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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: With respect to the Secretary General, if this is the disclosure process that exists in all Departments and State agencies then it is quite likely that they are all contaminated. I mean that they are not above reproach. I refer to people who are, as a matter of form, involved in setting the terms of reference to investigate and in some instances to investigate themselves. I find it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Can I comment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Can we invite Tusla to attend on the same day as the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman. As members will know, I have an interest in the IBRC liquidation going back over the past year. On my recommendation, as a committee, we included in our last periodic report a recommendation to establish a committee of inspection within the liquidation. We discussed that it would include, for example, representatives from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have not seen correspondence between the plaintiff and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. He has copied what are a set of terms of reference under which he feels the case could be staged, which would involve the establishment of a committee of inspection. It suggests who would be included on that, namely, representatives of the Comptroller and Auditor General, a representative of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The terms of reference have been suggested by the plaintiff to me, which I assume are those he sent back to the Office of the Chief State Solicitor or the Department of Finance. We can rest assured that no case will be withdrawn until the committee of inspection is established.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It does not surprise me that the Comptroller and Auditor General has not heard about it because it is relatively hot off the press and it is probably in the legal domain at present. Irrespective of the plaintiff's case, I raised the matter in the Dáil yesterday and asked the Taoiseach about it but he could not answer the question. He told me that he would come back to me in writing on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman and members for the opportunity to discuss this matter. The introduction and implementation of a child tax credit or allowance of up to €1,654 per annum for each child up to a maximum of four, even where a worker does not have any tax liability, as is the case for many low-income workers, would be very progressive. A minimum wage worker with three children...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In the first instance, it is because this works in other countries. It is in place in the UK, the US, Canada and some other countries. In addition, we would be giving people the money directly by way of savings in terms of taxation or because, due to the structure of it, if somebody had no tax liability, it would in effect be a payment. This happens in Northern Ireland. We would be giving...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I would not because it is dealing with an anomaly in society whereby there are increasing costs for families, not just child care but a whole range of issues relating to raising children. The taxation system is used in a variety of different way. For example, one could argue that we are all subsidising the knowledge box in terms of corporation tax but, obviously, Marc MacSharry or Joe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As I said in my opening statement, I would like to see this given a level of priority similar to those other matters highlighted. It is the principle I would love to see embraced. That is why the document has no party logo, it was not written in a political context and when I published it in April, I sent it to all Members of the House, all committees and all Departments. I would love to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No, it is progressive. The minimum wage worker would have a gross income of €19,367 or, as I mentioned earlier, €18,958 net.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No. Those on the minimum wage would be 26% better off in terms of their net income. As a proportion of their income, it would be much less for a higher income but they would be getting the same amount. Let us say a Government was to commit €150 million to this. With 638,000 children, that would equate to approximately €240 per child. If one has three children and one's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, that occurs in other countries. Maybe it was Senator Conway-Walsh's choice of words, but she mentioned child benefit a minute ago. This is separate to child benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not proposing abolishing child benefit. That is separate. Everyone gets that, as it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I do not think so. As the Proclamation with which the Senator would be familiar states, we need to cherish all the children of the nation equally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have not. Obviously, there is a range of secondary benefits, especially the medical card, that many of us would argue need to be addressed. We did not include SUSI qualification. Senator Conway-Walsh will see in the other tables we included quite a number of secondary benefits in the analysis. For example, we include FIS. We did not include eligibility for SUSI grants but how SUSI is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely. I am not here today in that way. Much of my work might be highly partisan or highly political. This is not here to embarrass the Government or promote Opposition parties or anybody else to put forward particular proposals. It is merely that here is a principle I would love us to collectively embrace. Ideally, I would love to see something in the programme for Government, all...