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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is true.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in amendment No. 3.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will respond to the Minister's points and will not drag the matter on indefinitely. These amendments, both those that were accepted and those that were not, all point to one of the key issues, the universal social charge. Let us be clear - this is one of the measures that has hurt people most and devastated their income, what they take home in pay. Therefore it is worthy of discussion....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 10, lines 20 to 23, to delete all words from and including “, or” in line 20 down to and including “€60,000” in line 23 and substitute “and has an aggregate income that exceeds €65,000”.This is an attempt to shift the balance of taxation from those who cannot afford it to those who can. The universal...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That confirms the estimate of the cost we included in our pre-budget submission of removing the universal social charge from those earning under €65,000. We said it would cost €2.5 billion which is slightly higher than what the Minister is suggesting, although I thank him for the confirmation. However, we also pointed out that by putting extra taxes in whatever form - the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Minister cutting them?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does one pay while on social welfare? The Minister has not answered that question. How does one pay if one cannot pay one's mortgage?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is utterly untrue.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's tax policy has not helped them one bit.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So mansions with huge gardens do not get valued for property tax. Millionaires get off.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Government's tactics?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Prior to the adjournment of this debate I was asking the Minister to answer at some point this evening the question that his Government has failed to answer despite this issue being debated across the country and to some extent, although severely curtailed, in this House. How are people in mortgage distress who are unable to pay their mortgages supposed to pay this charge? They simply...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know and I am pointing out that it is not, as the Government claims, a property tax because a considerable amount of the property of the very wealthy will not be taken into account. It is just a tax on the family home. Why does the Minister not just call it that? It will penalise people in a brutal and cruel way. We will discuss the details as we move through the Bill in the short time...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has made a mockery of it already. What is the point?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a farce.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What have you heard?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could remove the guillotine.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Government should be utterly ashamed of itself for what it is doing and the way in which it is trampling on the democratic process. At the best of times, huge numbers of people in this country have little respect for politics and for this institution. What the Government is doing, contrary to the promises it made prior to taking office, is bringing this institution into further...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----