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Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I had enough to do as Minister for Finance.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As Deputy Doherty knows, a service is available in the Department and I am not aware of a request made for the service. My information is that 40% of the requests for the use of this service on costings has come from Deputy Doherty's party and these requests have been facilitated through the Department. There is no difficulty with the Department providing costings and this is important. It...

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Of course that appetite for reform is displayed in the four year plan and in fairness all the parties contributed to the chapter dealing with fiscal reform. So there is all-party agreement on that important issue. However, the word "renegotiation" is being used all the time and it may become a semantic issue in the general election campaign. Of course the reality is that the rates applied...

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy will be happily canvassing in the constituency and may provide some cover; perhaps she could organise an international pair for me on the same day.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The case needs to be made and it will require considerable diplomatic activity because it will require the agreement of the other member states. That is the second issue of fundamental importance; this cannot be negotiated on the basis that Ireland is looking for this uniquely. It can be negotiated on the basis that the other member states agree that the current arrangements impose an...

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It was not on offer.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Of course one puts the question but if it is not on offer, one has to borrow. The money was required to fund the Deputy's salary.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I did not say we did not make a demand; I said it was not negotiable. There is a distinction.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Of course, we raised these issues but they were not negotiable because the rates were already fixed.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It is not, if the Deputy were to listen.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 128(1) of the Standing Orders Relative to Public Business, directs that the Finance Bill 2011 be recommitted, in respect of amendments Nos. 6 to 17, inclusive, to a Committee of the whole House.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: That decision came before any discussion with the Independents.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Government meeting was on the Tuesday and the backbenchers were in total agreement.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am thankful for the general welcome for the provision on bankers' bonuses. The Government also looked closely at the social charge. Deputies will appreciate that with the pressure of negotiations, arrangements were arrived at and when we evaluated those arrangements, it was clear there was an unintended benefit to the self-employed in the budgetary arrangements and there was a particular...

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Let people understand that the party that says it defends the poorest in this society, for its own guff machine to work properly, insists on advocating this sort of solution to this complex problem.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: To get the cheap headline that his party craves all the time-----

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: No, the Deputy said-----

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We are providing that bonuses of €20,000 that are paid to low-paid employees will be taxed in the normal way-----

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: -----like the bonuses of all other taxpayers.

Finance Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Jan 2011)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy is advocating that low-paid workers, simply because-----