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Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: We can look at it but I am not sure there is any scope for the Minister to do anything other than what is the current practice.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: What the Senators are asking would involve a change in the current law. The Revenue Commissioners are implementing the law as they see it.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: This section amends section 89 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003. The section grants relief at 90% in respect of the market value of agricultural property situated in the State where such property is comprised in a gift or an inheritance taken by a farmer. For the purposes of this section, agricultural property includes agricultural land situated in the State. To...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: This section makes three amendments to sections in the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, which deal with Revenue Commissioners' powers. The definition of "financial institution" has been aligned in a number of sections to include financial institutions authorised in another member state operating in Ireland under a passport arrangement. These institutions will now come under these provisions in...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: Paragraphs (g) to (i) amend section 906(a) which permits access by the Revenue Commissioners to information held by financial institutions, section 908(a) which enables them to obtain a District Court order to access information in a financial institution to enable them to investigate an offence and 908(b) which enables the Revenue Commissioners to apply to the High Court for an order...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: Two minor drafting errors have come to my notice and in accordance with Standing Order 131, I request the Cathaoirleach to instruct the Clerk to make two corrections in the Bill as follows: On page 167, lines 31 to 33, to delete ", shall be recoverable from the stock borrower" and in lines 37 to 39 to delete ", shall be recoverable from the repo buyer".

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: The levy will be introduced in separate legislation to be brought forward by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008 (Certified Money Bill): Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I cannot anticipate what might be in the Bill.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I thank Senator Donohoe for tabling this motion. I am taking it on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin. I was impressed with how the Senator marshalled the sub-committee——

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: ——and produced what I regard as a very important report which will frame the agenda for much, if not all, of next year. I have more than a passing interest in this topic and will facilitate further debate on it in any way I can. In the Dáil, we have decided on a regular — if possible, monthly — basis to have a debate on European issues. There are many European scrutiny reports...

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I agree with the Senator that we must engage in this debate on an ongoing basis. I sang from the same hymn sheet as him for many years when I was a member of the European affairs and the European scrutiny committees. Sometimes one thinks nobody listens to what one says, but they do. Here is the primary place where that debate should take place. I will convey Senator Donohoe's views and...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I was not aware that the issue raised by the Senator still continues to run. If the school principal in my school had not taken a hands on approach to supervising the contract when the school was being refurbished a few years ago, many issues similar to those the Deputy raised would have come to light. I am replying to this on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science. It is...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I will certainly convey the Senator's concerns to the Minister.

Seanad: Capitation Grants. (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I am afraid I have been around the education sector for long enough to remember the genesis of the arrangement to which Senator Phelan referred. I am fairly familiar with the issue. There are 56 fee-charging second level schools in the State, of which 21 are Protestant, two are inter-denominational and one is Jewish. The rest of the fee-paying schools have a Catholic ethos. The Minister...

Seanad: Capitation Grants. (19 Dec 2008)

Pat Carey: I will be happy to convey that request to the Minister.

Parliamentary Questions: Motion (27 Jan 2009)

Pat Carey: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14 June, 2007, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Foreign Affairs Tánaiste and...

Written Answers — National Statistics: National Statistics (27 Jan 2009)

Pat Carey: The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Figures are published for each county and each social welfare office. The most recent information is for December 2008. The table contains the number of persons signing on in...

Written Answers — National Statistics: National Statistics (27 Jan 2009)

Pat Carey: The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Figures are published for each county and each social welfare office. The most recent information is for December 2008. The following table contains the number of persons signing...

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Pat Carey: I propose the extension.

Allocation of Time: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Pat Carey: I move: That notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, oral questions to Members of the Government shall conclude at 4 p.m. today; the proceedings on No. a17, on a Supplementary Order paper — statements on expenditure control and economic strategy — shall commence at 4 p.m. and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 4.40 p.m. today, and the following...