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FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Very good.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Please allow the Minister to answer the questions.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Please allow the Minister to respond to a whole series of questions as we have only three minutes left.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Please allow the Minister to apply.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I will allow a brief question from Deputy Creighton who has not contributed.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: It being 9.20 p.m., I must put the question in accordance with the order of the Dáil of this day.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: There are many speakers looking to contribute to the section.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I ask Deputies to be as brief as possible.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I call Deputy Ciarán Lynch and ask him to be brief.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: As only ten minutes are available, I would like to leave some time for the Minister to respond.

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Does Deputy Rabbitte wish to speak again?

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: As it is now 10.10 p.m. I am required to put the question in accordance with the Order of the Dáil of this day.

Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 18: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the options available to persons (details supplied) in terms of securing a placement for their child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45881/10]

Written Answers — Local Government Charges: Local Government Charges (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 264: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in relation to the €200 per annum tax on properties other than the family home, if he will consider reducing the current late payment penalty of €20 per month in view of the serious property devaluation and rental difficulties being experienced by many investment property owners; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I have listened to many budget speeches in this House over the years but none was more disingenuous and more dishonest than the one I listened to yesterday. The House listened in stunned silence and many of the media commented upon that fact. They listened in stunned silence to the last will and testament of a disastrous Government. A decade of mismanagement and incompetence has led our...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: -----and to protect education.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: They protected education by charging €50 for a primary school child to get to school in my rural constituency. They charge €350 for a secondary school pupil to get to his or her school. They charge the children to get to the school and then reduce the services available in the school when they reach the school door.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Teddy Roosevelt said of America, "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in". That should have been the principle that characterised this budget, but in the opposite principle was at its heart. The template of the budget was unfairness. We were told that the new universal social charge was a proposal to simplify...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: In accordance with the order of the Dáil of this day the session stands suspended for 60 minutes.

Visit of Foreign Delegation. (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Before proceeding with Business I wish on my own behalf and on behalf of the Members of Dáil Éireann to offer a Cead Mile Fáilte, a most sincere welcome to a delegation comprising parliamentarians from State Legislatures across the United States of America, as well as parliamentarians from the Republic of Rwanda and the United Kingdom. I wish you all a most pleasant visit to our country...