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

Michael McGrath: All of this begs the question, who was looking after everyone else in the middle. Families who do not qualify for a medical card now have to make a drugs payment of €144 per month. In the budget negotiations, who was watching out for families who get no assistance whatsoever with their mortgage or rent or who have to bear the full cost of their children's education? The price Fine...

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

Michael McGrath: Fine Gael used the basic welfare payment of €188 per week as a negotiating chip to protect those earning more than €100,000 per year.

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

Michael McGrath: The Government has increased the universal social charge for pensioners over 70 years of age by 3%, but it cannot increase the tax on those earning enormous sums of money.

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

Michael McGrath: In the face of this resistance from Fine Gael, the Labour Party capitulated and accepted the symbolic fig leaf of a so-called mansion tax that will affect a small number of people and bring in little additional revenue.

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

Michael McGrath: Principles that were articulated in opposition are forgotten around the table of power. Fianna Fáil believes the Minister had some scope to increase the direct taxation burden on those with very high incomes. This would have given him a wider set of choices in deciding his spending priorities. The Minister, in a highly regressive move, abolished the PRSI exemption threshold in a...

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

Michael McGrath: On a point of order, this is unprecedented. While I do not wish to interrupt the Minister in his budget speech, ten minutes into that speech-----

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

Michael McGrath: -----the budget documentation has not been circulated to the Opposition.

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

Michael McGrath: It is unprecedented and I ask the Minister-----

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

Michael McGrath: -----to pause until the budget documentation is circulated to Members.

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

Michael McGrath: It is unprecedented.

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

Michael McGrath: This is unprecedented and is a disgrace.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if AIB has engaged with its customers who invested in the AIB Alpha Japan Fund and who believe that the investment product was mis-sold; the number of customers who invested in the fund and the total amount invested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53714/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 20 November 2012, if he will explain the way the annual pension contribution of Allied Irish Banks chief executive (details supplied) of €63,750 is calculated and if this figure represents the annualised value of the amount of money invested by the bank into the company’s pension fund on their behalf or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Agencies (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 20 November 2012, if he will quantify annualised contributions of the National Treasury Management Agency and the National Asset Management Agency to the pension funds of their respective chief executives (details supplied); if he will furhter quantify their annual pension entitlement will be in retirement if they...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: AIB Consultancy Contracts (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money paid by AIB to consultants (details supplied) for work carried out at the bank in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53852/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who wishes to settle a tax liability with the Revenue cannot pay by debit card and if he will confirm the fee charged by Revenue when a credit card is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53860/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the provision of home care assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53736/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (4 Dec 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the provision of home care assistance to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54027/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (29 Nov 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals for expanding wind energy exports; his targets regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53263/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (29 Nov 2012)

Michael McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will show separately in respect of the CEO of the National Treasury Management Agency and the CEO of the National Assets Management Agency, an estimate of the State's pension contribution and the estimated value of each of their pension fund if they were employed to retirement age on present salary; if the pension due to be paid is based on final...