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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure whether too many people will be able to afford an autumn break. Hopefully, that was a hint that the Minister is going to ease up on austerity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: True. That takes me back to the time the Minister said I was like the Donegal team, all defenders. Look what we did a year later, so just watch out. Some of the questions I want to raise have been touched on already. In regard to the supervision of the major and systemically important banks, the Minister mentioned there is a minimum requirement of three in each member state. For...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We regulate Ulster Bank in regard to its operations here. It has over 1 million customers here. Is it a minimum of three banks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is it for the Minister for Finance to determine which the third bank will be or whether there should be a fourth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There is no clarification on the third bank here, but there will be a third one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Review of ECOFIN Matters under Irish EU Presidency: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, and it will base its choice on whether the banks selected are major banks or systemically important to the Irish economy. The Minister mentioned the bail-in and Deputy Donnelly also touched on that. Will the Minister tell us what effect the bail-in will have on pillar banks in which we have a shareholding - for example, AIB, which we nearly own completely, or Bank of Ireland? How...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Before we vote on the motion, I wish to speak in support of it. At least one speaker who voted against the previous two motions has suggested that it is the intention of the sub-committee to bring in the multinationals. Let me be clear, if we vote against this motion, the view of the committee is that no multinationals are to be brought in at this stage. It will be an option that could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Please allow me to finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Chairman may not like what I am saying but I am entitled to say it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am in order. I am drawing comparisons between-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am drawing comparisons between what is about to be agreed at this committee and what has been agreed under the last two motions, which would be the equivalent of a banking inquiry inviting in the architects, including the regulator, Minister for Finance and other Ministers present on the night of the bank guarantee and publishing a report which may include a recommendation to invite in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Vótáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I oppose Deputy Murphy's amendment for a number of reasons. To respond to Deputy Humphreys, there is no suggestion that we would speak to representatives of any multinational corporations before the Minister for Finance, officials from the Department of Finance, Revenue Commissioners and OECD and academic experts have appeared before the sub-committee. It is proposed to have these witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That the Sub-Committee on Global Taxation may invite, if it sees it as appropriate, and after hearing from the OECD, the Department of Finance, the Revenue Commissioners and the Minister for Finance, and the other named individuals discussed at the Sub-Committee on Global Taxation meeting of 26 June, other witnesses before the committee.In November 2012, in a formal proposal to this...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that the allocation of an additional 500 resource teachers to meet the increase in the percentage of children with special needs who are attending school from September 2013 onwards will result in funding being withdrawn from the overall education budget; if he will confirm that he has no plans to increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to objections raised by staff of Dublin Institute of Technology regarding the provision of Shell funding towards the new visual art degree in Erris, County Mayo, which is being offered by DIT and Mayo County Council [32217/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June, if he will outline the effective tax rate effect for income earners whose tax credits were phased out with a reduction of half the credits between €100,000 and €150,000; three quarters of the credits between €150,000 and €200,000; and abolished over €200,000; based on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June 2013, if he will set out the additional average tax paid by employees in the categories mentioned if the employees were also subject to a new third rate of tax of 48% on income earned in excess of €100,000. [32382/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised if personal and not employee tax credits for high income earners were phased out with a reduction of half the credits between €100,000 and €150,000; three quarters of the credits between €150,000 and €200,000; and abolished over €200,000; the impact that would have on the average tax take...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 26 June 2013, if he will set out the average additional tax take paid by taxpayers earning over €100,000 if tax credits were abolished; and the average additional tax take that would be paid if these taxpayers also incurred a new third rate of tax of 48% on the income earned in excess of...