for themselves upon retirement. There are pension...

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: She might also clarify what work has been done by the Department of Finance to indicate the impact this might have on savings.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: What about 2010?

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: What about 2010?

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Is the book wrong?

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (14 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, when meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, on the sidelines of the 63rd annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, he proposed an expansion of ties between Ireland and Iran in the areas of trade, technology, investment and the carrying out of joint projects; if his attention has been drawn to the...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Have they got back yet?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It is an untruth.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: One does not have to pay if one has a chauffeur-driven car. Ministers are exempt from the €200 charge because they are driven around the country.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Joe the plumber is in the Visitors Gallery.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Paragraph 32 of the scheme states that in order to promote the public interest, one or two non-executive directors can be appointed. In reply to Deputy Charles Flanagan, the Minister stated they are not to act in the public interest. Deputy Charles Flanagan had raised the fiduciary issue. Does the Minister agree if they are not to act in the public interest they have little purpose? Will...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister explain the reason behind his thinking when it comes to individual financial institutions covered under the scheme for presenting them with a panel from whom they can choose one or two individuals? Will the Minister agree it would be more appropriate in respect of a particular institution that he nominate the individual or individuals he deems appropriate? Did the...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: My next question has been raised already by colleagues but the Minister has not properly responded to it. The scheme has a provision which states the banks will not be allowed to make unwarranted charges on customers arising out of the guarantee. The obverse of this is that the banks can make warranted charges. Will the Minister explain his thinking behind this? To what extent will bank...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Alan Shatter: It could be a discrete amendment.