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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Deputies and Senators receive an accommodation allowance. However, for those Ministers of State or Ministers who stay in the same hotel as me, not only do they get the full cost of the hotel written off their tax bill, but they also get additional costs written off. When one inquires as to the additional costs, the answer is that these are laundry costs, etc. This shows that the tax code...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There are abuses. Nobody knows who is getting the dual abode allowance. The tax code is very transparent in other areas but we do not know which Ministers are availing of it. Why is it that Ministers who have houses can get an unvouched allowance of €6,500 from the Revenue? It is unbelievable. This issue is a hobby-horse of mine. Getting rid of the dual abode allowance will not...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not allowing the Minister of State to insinuate that I am in some way perpetrating a lie. He can show his income slip to whoever he wants. I have no intention of looking at what he earns or what anyone else earns. What a Minister of State earns is public knowledge. I do not think many people will shed a tear for any politician who earns about €100,000 in gross income. I do...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, if he wants to pluck on the heartstrings of the Irish people, I think he is plucking on the wrong strings. He may feel that he is entitled to it and that is fine and that is to pay for his job at the moment------

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My amendment is about the fairness of taxation measures and why the local property tax should be repealed. I will say again that Sinn Féin is committed to repealing this property tax if we are in government following the next election. The Minister of State may have a crystal ball and people may hope that their parties are returned, and that is fine. It is our commitment to abolish it...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: None of us knows what will happen in the future. However, there has been an unfair impetus put on the Irish people at the lower level. The Minister of State refers to reports from independent studies and so on, but he fails to mention the names of the studies. For example, the ESRI is one such study. The Minister of State should talk about the ESRI study and not rely on what happened...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is pulling me back in a direction the Chairman has asked me not to take, but I am saying that any politician who is looking for sympathy and who is earning above €100,000 is not going to get it. People at the higher levels of income may have taken reductions in gross pay, or reductions in net income as a result of higher taxes and so on, but the point is that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (28 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total salary of the chair of the Teaching Council; if he receives more than one salary for the role, that is, from the Department of Education and Skills and the Teaching Council. [51271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (28 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cross-Border corridors he is lobbying to have included on the Trans-European Transport Networks, TEN-T, comprehensive network; the cross-Border planning in which he has engaged with his counterpart in the Six Counties to secure maximum funding from TEN-T; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51158/13]

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There has been much talk about the recent top-up payment scandal in the Central Remedial Clinic and possibly in other charities. The first function of the Charities Regulatory Authority is to increase public trust and confidence in the management and administration of charitable trusts and organisations. Will the Tánaiste agree that the commencement order for the Charities Act 2009...

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We know that when the banks did not provide detailed information in the past, they got this State into serious trouble. It is important to reassure every Member that the review shows that the banks are adequately capitalised.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: A debate on the information contained in the asset quality review of the banks.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking under the Order of Business that Government time be used to schedule such a debate.

Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: What about the board of the charities regulatory authority?

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Instruction to Committee (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Similarly, we received clarification on the matter from officials in the Department whose co-operation is appreciated. They informed us of the effect the error would have on procedures. While it is not desirable that the House amend other legislation through the Credit Reporting Bill, Sinn Féin does not propose to stand in the way of a technical amendment to the Central Bank...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State will be well aware that I tabled a number of amendments on Committee Stage but I have decided to retable only a few of them on Report Stage, one of which is connected to this issue but is not being taken with this amendment. There is a deficiency in the legislation regarding the issue of moneylenders. I recall the Minister of State's remarks on Committee Stage in terms...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5:In page 15, line 44, to delete "specified, €2,000" and substitute "specified, €125".

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, it is the one that proposes the figures of €125. As I said, there may be justification to have a specific section in the legislation and not reduce the threshold to €125 for all credit institutions, and the Minister mentioned the question of a discriminatory approach in this respect. Moneylenders are included in the Bill, as are credit unions and financial institutions,...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Moneylending is a risky business. The APR set for each individual moneylender, as specified by the Central Bank, takes in the risk, but it is not the case that everyone is defaulting. The fact that someone is calling to the person's door on a weekly basis is the encouragement to repay. These high interest rates occur because of the administration end and the fact that someone must call to...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the commitment to the review but I will be pressing the amendment.