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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Does Revenue have expert customer care in-house?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Does it have IT electronic payments expertise in-house?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: When the legislation was being drafted, did the Department of Finance liaise with Revenue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Did Revenue have any hand, act or part in the drafting of the legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Did it foresee that there would be problems in terms of how payments would be made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: At any stage, was consideration given to the fact that many people would be hit with a payment in May and another payment for a full year in November?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Was there an acknowledgement that this was going to affect hard-pressed families?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Okay. For the large majority of people who form part of the negative equity generation the preferred modus operandi of payment is via debit or credit card. According to the demographics of what we know about debit and credit cards, there are almost 5 million held in this country. Retailers are concerned about Christmas. Whatever about that, people are concerned about the amount of money...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: That is per year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: That means that in the space of five months, the person would pay over €600.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: It is simple maths.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: There is also a data protection aspect.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: It is about time he fired back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: I am trying to get at the fact that the preferred choice by the Revenue Commissioners is a single debit authority option. The date on which the money will be taken out is 21 March, unless the taxpayer specifies an earlier date. I welcome that but I am struggling with another point and we need to convey it better. It is not the intention to take the money for the property tax by debit card...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: Ms Feehily said she was going to consider what we have said today. Will she sum up what the Revenue Commissioners is going to consider what it believes are the options for solutions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: People who are looking in will ask what the Revenue Commissioners have learned from today. Ms Feehily has said she will acknowledge problems that exist and will consider resolving them. What are the potential solutions?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the entitlement to contributory pension a person has if that person has ten continuous years of paid reckonable contributions from age 55 to 65, if previous legislation entitled a person with such a contribution history to a full contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48568/13]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: That is outrageous.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: They are all the one, are they?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Arthur Spring: How much did the FOI request that Deputy Boyd Barrett made cost to research?