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Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the yield, one would be taking approximately €1 million a year off somebody who is earning €3 million to €4 million a year. I do not have a difficulty with that.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are approximately 120 of them, according to tables we received from the Department.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I do not understand is, if the Government can do what is proposed in this resolution, which is a progressive measure, why could it not have increased to some degree, if not as much as we wished, the income tax for those earning more than €100,000 on some sort of progressive increasing scale? I have genuine questions for the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I stated we would support it.

Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry His Whipness is not here to hear me say that we will support this measure because it is a marginally progressive move. It is a gesture or token towards being progressive and dealing with gross inequalities of wealth and income without any serious substance in the budget towards addressing these inequalities. I cannot say it better than Deputy Shortall because she hit the nail on...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been consistent on these matters because we provided an alternative. As I tried to explain to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste earlier, none of these cuts would be necessary if they enforced the 12.5% corporate tax rate on the multinationals which are making tens of billions in profits and walking away with the loot.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is our alternative.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Alternatively, if it had imposed a fair and progressive income tax on those earning over €100,000, as we explained in our pre-budget submission, the Government could have raised €2.5 billion. It would not have needed to impose these cuts or attack families; it could have done it fairly and had money left over to fund a jobs programme.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief. As with many of the measures that are being introduced in the budget, and in the previous budget, the Taoiseach will try to provide a specific justification or rationale for particular tax increases. He will try to make them sound more palatable when in reality they are just further overwhelmingly regressive austerity measures that are being imposed on ordinary families....

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On that point, your whipness, in response to what Deputy Sean Fleming said-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to be brief to give the other Deputies time. This measure has nothing to do with public health, but it has everything to do with grabbing more money in a regressive way that will yet again hit the least well off. This will hit those on the lowest incomes. It is precisely the gross inequalities in our society, widespread unemployment and poverty that will fuel addiction to...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish I could say otherwise but today is another day of shame for this Government. It is not a day of hard choices, as it kept repeating. It is a day of cruel choices inflicted by those who are protecting the privileged and the powerful on those who are struggling and in despair. It is a day when it has driven tens of thousands of families who were teetering on the edge of poverty into...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What changes?

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do you not listen to me?

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have copies of the statement.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's statement.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the timeline for the different meetings and topics of the constitutional convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54227/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There can be no more opportune time than when the G8 summit is taking place in this country at the same time as Ireland will hold the Presidency of the European Union, and when we might have the President of the most powerful state in the world might be visiting this country, to raise issues of global and international importance. We can agree on that. I ask the Taoiseach to raise, not...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.