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Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (4 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the 2008 Self Assessed Income Tax return of the named person was received on 9th December 2009. The due date for this return was 31st October 2009. Large quantities of Income Tax returns received before the due date are currently being processed in order that taxpayers, who lodged their returns on time, will receive their Notice of Assessment...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together. I announced in the Budget that a carbon tax at a rate of €15 per tonne is being introduced on fossil fuels. The tax was applied to petrol and auto-diesel with effect from midnight, 9 December 2009; and will apply from 1 May 2010 to kerosene, marked gas oil (also known as 'green diesel' or 'agricultural diesel'), liquid petroleum gas...

Written Answers — Mortgage Debt: Mortgage Debt (4 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 and 129 together. The Deputy will be aware of the supports in place for those homeowners who are in difficulty with their mortgage repayments, including the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears, the Mortgage Interest Subsidy Scheme and the services provided by the Money Advice Budgeting Services, all of which I have spoken about extensively in this House...

Finance Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Finance Bill 2010 ensures that all sectors play their part in the critical task of stabilising the public finances. We know from our experience of recent decades that unless we restore order to the public finances, our economy will not recover. The extraordinary budgetary adjustments the Government has introduced during this economic...

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will be there.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It was abolished last year.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: That is defamatory.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Is the Deputy suggesting the banks should lend at the rate they were lending?

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The loans have not transferred yet. We were not told differently by the IMF. I am sorry but the Deputy is not correct.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There are no revelations. What revelations does the Deputy mean?

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy would have let the banks collapse in 2008.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I addressed it in the NAMA legislation.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There is a crock of gold at the end of most of our rainbows.

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It had no reservations about NAMA at all.

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to share time with the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Power.

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "--- commends the Government for its actions to restore the public finances and for its difficult but necessary measures to reduce the public service pay bill; --- notes that public servants have made a substantial contribution towards the necessary reduction in public expenditure, including...

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am extraordinarily conscious of the need for fairness in the sacrifices we have all had to make in dealing with this most acute financial and economic crisis.

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: In the past 18 months, the Government has had to make very difficult decisions. In doing so, we have done all we can to protect the lower paid and those on social welfare. Those who earn most have paid most.

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: For example, in the last three budgets a clerical officer on the mid-point of the scale has seen their net pay reduce by less than 8%. The assistant secretary has seen an average 24% cut in net pay over the same period, and deputy secretaries have seen a pay reduction of 27%. I have circulated to Deputies a page which shows very clearly the progressive nature of the reductions. Of all...