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- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: Come on.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I strongly support Senator Cannon on this issue. It is unlikely the Minister will accept this recommendation because there are political aspects to it but at least this debate will signal to the incoming Government that this must be done in the Finance (No. 2) Bill. It unfairly singles out particular pension contributors and triggers them into this position simply because their employers...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: The Government now maintains it does not create a difficulty in principle if there are two deadlines when last year it claimed they needed to be the same. Will the Minister of State give the theoretical justification for this change of argument? I understand this provision was inserted primarily to produce a yield for the Revenue Commissioners and in order that the Government would have a...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for the explanation he has provided. I was very interested to learn that one can obtain interest in respect of overpayments. I shall re-examine my tax calculation to discover whether I received such interest. However, that is a very minor point of a personal nature. Despite his illuminating comments, the Minister of State did not answer one specific question I...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I welcome the fact that he responded. I inquired with regard to the philosophical change which occurred between last year and this.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: The Minister of State did not answer the question.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I support Senator Regan's recommendation and echo what Senator O'Toole said. There might well be a question of constitutionality if, for example, the disposition of a home and property is concerned in this business. I do not know about that. Again, I wish to ask the Minister a specific question and perhaps on this occasion he might find it possible to answer it. Are there any limitations...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I support what Senator Regan has said and I am not satisfied by the Minister of State's reply. I do not think he answered one element of the question I raised. The whole idea of attachment goes back much further than the 1980s. One can find it in novels by Charles Dickens. It was a feature of the Victorian era in Britain, where earnings and so on were attached. However, that does not...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: If a case is successful it will cost the State more money.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: Where does it say that?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: The Minister is not addressing the argument.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: We made it clear, Minister.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: That is most unfair.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I am sorry but the Minister is characterising me wrongly.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: What I asked was whether the entire income could be attached.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: He is not replying to what-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: I ask the Minister to point out where that is stated in the legislation.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: That is an insult to the House.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)
David Norris: That is a debt.