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Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: It is happy to spend them and claim the credit.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: There was no sign of that in the party's budget.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: What is Deputy Tóibín's solution?

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: What was the result? They were competing with each other. Sinn Féin was competing with the independent socialists, going into communities and telling people not to pay their taxes. Where are they now, when those people have to pay more? They have codded the people and now they have deserted them. That is what Sinn Féin was doing - going around the country, cod acting and...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: That is the ill-judged, populist politics in which Sinn Féin is engaging.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: The Sinn Féin Deputies come back in here and table parliamentary questions to Ministers in this House, encourage their local authority members to demand and insist on services and so forth, but they never demand to know where the money will come from.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: That is the populism and the lack of leadership that Sinn Féin has and always will have.

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Regardless of whether we like it, the property tax is needed to maintain essential local services in our communities. This Bill is an opportunistic, populist move by the Opposition. The same Opposition regularly calls for improved services in every local authority in the country and insists on more funding for communities in...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: How would it pay for local services? It does not tell us. This is the great economic black hole that Sinn Féin has created. In the North it is happy to collect an average of £1,000 per household for spending on local services. Of course, Sinn Féin points the finger of blame up there at Westminster, while here it points it at the Irish Government. The party always puts it on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2013: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: The Minister of State and her officials must be cognisant that people are making proposals in the area of hydro-technology. However, the convoluted nature of the planning process makes it difficult for proposers as they have to provide a large amount of information. Moreover, once they obtain planning permission, they must seek grid connectivity from the ESB which may not match up. As a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2013: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials to the committee. I also believe these exemptions are quite reasonable and practical and I welcome them in their entirety. It is very pragmatic to have an exemption where the upgrade of a septic tank is required. There was considerable scaremongering and misinformation initially when the septic tank legislation was proposed and I am glad to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome Mr. Skehan to the committee and wish him well with his appointment. It is early days for him and the new agency but he will agree that it will play an important role on oversight, independent advice and co-ordination of housing and sustainability policy. Mr. Skehan mentioned planning earlier and much of what happens now will be retrospective and reactive to the bad planning that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (11 Jun 2013)

Paudie Coffey: 357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of Industrial Development Agency funding that was granted to a company (details supplied) in County Waterford for each of the years that they were located in the specified business park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26663/13]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy should look at who is sitting to his left.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (14 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: 357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be allowed to appeal their illness benefit application decision by way of oral hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22707/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (14 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: 437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to update recycling regulations in order that the recycling of rubber, including car tyres would fall under a similar scheme that came about as a result of the WEEE directive 2002/96/EC; the way he will intend to go about introducing such a scheme; if he will outline any possible time-frame for such a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (7 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: 277. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda vetting clearance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21122/13]

Message from Select Sub-Committee (1 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: The Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills has completed its consideration of the Further Education and Training Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: No. The Deputy has two minutes remaining.

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate and commend Deputy Tom Fleming on introducing this reasonable and logical motion. I also commend the Joint Committee on Health and Children on the cross-party approach it has taken to this sensitive issue. When I attended a meeting of the committee last week I was delighted to hear contributions from live donors and people...