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Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: They are the figures.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We need to consider from where the figure of €400 million might have come.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I will be generous to Sinn Féin by attempting to explain from where the figure came. The figure relates to the additional income that would be brought in by the universal social charge if the health and social levies were rolled out.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I will examine that. During the general election campaign, Sinn Féin said again and again that it would abolish the universal social charge and pay for it by introducing a third rate of income tax. According to figures published by Sinn Féin - in fairness, they were costed by the Department of Finance - the third rate of income tax would bring in €400 million per annum. The Department...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The motion that is on the floor of the House has changed to some degree.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Where is the reference in the motion, which has changed since Sinn Féin peddled their claims during the general election, to the third rate of income tax?

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We now see the realisation dawning on Sinn Féin that its figures do not add up.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: It is now proposing to reinstate-----

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: -----the health and income levies that were brought in by the last Government.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We should examine those levies and the detail of what Sinn Féin is proposing. The detail of the income levy is that somebody who earns between €15,000 and €75,000 pays 2% of their income. The detail of the health levy is that somebody who earns between €26,000 and €75,000 pays 4% of their income. The cumulative total is 6%. That is the total that needs to be paid when the two...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: If this programme were implemented, Sinn Féin would be reintroducing the old income and health levies which were abolished when the universal service charge was introduced.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The cumulative effect of those levies would be to require somebody on the average industrial wage to pay 6% of his or her income. How can that be reconciled with the Sinn Féin rhetoric of abolishing the universal social charge and taxing the rich so the working poor do not have to pay? The reality of what Sinn Féin is proposing is not the abolition of the universal social charge - it is...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason Sinn Féin did not want to say it then, and the reason it is saying what it is saying here tonight, is that its figures do not add up.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I heard Deputy Adams say on the floor of this House that the universal social charge brings in €400 million. That is wrong.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: This year, the universal social charge will bring in €3.2 billion.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Next year, the universal social charge will bring in €4 billion.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, spoke about the regular references to the representation of elites and ordinary people. I do not represent any elite.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not from an elite.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I came into politics by choice. I am proud to represent the people of Dublin Central. I will represent them with dignity and honesty.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I will tell Deputies what those people want. They do not want to pay the universal social charge any more than it needs to be levied on them. They want their schools and hospitals to be open.