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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation of the concerns raised by the covered institution remuneration oversight committee in respect of the section dealing with pensions in its report of 27 February 2009; the practice identified in which cash allowances were paid to compensate for the effects of the pension cap imposed by the Finance Act 2006; and the...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should not talk to us about fairness. He does not understand the meaning of the word. This Government speaks in the House about hitting people who are earning €20,000. It claims that this is fair while it lets high-rollers off with paying little or no tax. It is just outrageous. The public has not bought that, for all that the Government's spin machines were in action over...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: There is no Green Party representative in the Chamber on a regular basis. This supplementary budget is savage in the manner in which it targets families and people on welfare and lets the better off completely off the hook. It will not be tolerated by the public. It is fundamentally unfair; it fails on the grounds of fairness. This budget is being introduced against the backdrop of all...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What the Government is doing will save money.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I am about to do that. The Government parties had choices regarding mortgage interest relief. They chose to hit families that are struggling to get by. The choice was to do that or examine the relief available to landlords.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Government had the choice to hit families or remove the relief currently available to landlords, but it chose to hit families over landlords. On the basis of the figures provided to us, there was potential to save €500 million by cutting tax relief for landlords but the Government chose to ignore that and hit ordinary families instead. There is no justification whatsoever for that....

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is right.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: How?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: There is one law for the rich and another law for the everybody else.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: If they want to be Irish citizens, they should pay their taxes here.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Why can the others not do that?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister was in bed on the night.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: It is a wonder then that the Minister did not wake up.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Exactly.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: We are certainly questioning the integrity of Government.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What is the Minister talking about?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Really.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is a joke.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is a joke. What is the Minister talking about?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is posturing again as if this is a debate on Dáil reform.