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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: If a country wants to change its corporation tax - I am sure there are areas in a country that might want to have a different corporation tax in a disadvantaged area - how difficult will it be for them to do that under this new system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Would there be an advantage for a company to be below threshold as well? When they are getting close to €750 million, could there be an advantage in that company staying below the threshold of €750 million? They could close down production to stay below the €750 million for that year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I will be brief. I welcome the delegation. It has been stated that multinational groups will deal with a single tax administration within the EU, a principal tax authority that will be a one-stop-shop. However, the common consolidated corporate tax base, CCCTB, will have the ability to drive every parent company out of the EU. If the parent company is outside the EU, it can then go to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: There would be no advantage or incentive to a parent company relocating to any EU state.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I note to Senator Nash that Fine Gael is having a very open and frank debate on water charges and everything that surrounds them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We will be making our decision in due course.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We have good leakers, if Senators will excuse the pun.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I am not quite sure what the Leader said yesterday about an official of the House who has spent almost 30 years as Clerk of the Seanad and who has given outstanding service to the Oireachtas, namely, Ms Deirdre Lane. I hope that at some stage in the future we will have a dedicated period to pay our tributes to one of the most outstanding Oireachtas officials. She led the House for nearly 30...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I ask the Leader also to provide time for a debate on funding for third level education. In my county, the GMIT campus in Castlebar is going through a very difficult period mainly because the parent college, GMIT in Galway, has bullied its way and taken all of the good courses, which it is not willing to share. I would like the Leader to arrange a debate with the Minister for Education and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the members of the deputations. Four areas were mentioned, namely, the cost of the awards, the number of awards, the legal costs and the false claims. Who do the witnesses believe should correlate that information to determine which of those factors is the reason for the increasing costs or if it a combination of all of them? I know a publican whose insurance cost annually was in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: Mr. Cribben is putting the blame fairly and squarely on the Department of Finance and particularly on the Central Bank, which is now allowing competition in terms of quoting for the trade or placing itself in an area of the country to allow much more competition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We asked similar questions of the Central Bank representatives when they were before this committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: We might be able to put-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Costs of Business Insurance: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)
Paddy Burke: -----some questions to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2016)
Paddy Burke: I ask the Leader to outline to the House how the expert report on domestic water charges will proceed. A joint committee has been established and the expert report from the committee will go to that committee. What will happen? When the joint committee makes its recommendations, will they be made to the Dáil or both Houses? We have no involvement in bringing forward a referendum, if...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Nov 2016)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank him for extending the new provisions to the self-employed. Many of those who are self-employed have suffered severe hardship over the past number of years, in particular those who downsized or went out of business. I have to agree with Senator Gavan on the redundancy clawback of two weeks per year. Many of those who are self-employed, in...
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paddy Burke: May Senators contribute after the Minister of State, or is it only the proposer of the amendment?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paddy Burke: Is she the only one?
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paddy Burke: That is unfair. Members are listening on the monitors. They are in their offices.