Results 26,881-26,900 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: They cannot avail of the relief unless they are relevant employees. Revenue cannot make up its own rules. The legislation defines a relevant employee.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: There has not been an issue because the section has not applied previously with regard to apportionment.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The apportionment section?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: This is giving clarity to something which already applies.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The 12 consecutive months with regard to the definition of a relevant employee was laid down in law prior to this.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Can we get a note from Revenue on how it interprets this, in particular addressing the concerns I have raised at this meeting which are quite specific?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Where is the demand coming from with regard to the change from six months to 12 months?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 17: In page 23, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:"Annual Report of the Special Assignee Relief Programme14.The Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas an annual report showing the number of people who have availed of the Special Assignee Relief Programme (SARP), the number of additional jobs created by SARP and tax foregone as a result of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Will it include the number of additional jobs created under the measure?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: How many jobs were created as a result of this?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The figure for 2013 is 25.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The figure for 2012 is five.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Obviously these are additional to the jobs of the people availing of SARP.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: When this was announced in 2012 I challenged the Government and Deputy Burton, who was not Tánaiste at the time, stated on Leaders' Questions that it was critical we attracted people to help create more jobs, that the projected cost of the relief for up to 100 individuals, which never materialised, over a period of time was between €3 million and €5 million and that it was...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I do not propose to speak to my amendment at this point although I have no objection to other Deputies speaking on the issue now. I would rather not challenge the chair at this time.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Two of my amendments to this section were ruled out of order, the first of which relates to the reduction from 12 months to six months in respect of the period for which the relevant employee must have been an employee of the relevant employer prior to his or her coming to this State. I am interested to hear the reason for this. Section 13(c)(c) provides that an individual must perform the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: That is the point I am making. If an individual arrives in June, will the €75,000 be reduced by half? As the person will be here for only half the year a €37,500 tax deduction will be made because apportionment will be used. The person will be able to claim relief under SARP at the end of the year for this portion of money, but he or she will not yet have complied with the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am sticking to the amendments.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Water charges may be a very sensitive issue for the Chairman and his party but as regards the priorities-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I also appreciate that there are sensitivities in the Government about water charges. I am trying to refrain from raising the issue of water charges but there is an issue in the Finance Bill to do specifically with SARP and how people will benefit. It is appropriate to mention the point about other priorities in Ireland that could be addressed in the Finance Bill and it...