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Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: It is now proposing to reinstate-----

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: -----the health and income levies that were brought in by the last Government.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We should examine those levies and the detail of what Sinn Féin is proposing. The detail of the income levy is that somebody who earns between €15,000 and €75,000 pays 2% of their income. The detail of the health levy is that somebody who earns between €26,000 and €75,000 pays 4% of their income. The cumulative total is 6%. That is the total that needs to be paid when the two...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: If this programme were implemented, Sinn Féin would be reintroducing the old income and health levies which were abolished when the universal service charge was introduced.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The cumulative effect of those levies would be to require somebody on the average industrial wage to pay 6% of his or her income. How can that be reconciled with the Sinn Féin rhetoric of abolishing the universal social charge and taxing the rich so the working poor do not have to pay? The reality of what Sinn Féin is proposing is not the abolition of the universal social charge - it is...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason Sinn Féin did not want to say it then, and the reason it is saying what it is saying here tonight, is that its figures do not add up.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I heard Deputy Adams say on the floor of this House that the universal social charge brings in €400 million. That is wrong.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: This year, the universal social charge will bring in €3.2 billion.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Next year, the universal social charge will bring in €4 billion.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, spoke about the regular references to the representation of elites and ordinary people. I do not represent any elite.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not from an elite.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I came into politics by choice. I am proud to represent the people of Dublin Central. I will represent them with dignity and honesty.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I will tell Deputies what those people want. They do not want to pay the universal social charge any more than it needs to be levied on them. They want their schools and hospitals to be open.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: They want this State to be able to exit the arrangement that has been opposed on us, which means that our fate is being determined by other people. Honesty is needed if that is to be possible. The people need to be told from where the figures will come. They need to have it explained to them. There is a better way, but it is not the Sinn Féin way.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I heard representatives of Sinn Féin clearly explain that party's proposals.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: They were proposing to ask members of the public to send postcards to the Department of Finance to outline their opposition to this measure.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: It is an appropriate image because the sum detail of Sinn Féin's economic policy would fit on the back of a postcard. We need honesty.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We need politics that is based on meeting people's needs, rather than their wants.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: That is what our amendment does.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We need to find a way to make our State secure. We need to find a way of making it sovereign. We need to find a way of making sure we can pay the wages of the people who provide our public services. We need to put in place a tax system that meets the aspirations and needs of the people who serve it.