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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked several questions.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the last question. The Minister of State said we have put €20 billion into the banks. That investment is now worth €8 billion. Is that not because he sold our share in the Bank of Ireland for a song? Why is it his Government's strategy to use our money to nurse the banks back to health and then sell them for nothing to private interests rather than holding on to them...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The famous rules.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We submitted it to the Department of Finance. It referred to increasing the effective rate of corporation tax to 15% which would bring in €5 billion, €2.5 billion could be raised on income tax, a financial transaction tax-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, on the top 5%, namely, those earning over €100,000, by increasing the effective tax rate.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And a wealth tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The Minister must be kidding. The table, which I will provide for him if he wants it, shows people earning €4 million and €5 million at the top rate will pay an effective rate of 62% and people on €100,000 will pay an effective rate of 33%. If we have a sliding scale going from one to the other we can raise €2.5 billion. I will show the Minister the table.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the poor.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the rich.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: State to state.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not support this measure. This discussion, however, gets to the heart of matters. I welcome the fact that we are, at least, having this discussion. How we manage, or mismanage, these funds will dictate much of the country's future, our ability to stimulate the economy and create employment, which we all say we want to happen. I agree with the Minister of State when he says this was...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What we do with the funds is critical. It is shameful that the fund is now depleting and we are not able to replenish it, because we are paying interest on the debt that has been unloaded onto the back of the State. Next year, we will pay €9.1 billion in interest on a debt that is, for the most part, not ours. I do not accept the trade-off the Minister of State presents between...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State please repeat that?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the question but please repeat the reply.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality that Fianna Fáil's miraculous conversion on the road to righteousness and political transparency is not the issue.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those double standards are not the issue. The Government promised no less than a democratic revolution in how we do business in the House.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not only betraying promises he made to the families of those with disabilities and promises made by the Labour Party on child benefit; he is now betraying the promise to have a new kind of politics. Will the Taoiseach please allow a debate on the Social Welfare Bill? It will seriously affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of families in the State. He should allow us to...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to add my appeal to the Taoiseach to remove the guillotine on the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. These issues are too important and touch too many lives to truncate the debate on the Bill in the way he intends to. There is a way out of this that is reasonable and fair which is to defer the debate on the property tax Bill until after Christmas. There is no rush with it as it...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to lift the guillotine on the debate for those specific reasons but also, more generally, because we need adequate time to debate the Bill and discuss amendments to it.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach propose to instigate a public inquiry with regard to what is happening in Dublin Bay?