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Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Some 87,000 left this State last year and the same number left the year before. That is a failure of political leadership and a failure of every Member in the House who supports a Government with its head stuck in the sand. I got a letter today from an individual who talked about the misery of being unemployed and about having to turn to professional counselling services to try to scrape...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We wish.

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 26:In page 125, to delete lines 15 to 51.I appreciate that the Minister of State is filling in for the Minister for Finance. I had hoped the Minister would be in the Chamber, but I understand he cannot be here. The figures for car sales came out last month. The sector is in serious difficulty, as the figures show. The amendment concerns increases in VRT imposed...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State have the price tag?

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We discussed the issue of fuel poverty on Committee Stage. I agree with Deputy Michael McGrath that this is a poverty issue. Some people will not be impacted on by this increase in the price of a bag of coal or a bale of briquettes, but others will. They do not have a range of options such as being able to fill their tank with oil and turn on the heating. As I said at the finance...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 24:In page 121, to delete lines 21 to 46 and in page 122, to delete lines 1 to 20.This is the Minister of State's moment. He has put up the posters, distributed the leaflets and taken out the advertisements and can now announce that the €1 increase in the price of a bottle of wine is no more. He is sitting in the chair that matters and should not allow Fine Gael...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is well aware that there is a raft of alternative proposals and measures which could bring in similar amounts of money. If we are to believe the media, his party has argued for the introduction of some of these measures in order to bring in additional revenue. I was being genuine when I made my opening comments. What is being done is simply wrong. I refer, in...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Any success by Revenue in this regard is to be welcomed. I have a lot of respect for Revenue and believe its resources should be increased, as I have argued in our alternative budget and as Revenue has also argued when suggesting it could make a net gain of some €94 million for the State if it was allowed to hire additional staff to deal with black market activity and compliance. ...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No, although I would have liked to have heard the rest of what the Minister of State had to say.

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is one of the amendments I am disposed to push to a vote. I genuinely and passionately believe we need to change things in this regard, although I welcome the Minister's statement that he intends to get his political adviser to contact me. I reiterate that I welcome the position he outlined on Committee Stage about looking into the Scottish model of equality-proofing. As I have said...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 18:In page 109, to delete lines 15 to 41.This amendment relates to the increase in the price of tobacco products and I will not tear the backside out of it. The House passed the resolutions on budget night and we have debated the matter since. This Report Stage debate follows our previous consideration of the Bill on Second and Committee Stages. I have tabled this...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 17:In page 76, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following:“34.—The Minister shall within 1 year of the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann an analysis of the tax expenditures included in this Act, setting out their incurred cost to the State and the impact they have had on job creation, volume of new start-ups, preventing...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am very opposed to the type of relief mentioned. Amendment No. 17 provides for an analysis of the cost of tax expenditures and their impact on job creation, the volume of new start-up companies and the prevention of job losses. We have been looking for a provision of this nature for quite a while because it is appropriate that we examine the larger tax reliefs, in particular, to determine...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 16:In page 69, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “32.—The Minister shall within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the effect of section 31, with a focus on its impact on regional airports in particular, examining if they are at an unfair disadvantage because of it and to...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am in the same position as I would have liked to have heard the Minister's whole contribution. In fairness, on Committee Stage the Minister explained the incentive would be universally applicable to all airports, but he also stated it was designed specifically for Shannon Airport or that the airport would benefit potentially from it. Is there not a concern that Shannon Airport can do this...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim leithscéal, an Teachta Naughten. Bhí sé ar mo chúl agus ní fhaca mé é. Sílim go bhfuil léargas maith ó thaobh na ceiste seo curtha os comhair an Aire ag an Teachta Naughten agus ag an Teachta Mulherin as Contae Mhuigheo. Bíonn daoine ar fud an iar-thuaiscirt ag déanamh freastail ar an aerphort seo. Cé go bhfuil...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is indicating that is not the case. He might correct me on that because one of the issues Knock airport has brought to my attention is that it does not have that additional income, and the way in which this section is devised means it will be unable to benefit from it. Section 23 reliefs needs to be consigned to the State's history books, but there must be other ways to ensure...

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I dispute that as would the Minister's own Finance Bill. We have dealt with such sections within the Bill. Provisions on the taxation of third level fees deal not only with taxation this year but consider the policy of the Government to increase fees incrementally over the next number of years. The Minister has allowed for that in the Bill even though that policy has not been implemented....

Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 11:In page 49, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:"(3) The Minister commits to examining and reviewing the Employment and Investment Incentive and Seed Capital Scheme in advance of Budget 2014, in particular with regards to its effect on employment levels and new jobs created.".The amendment relates to the employment and investment incentive and seed capital...