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Tax Code. (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce measures to ensure that persons living here, but who are non-resident for tax purposes, make some contribution to the Exchequer; his views on the introduction of a flat fee for tax exiles along the lines of a similar measure introduced in the UK in recent years; if he has studied and will comment on the application of this...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to instances in which landowners or property developers were seeking planning permission or land rezoning with the intention, not of building, but of inflating the value of the land before the associated loan is transferred to the National Asset Management Agency; his views on this development; if he foresees...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated for the State in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 through the taxation of motor vehicles in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45281/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children awaiting hearing tests per Health Service Executive region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45267/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason universal newborn hearing screening is not available at hospitals here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45268/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when universal newborn hearing screening will be available in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45269/09]

Written Answers — Assisted Human Reproduction: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to implement the recommendations of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction; when she will publish legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45563/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Regulation: Health Service Regulation (8 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce regulation and licensing for crisis pregnancy agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45562/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (8 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of State boards, agencies, regulators or other bodies under his remit; the cost of these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46022/09]

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (8 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of State boards, agencies, regulators or other bodies under his remit; the cost of these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46024/09]

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: : Proinsias de Rossa never took money off the poor.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I refer to the Minister's speech where he said that recent CSO data shows that 44% of cross-Border shoppers buy alcohol. This assumes that 56% do not buy alcohol and it presupposes that some people's motivation for going across the Border is primarily to buy alcohol. I do not think it warrants the measure produced here. There are other ways of tackling the tide or stemming the flow across...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: -----with a mortgage and children to be able to live any kind of a decent life in this country? Is this what this Republic has been reduced to? It is an absolute shame.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: It is a bit surreal to see-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: -----Fianna Fáil so silent on this matter.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: I refer to the effect the carbon tax will have on a public sector employee earning €30,000 a year whose income will be reduced by €1,500.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: The effect of the carbon tax on vulnerable, low paid people will be more pronounced as a result of the cuts that have been effected. We want the Government to do something in real terms for them. The budget is predicated on reducing the incomes of the low paid. The introduction of the carbon tax without mitigating its effect on those on low incomes is inequitable. I would like the...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: This has to be addressed in concrete terms, not in nebulous or airy-fairy terms.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: This is about real people whose incomes are minuscule and the Minister is further marginalising them and cutting them off through imposition of these taxes. The Green Party Ministers do not realise it because they are on another planet. They do not inhabit the real world. There are people in the real world outside these walls who have been put to the pin of their collar by Ministers who...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Seán Sherlock: They should have a reality check. We do not oppose the carbon tax but we do not want people on low incomes to be screwed to the wall.