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Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has been dealing with the matter. Both the Minister and the Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht have recently met local representatives to discuss it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The non-use of motor vehicles Bill seeks to amend motor tax legislation to provide for new arrangements for making declarations that vehicles are off the road. The heads of the Bill were approved by the Government on 22 May and it is expected that the legislation will be published this session.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It will be brought before the House next year.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is expected early next year.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The legislation is being worked on by the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Alex White, and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, and is expected to be brought before the House early next year.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Investment Properties (29 Nov 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the case regarding investment properties in Turkey to which the Deputy refers. My Department has received a number of representations on the issue. The Irish Embassy in Ankara has been asked to raise the issue and has written to the relevant Turkish Authorities detailing the concerns of Irish citizens. However, the Deputy will be aware that the role of the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department has a very modest capital budget for 2012 of €4.4m, which is used for administrative capital purposes, such as accommodation and ICT infrastructures. Expenditure at the end of October was behind profile due to the decision to defer a number of projects, mainly in the area of architectural services. It is likely that these savings will continue to year-end. The focus...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Court Orders (4 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Under the Passport Act 2008 the Minister for Foreign Affairs must be satisfied before issuing a passport to a child that each person who is a guardian of the child consents to the issue of a passport to the child. The enforcement of court orders preventing travel from the state in circumstances where a passport is not required is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 126 together. I have set out in a following table details of Irish aid spent in Uganda over the past 5 years which includes expenditure on the bilateral country programme and the additional funding provided to Non-governmental or Civil Society Organisations for their programmes in Uganda. The table also includes a breakdown of the funding disbursed...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Ireland, and our partners in the European Union, share the widespread concerns about the difficult situation faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community in Uganda and certain other countries in the region. We are particularly concerned about developments in relation to the draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which was presented as a private member’s Bill, and is...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Very touching.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I move:

Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We have heard some reasonable arguments today and some ridiculous ones. The minimum any Member of this House should do is at least read what is in the budget proposals before making a contribution on them. This measure is being introduced because the Government believes it is unfair that people who get a severance payment of over €200,000 should get a more favourable tax regime.

Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I move the following Financial Resolutions:

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not know what we did at all before Deputy Donnelly was elected.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: No, not us. The Deputy is wrong about that. The people who destroyed the country are sitting a lot closer to him. They destroyed the country because they pursued an economic policy which is closer to what Deputy Donnelly has been advocating than what we have advocated.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us deal first with the issue of preparing alternative budgets. I and my colleagues spent 14 years in opposition from the time of the defeat of the then rainbow Government in 1997 until our re-election to Government in 2011. In that 14 years we prepared, each year, alternative budget proposals. We did so seriously. We went to the Department of Finance and asked it to cost various...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That is confirmed in reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy Spring last week. Coming in here at this late hour and offering us very erudite reasons why it could not be done and why one could only do it from last Saturday is a load of old nonsense. The fact of the matter is that none of the Opposition parties took the job of Opposition seriously enough to do a serious job of...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I regret that because it has also diminished the quality of the budget debate today. It means, for example, that Sinn Féin announced that it could raise €800 million through a wealth tax. However, somebody spotted that they announced the same last year and proposed that it would include pensions. It does not apparently include pensions this year, but the figure is still...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It also explains why we get proposals from Deputy Boyd Barrett who seems to think that the entire €3.5 billion budgetary adjustment can be made up by planting some additional taxes on multinational companies. Of course, it fits the kind of juvenile approach that Deputy Boyd Barrett has to politics and to economic proposals. Multinationals are bad. They are big, bad capitalist entities...