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Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will focus on two aspects of this group of proposals. Like the Fine Gael Party, the Labour Party proposed the abolition of the air travel tax. While I acknowledge that the Government has made a move in that direction by reducing the tax and has applied some conditionality to its application, this is one of the taxes, the disincentive effect of which is as much the fact that it is in place...

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: These resolutions deal with the abolition or phasing out of a batch of reliefs, the abolition of most of which were recommended by the Commission on Taxation. In general, the Labour Party agrees with the removal of many of those reliefs, particularly in the circumstances in which we find ourselves. However, I have an issue with regard to the abolition of two of the reliefs. The first is...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the budget for 2010, the Minister for Finance announced a fairly modest measure whereby tax exiles would pay a levy to the Irish State. This was subject to a number of fairly generous conditions, and the tax exiles would have an income in excess of €1 million per year and property worth more than €5 million. To date, not a single cent has been collected from that levy. In reply to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a very interesting reply as it is quite clear the Government and the Taoiseach has not given a second thought to the issue of tax exiles since this time last year, when that budget was introduced. This is a Government presiding over a two-tier society, treating one group of people earning more than €1 million per year and who pay no tax to this State with one set of laws and asking...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: At the same time, tax exiles who do not pay income tax to the State have not yet paid a single cent of the amount that was announced last year. The Taoiseach is presiding over two laws, one for tax exiles and another for people dependent on social welfare payments.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What about income tax?

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy Brendan Howlin.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The arrogance of Fianna Fáil knows no bounds. It is an arrogance which comes from being in Government for too long - in Government for the past 14 years and for 22 out of the past 24 years. It is an arrogance which is expressed most eloquently by the Taoiseach himself and we got a fine example of it earlier this morning. That arrogance says to us that it does not matter what Fianna Fáil...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has told us at the same time that there is no surrender nor loss of sovereignty in the deal and that it complies with our Constitution. That is an arrogance that has now fired the first shots of its general election campaign and which demonstrates that Fianna Fáil wants to fight it on its distorted version of what Opposition parties are saying. I advise the Taoiseach that he...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yesterday's budget was the most severe we have ever seen, but it did not sound like it, because in his budget speech, the Minister managed to avoid announcing most of the bad news by occasionally referring to the details in the accompanying budget documentation - a victory for tone over content. It is, therefore, a budget that will take some time to sink in. The Taoiseach gives the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 19 January 2010, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the person (details supplied) has still not received a decision on their appeal which was lodged on 16 October 2009, 14 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46541/10]

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Before we deal with any of the business today, we need to get clarity from the Government with regard to its own future. On 22 November the Green Party announced that it intended to withdraw from Government after the budget and the associated financial legislation was passed, and that there would be a general election at the end of January.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach subsequently said it was his intention to dissolve the Dáil when the budgetary measures had been enacted and that therefore there would be an election, presumably, in February. From news reports this morning it would appear that the Green Party Members have changed their minds again and have now found a new basis on which to prolong the life of the Fianna Fáil-led Government.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the exact position here? When will the Government be brought to a conclusion? When will the general election-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Can the Tánaiste tell us to what planet the Green Party Members are wired today?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a serious-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We have a new date for the general election, called 2011. We know from experience-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that when the Government states 2011, it usually means the end of 2011.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is opposed to guillotining the debate on the Social Welfare Bill at 2 p.m. today. It is bad enough that this Government is cutting the payments and allowances that are being made to people who are blind, widows, people who are out of work, people with disabilities and people who are caring for members of their families. It is bad enough that those cuts are being brought in...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: For example, the one Deputy Shortall highlighted yesterday whereby working widows and widowers are being hit three times in three different ways by three different measures in this-----