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Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (11 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the animal welfare Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11978/10]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (11 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an application will be made by an employer to enter the employment subsidy scheme where that employer was not in a position to apply in 2009 but can provide employment if admitted to the scheme at this point; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12069/10]

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendment No. 33 is concerned with combined heat and power installations. Such producers are competing against State bodies such as the ESB that are exempt from the tax, whereas those from the private sector who are installing combined heat and power facilities, which are highly energy efficient with low carbon outputs, feel they are being discriminated against. In the interests of equity...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister referred to ETS installations only. Combined heat and power installations save approximately 25% of the energy required to generate electricity in a conventional power station because they are on the host site and many of industries using them are in the export market. The Minister is proposing the granting of an advantage to a competitor, namely the ESB but there must be a...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 33: In page 105, line 43, after "electricity" to insert the following: "including the generation of electricity from high efficiency combined heat and power as defined in the Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006".

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: I support this amendment although I was surprised that amendments Nos. 40 and 41 were not grouped. The whole issue of short-term car hire is very significant outside Dublin, especially in my area of the mid-west and Limerick because of people coming in through Shannon Airport. I refer in particular to the scrappage scheme. The Minister is probably well aware that as it stands, the car...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, not when they are bought new.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. These firms are buying new cars straight from the manufacturers. I am referring to fleet hire cars, there is no trade-in.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: They are cars leased by rental companies. They are bought by the garage and let to fleet rental companies. Effectively, these firms will let out the car over the summer season and then return it to the garage which will put it on the forecourt for sale. Those cars will be competing with new cars and they will not take the risk that they will be unable to sell the cars. There is a function...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: A scrappage scheme was allowed in Germany for fleet cars on short-term car hire. This is something already in operation among our competitors in mainland Europe. Why not allow parity and consistency and facilitate tourists who come here? We are supposed to be an export nation and what the Minister is putting in place provides an impediment to that.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will that be looked at?

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: We discussed this proposal at length on Committee Stage. Will the Minister indicate what he would expect the cost to taxpayers to be if this concession were available to sole traders at the marginal rate as well as at the lower rate to limited companies? The majority of people who set up in business do so as sole traders rather than limited companies. I understand the Minister's emphasis...

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister referred to consistency between the PAYE system and the self-employed. There are two elements to this. A person who is a PAYE worker received a tax credit of €1,830, which is the same amount as the personal tax credit which a person who is self-employed does not get, which does not detract from a person who enters a PAYE job; the employer and not the employee takes the risk....

Flood Relief. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to the overall review and the recent floods in the context of my constituency in Limerick. Many of the floods were man made. The Minister of State should examine two elements of the problem that affected various people along the Shannon and the ESB. There is a general view that water could have been released earlier and over a longer period. I refer to very simple measures such as...

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: On the same matter-----

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is fair comment, if one looks back over the past number of years, that the Department's figures have been way off target. If that occurred in the normal business world questions would be asked. On the same theme, how many new staff with specific master's degrees in economics, accountancy or tax specialties has the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, taken on since he came into office? Does...

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Government looked after the higher paid.

Pension Provisions. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Higher paid civil servants will take a 3% pay cut in 2010 while the low-paid will take a 5% cut.

Pension Provisions. (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did the Minister confirm earlier that from 2010 onwards, the pay cuts will have no impact on any public sector pensions?

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)

Kieran O'Donnell: Personal injury awards should be made on the basis they deal with the needs of the individual. The Law Reform Commission recommended consideration of a payment on an annual basis because it may be of more benefit to the individual than a lump sum so why should there be two separate forms of tax treatment? It is a reasonable amendment that Senator Joe O'Toole has framed and I would like to...