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- Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of reports that at the Office of Public Works has acquired a property at Swords, County Dublin for the purpose of expanding the facilities of the National Museum, that the property has been acquired on a 20 year lease at â¬1 million per annum; if, in view of the depressed property market, an outright purchase of the property was...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Not where it is a national emergency.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Another one - 900 and counting.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I would like to be associated with all the tributes that have been paid to Tomás. While knowing of Tomás MacGiolla over a long period of time, I really got to meet him when we went on a joint visit arranged by Senator Eoghan Harris during Mary Robinson's presidential election campaign in 1990. The visit was to the foundry in Inchicore where my father and grandfather had worked as iron...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 13, line 5, after "ACT" to insert the following: "TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO A TAXPAYERS ADVOCATE OFFICE,". The purpose of this amendment, which I have proposed on previous occasions, is to have the remit of the Office of the Ombudsman extended to provide for a report in regard to taxpayers' rights and to have what exists in many countries, namely, a...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I advise the Minister to read his legislation. In the case of a restriction on losses, they can be carried forward indefinitely but there is a cap on the amount which can be utilised in any one year. That is the form of restriction which the Minister has introduced. It is not the loss, ultimately, of any losses for tax purposes which will arise. It is a restriction on the amount of the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I am reading the legislation.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: That would be helpful.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: One offsets the other.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that if the rate of corporation tax is 12.5%, means that the highest rate of corporation tax that they will suffer is 6.25%?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Ordinary taxpayers on the top marginal tax rate now pay well over 40% and well over 50% when PRSI is added and the pension levy, if they are public servants. The Minister is saying that whenever the banks begin to return to profitability out of the NAMA debacle, that only 50% of their profits will be subject to tax where they have accumulated losses. This is the kind of statement that makes...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: We have had a saga in our newspapers about people running off for expensive weekends at a time when the industry consists of many companies involved in the NAMA process - there are no individuals at this point, it is mostly companies involved in the process. All I am saying is that if people can afford such weekends, I hope neither they nor their companies are in receipt of recourse from the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: As I recall it, next week will be the first anniversary of an interview the Minister gave to the Financial Times while in London on and around St. Patrick's Day last year. The visit formed part of a tour of financial centres to discuss the situation in Ireland. The Minister will recall his interview with the Financial Times. He referred to the issue of cronyism in Ireland and the fact that...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister did not locate himself or his party? Which is the party of the developers? What political party do the developers support? To a person, they are almost all Fianna Fáil supporters. What was their principal bank? It was Anglo Irish Bank. Personalities in very senior positions associated with that bank were almost exclusively and publicly identified as Fianna Fáil...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: That was the Minister's phrase. He put crony capitalism in the international lexicon in respect of Ireland.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: While he is on his feet, can the Minister indicate why he introduced the term crony capitalism into the lexicon when he spoke with the Financial Times? That went around the world and that was the language he used to describe Ireland.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: In June the Minister is to get the report on the data he has requested various line Ministers to produce. Will he agree to publish the information and to publish the data in full at that time because there is no calculation of the overhang, except the various guesstimates of â¬7 billion to â¬8 billion? I ask the Minister to confirm he now suggesting that it will be for Professor Patrick...
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the prediction made by FÃS that an additional 87,000 workers will lose their jobs during 2010; her views on the FÃS prediction; the steps she will take to counter this trend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11360/10]