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Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 536: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1264 of 25 January 2006, the State boards or bodies to which the 672 appointments were made under the aegis of her Department since 2002. [9227/06]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 1264 of 25 January 2006, the State boards or bodies on which there are currently 53 vacancies. [9228/06]

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: It is too early to tell.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: We will see who is inconsistent in 2025.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Minister might remember how I complimented him on budget day and after his speech on Second Stage of this Bill. I do not know if he interpreted it as a compliment but I meant it as such. I am convinced he believes in the need for change and we share a belief in the direction that change should take. However, I am frustrated because the amount of change he believes in is far too modest and...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I am recording my own version of history, as the Minister has been doing all evening.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: There will be no more compliments for the Minister.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: Fair enough, but he might need them one day.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: They will, of course, be very valuable in Laois-Offaly.

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I will address the substantive amendments before us. As members of the Opposition, the limitations we face in making amendments of this type mean that these upward figures are the extent to which Deputy Bruton can suggest these changes. I agree with what has been proposed in these amendments and support them. The real change which is needed and which would cut across all parties and potential...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I will speak briefly as I do not want to deprive the Minister of the opportunity to utter the final words on the Bill. I support the amendments. The principle being advanced, that no degree of relief for a subsidy or direct payment should be given to people who should be obliged to adhere to the law of the land, is sound and should be part of the Finance Bill just as much as it should be part...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: We do not need to spend too much time on this amendment. As Deputy Bruton stated in moving the amendment, we have covered most of the ground already in amendment No. 1. The theme of the contributions appears to be that if the Minister is not prepared to have some kind of refund mechanism for the additional moneys he finds in the coffers due to the indifference or ignorance of taxpayers, he...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: Tax relief on pensions is, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the tax relief that dare not speak its name. It is the most pernicious and iniquitous method of relief in the system. The Minister has missed a major opportunity to tackle one of the most unequal aspects of our tax code. This became apparent when tax forgone began to equal the amount paid annually in the State pension and it has now...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: Perhaps at this stage the Minister and I can come to some arrangement as to how we want this Bill to proceed. I presume the other Opposition spokespersons will attend shortly. I was disappointed with the response of the Minister for Finance before Private Members' Business that the Book of Estimates subhead for carbon credits meets what I was seeking in terms of the amendment before us. I am...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I support the amendment. The Government has failed to institute a plan which would bring the home carer's allowance at least some distance closer to the standard PAYE credit. The home carer's tax credit was introduced as a sop in response to the furore which greeted the introduction of tax individualisation. The fact that the value of the credit has remained static for several years indicates...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I support the amendment. What would the situation be if the reverse was true and taxpayers were granted all existing tax reliefs which had to be claimed back by Revenue? I suspect systems would be in place which would find out fairly quickly the money due to the State. The onus is placed on the taxpayer to make themselves aware of reliefs available, how he or she can benefit and the type of...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall establish a new subhead in the Book of Estimates on expenditure to be incurred as a result of obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.". Having been ruled out of order on Committee Stage, I resubmitted this amendment in a form which ensured it would be in order. It seeks to have the...

Finance Bill 2006: Report Stage. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: The Deputy is getting closer.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to allow the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make a further statement to this House to clarify the record after his Department refused freedom of information requests from media organisations to provide an accompanying photograph to a false passport application that he made...

Order of Business. (7 Mar 2006)

Dan Boyle: There are 141 amendments which need critical examination before 11 p.m. this evening, 80 of which have been submitted in the name of the Minister for Finance. As Deputy Bruton has stated, we have been given no background information about these new amendments, many of which were not referred to on Committee Stage and many of which will not be discussed tonight on Report Stage. In his 2004...