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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The industry representatives had figures of 30% or 40%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Do they look in bins to see where the packages came from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The figures are substantial because the price differential is very large. Apparently, a person can buy cigarettes on the black market at a quarter or a fifth of the price in a shop. A shop may charge €10 for a packet of cigarettes that is sold for €2 or €3 on the black market. That is a major incentive for crime, as the Chairman mentioned. The penalties for bringing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Is that doable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: That is all we want to know. A site value tax relates to the income generation capacity of any site, either in the form of rental for a house, office block or factory. There should be a sensible economic connection with the piece of physical land, and it would be a fair basis for starting the collection of a tax. If there is income from land, there is an ability to pay tax from the income.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Both submissions make the same point about cuts rather than taxes. I am not saying there should not be any cuts, but I question whether there might be taxes. In order to pay a contribution for a service one has to have income. Income is the flow out of which taxes can be paid. When everything is in balance, as Mr. Ronan Lyons said in the previous submission, one can have a tax from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I am asking why they both make the same point. Here is a reason for suggesting their presumption is misplaced. They say it in two lines in both submissions. The submissions contain some good points about supporting investment and jobs through the tax system. Points Nos. 1, 2 and 3 under that heading are imaginative, creative and realistic. I come back, however, to the fundamental point...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The witnesses want a Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The Opera House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: What about borrowings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I welcome Mr. McDonnell and Dr. Seán Healy. I respect and acknowledge the reasoning and motivation of the submissions which are worthy and well thought out. I will put a few questions. In respect of the 46,000 women who are in the lacunae of having no pension entitlements, are there any men in an equivalent or identical situation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: There might have been men, who for reasons such as psychological damage may be unemployable and therefore would not have the credits. It is important to see if there are cases of men in these circumstances. Deputy Higgins raised the issue of property taxation and where payment of the amount calculated on the basis of taxation could be deferred. He pointed out that the deferral would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: May I suggest Chairman, that much of the 44% of the residential property that is mortgage free is owned by people who are retired and not earning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I acknowledge that. Most of the people who own those houses are retired and are not working. The country needs working people to generate incomes. One may argue for a special case allowance for people with child care costs and those out of a job. I think it was Dr. Healy who raised the issue of child care costs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Chairman, my last sentence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Child care is usual for children up to the age of ten or 12 years. There is also a high cost in maintaining older children. The children who are bigger physically eat more, need more clothes as they grow out of their clothes. They need to go to the dentist and may need glasses. Sometimes it is more expensive to meet their needs than it is to leave a child in the crèche. When there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: They are more expensive at that stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: They create rubbish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The Chairman cut me short. That underlines the imperative for getting debt write-down from our outside creditors.