Results 29,601-29,620 of 36,033 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: From the man who held two jobs for 30 years. He kept a young person out of a teacher's job for about 30 years. He drew his pension and his money.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: He did.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (16 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide funding for emergency works at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if his attention has been drawn to the safety issue, the work carried out by the community to rectify the problem; if his Department can bridge the gap in terms of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43877/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not respond to my question in regard to the €1 million cost to the State. Where did the calculation come from and how many investors are involved? What is the cost based on and how many additional investors are required? Who is lobbying for this change and for this resolution to be moved tonight? This is not something that will have people running to their tax...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Am I correct in saying that Financial Resolution No. 4 represents a cost to the State of €1 million?

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister explain how the cost to the State applies, how it is calculated and where the extra charge comes from?

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I return to the figures. Will the Minister correct me if I go wrong? In 2011, 14 people availed of a relief that cumulatively reduced their tax bill by €1 million. These are high income earners. We are getting rid of that and this will cost the State €1 million. I do not understand that.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Some of the 14 individuals do no wrong but just use the existing tax code. They would not be able to write down their tax liability to €1 million if they were going to lease their plant to other companies. Therefore they would have to pay the full €1 million in taxes.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Let us reverse. Financial Resolution No. 3, on which I spoke earlier, is fine regarding closing that avoidance measure. How did the Government calculate the €1 million cost to the State from Financial Resolution No. 4? That is where the Minister spoke about the 14 investors but those investors were in Financial Resolution No. 3. The Government is opening the potential for another...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 3: Income Tax; No. 4: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Seo ceann de na ceisteanna a phlé muid leis an Aire Airgeadais sa coiste Oireachtais i rith na bliana. Cé gur moladh an scéim go huile agus go hiomlán mar scéim úr, sílim go bhfuil sé ceart agus cóir go bhfuil an leasú seo ag teacht os comhair na Dála anocht mar gur féidir leo sin atá ioncam an-ard acu mí-úsáid a...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----or from people who go around housing estates, knocking on doors and selling cigarettes.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: People do not see it in terms of defrauding the State, in the context of lost revenue, or even of breaking the law. It is not looked at in that way. There is a job of work to be done if we want to recoup the €750 million that is lost annually through the black market trade but the only way we can do that is to ring-fence the proceeds from increases in excise duty on cigarettes to...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Revenue Commissioners have told the Department that if there is an additional investment in Revenue's human resources, it can identify €100 million of additional revenue. The net effect of that is something like €93 million. An investment of €6 million will bring in €100 million, according to the Revenue Commissioners. The increase in excise duty is...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is a bit like a self-help group here.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I say that as a reformed smoker. We articulated our views last year on foot of the measure to increase the price of tobacco products. The Tánaiste will be aware that we called for an increase in our alternative budget submission. We believe the increase should be in the order of 20 cent. If the Tánaiste read our document, he would have read that money should be ring-fenced to...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It has started to drop. There may be a decrease and that is to be welcomed. The various surveys by Retail Ireland and others show that one in every three cigarettes purchased in this State is purchased on the black market or through illicit trade. The surveys show that this costs the Exchequer in the region of €700 million in lost revenue. Statistics show that detections this year...

Allocation of Time: Motion (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It has been normal practice in the Chamber that there is a short brief on each of the resolutions. The pressure of time means we have one hour during the suspension of the sitting to look at the financial resolutions before us. We have been handed a white page, with some points having only seven or eight words, as a brief on some of the financial statements. It is bad form, as the...

Allocation of Time: Motion (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am talking about the briefing.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is one of the Government's main taxation proposals. It will take in €145 million in additional taxes from people who consume alcohol. The retention of the 9% VAT rate for the tourism sector been dressed up by the Minister as making up for this, but the 9% VAT rate for 2014 will amount to slightly more - around €290 million from across the entire hospitality and tourism...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Government should send postcards to Perth and Canberra in Australia, and to New York and London, because the young people of this State could not wait for it to get its act together. They have given up and left. It is time the Government got its act together. It announced that policy almost three years ago. When the Government came to power the unemployment rate was 13.5%, as per the...