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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I note the Minister's commitment to carry out a review of the mortgage interest supplement and based on that, I will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, before section 3, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 3.—The Courts Service is required automatically to notify the Minister of upward or any changes in maintenance orders.".

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, before section 3, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 3.—The Civil Registration Act 2004 is amended— (a) in section 19, by the deletion of subsection (6)(g), (b) by the deletion of section 22 and the substitution therefor of the following section: 22.—(1) This section applies without prejudice to the general duty on both parents to...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I accept the Minister is genuine when he says he will wait for the report of the Law Reform Commission. On that basis I will withdraw the amendment. Nonetheless, this issue needs to be addressed and sooner rather than later. That was the purpose of the amendment in its entirety, to bring about the closing of a situation which, to say the least, is undesirable. I know the Minister is...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, before section 3, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 3.—Section 257(a) of the Principal Act is deleted and the following paragraph substituted therefor: "(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €5,000 (in the case of an employer) or not exceeding €3,000 (in the case of any other person) or imprisonment for a term not...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, before section 3, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 3.—Section 198 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3D): "(3E) The payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable by a person in respect of his or her residence will be paid to this person on the day it is due...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: The sum of €510 million is a hell of a lot of money, bearing in mind that the tax compliance rate is 88%. All the people who are making money from rental income should be paying tax.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: They should be assessed and pay their tax. While it is good that the compliance rate is 88%, this suggests 12% of people are not compliant. Given the cost of €510 million, one wonders how many of the 95,000 recipients are renting properties from those landlords who are among the 12% of non-compliant persons. In the context of budgetary changes, it is helpful to know these statistics....

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I believed there was more distance between it and the Department. In any event, I found the board very efficient and good at providing advice sought by public representatives for constituents. Why are all tenancies not registered with the PRTB, as stated by the Minister? If the State is paying €510 million per annum, it would be very helpful to know the PPS numbers of the landlords. It...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: It covers private residential tenancies.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I support Senator McFadden's amendment. Recently, people who gave evidence at a committee rightly encountered problems with the media afterwards. It is bad enough that a family must bury a son or daughter. We are discussing someone who takes a year out - economic necessity might not allow for that now - to go to Australia or America, has a tragedy befall him or her and arrives home in a...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: The Minister has met the families and knows precisely what they are requesting. I would not for a second propose something that involved us in the complexities of citizenship. We shall come to that or related aspects when we discuss amendment No. 15. There are significant issues to be addressed. The Minister knows exactly what the families want and if it is reasonable or practicable,...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: I shall bear that in mind for amendment No. 15.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Michael McCarthy: One always finds the guy who does not want houses built in rural areas is the one with the nice little house tucked into a little green field on the side of a hill. It is the same with social welfare fraud. While I accept fraud deserves to face the full rigours of the justice system, I always ask those who go on about it their views on tax evasion. Tax evasion is as serious a crime as...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: We now know the bank guarantee scheme was absolutely calamitous for the State. At the time it was put in place there were many economic, banking and financial views and opinions offered, but in the sea of information and technical language one view was excoriated and the person who expounded it was attacked relentlessly by the Minister for Finance and various members of the Government. He...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: Rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: The Senator's party is up three points for bankrupting the economy. Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: That is utter rubbish.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: Some €34 billion. That is simple enough.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Michael McCarthy: Rubbish.