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- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: On a point of order, I had to come in to ensure there was a quorum. The Government is supposed to provide a quorum.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle said at the outset that while, on the one hand, Question Time would run to 10.45 a.m., on the other, 75 minutes were to be allocated.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is extremely unfair on a Deputy who has to make special child care arrangements to be here to ask the question.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is outrageous.
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that will benefit from the changes to the special assignee relief programme, including the scrapping of the ceiling of €500,000, the reduction in the amount of time for which a person must have been employed by a company, and the withdrawal of the requirement not to be tax-resident in another country; and the cost to the...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: My question relates to the special assignee relief programme, SARP. What effect, in terms of massive benefits, will the further generous concessions the Minister provides in the Finance Bill have for highly paid individuals?
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The SARP was a massive tax break provided by the Government to the highest-paid executives who qualified for it. A qualifying chief executive on €500,000 a year would increase his or her take-home pay by a breathtaking €52,275 per year. The Minister had instituted a cap of €500,000, but now he is removing that cap, so that somebody on €750,000 will get not just...
- Other Questions: Tax Code (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: This is just further proof and an illustration of the huge anomalies created by weak Irish capitalism over the past 30 or 40 years, which has completely made itself over-dependent on multinational investment instead of developing indigenous industries and more organic investment locally. SARP is a typical result of this. Who lobbied the Minister for this? Who are the stakeholders who...
- Business of Dáil (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Providing a quorum is the Government's responsibility.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (5 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual cost of the extension in budget 2015 of tax breaks for leasing agricultural land; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons and the number of companies benefitting from these tax breaks each year since they were introduced; the benefit per person and per company; and if any analysis has been carried out of the income...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Even if they cannot pay?
- Resignation of Member (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It was a very symbolic day. He finally got the message.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is not agreed. This is the third time in a few weeks that we have had a late sitting in order to do business that is not urgent, when the country is in a state of social insurrection and electoral revolution over the water charges, as we see in Dublin South-West and in Roscommon-South Leitrim, yet we cannot have a debate here on the issue because the Government will not provide the time....
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----to put it up to the Government to abolish this hated tax. They have clarity; they know what they object to-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There was nobody carrying banners saying "We need more clarity". They were people saying "No way; we can't pay," and "Enda Kenny, not a penny." Can we give the Taoiseach a message, if he has not got it from the streets already-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Give us the time we need now to discuss this critical issue, which our people are demanding be dealt with here by abolishing this hated bondholder tax.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I asked the Taoiseach specifically and I am entitled to an answer, according to Standing Orders. When will we get to discuss the issue-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----that the people are talking about incessantly?
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Ní fhreagair an Taoiseach an cheist, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Cathain a bheidh am againn díospóireacht a dhéanamh faoin rud seo, faoi uisce na hÉireann?