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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form since 2008 the total amounts drawn down by Ireland for the school milk scheme and the school fruit scheme; the number of schools and pupils which benefit from the scheme per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44547/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Division (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine hearing on 4 November 2014 in which a person (details supplied) stated that there was a risk of financial corrections being imposed by the European Commission as a result of commonage under-grazing, the amount of the financial correction measures being imposed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Issues (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress of proposed by-laws in respect of canals; if she has engaged with the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland regarding the proposed by-laws; if her attention has been drawn to its concerns on this matter, particularly in relation to providing an incentive to use canals and develop tourism potential of the canals,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State should also speak to the amendments up to amendment No. 16.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Amendment No. 14 proposes to delete the words "and is not resident elsewhere". What is the effect of that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State saying they can be tax resident in the United States and resident here?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The income we apply based on the definition of A as outlined on page 21 in paragraph (2B)(b)(i) is the income, profits and gains for the tax year that arise in this State.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is the definition of gains those gains from-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: What about the profits?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The income is obviously just direct income.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Amendment No. 13 includes the words "and is not resident elsewhere". That will apply for tax years up until 2014 but in respect of 2015 those words will be deleted. If it was never envisaged that this should be the case in the legislation, why are we inserting it for 2014 and not removing it for 2015 also?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: That does not answer my question but I will move on. The Minister of State said that amendment No. 16 is technical in nature and that subsection (5) is being deleted. Can he clarify what is provided in subsection (5) and the effect of its deletion?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The effect of amendments Nos. 1 and 2 is to remove the upper limit.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Apologies, yes, amendments Nos. 11 and 12.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Why does the Department and the Government believe it is necessary to remove the upper limit of €0.5 million for this tax reduction to these employees?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I suggest the downside to doing this is the State will suffer a loss of tax revenue. What SARP allows for at this time is for an upper limit of €0.5 million. For employees who earn up to €0.5 million, 30% of their income can be written off for taxation purposes and the lower limit is €75,000. Currently, the available amount of income is €425,000 but the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State gave effective tax rate figures. Could he provide clarity in respect of tax applying to an income of €0.5 million and €1 million? How much less tax would a person earning €1 million who avails of SARP pay compared to an Irish executive earning the same amount working in a company in Ireland? This provision represents tax forgone. The Minister is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: In terms of the last figure he gave, the Minister of State is saying to someone that we will cut their tax bill by €150,000 if they come to this country.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: There is no concrete evidence that those who avail of SARP would not have come here in any event, that their relevant employer would not have brought them here. We are talking about a handful of individuals - as opposed to thousands of people who have flooded to our shores as a result of this measure - whose companies are located here. There is no guarantee that they would not have come...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I am sticking to the amendments.