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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive treatment in respect of a medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14815/11]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of national lottery funding included in subhead B.2, grants to health agencies and other similar organisations, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011. [14892/11]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of national lottery funding included in subhead B.7, grants to health agencies and other similar organisations, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011. [14893/11]

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of national lottery funding included in subhead C.2, building, equipping and furnishing of health facilities, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011. [14894/11]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of national lottery funding included in subhead C1, grants for sporting bodies and the provision of sports and recreational facilities, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services in 2011. [14889/11]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of national lottery funding included in subhead C3, Irish Sports Council grant-in-aid, in the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011. [14890/11]

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the fact that the valuation has been moved to the end of June because I had a problem with basing a levy this summer on a date that had passed several months ago and that is the reason I regarded it as a retrospective levy based on a valuation date that had since passed. However, the Minister has made the change and it is not an issue. I am pleased there will be a single valuation...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Yes, I had in mind the rate proposed by the Minister.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his response. As regards the latter point, the maximum cap of €470 million might mean that if more was collected the Minister might have to give a refund, which would be a complicated exercise. I understand that. If I was in the Minister's position and got a bit more than the €470 million, I would take it. I am concerned, however, because some people will say...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: We did. To come back to what we were discussing earlier, there is a simple way of handling approved retirement funds or ARFs. The Minister could table an amendment to increase the 5% tax to 6%. The Minister said that the rate that went to 5% in the last budget is taxed at a person's marginal rate and is effectively the equivalent of about 2.5% at the top rate of tax after the universal...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: In fairness, every time we ask for a breakdown of a particular tax it translates itself down the road into changing taxation form No. 11. It adds another page to what is already an ever-expanding document. Every time we seek the cost of various allowances, pages keep getting added on. It is a pity we do not have another way of getting the information, but I know that in order to obtain the...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I am mentioning it so loudly because the Chamber is almost empty. Many Labour Party Members who come here later today to vote on this measure will not know that they are passing legislation to give a specific exemption for Michael Fingleton, Sean FitzPatrick and others. I hope I have made my point. The Minister should take an hour this afternoon to draft an amendment to capture those...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister repeat himself?

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I have tabled an amendment.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: No.

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I will be helpful. The amendment I have in mind is a simple one, namely, to include ARFs in the definition of what is covered under the scheme. I could not have tabled that amendment because I would then be levying a charge on ARFs, which a member of the Opposition cannot do. I needed to take a roundabout way to raise the issue on the floor. I do not want to touch the imputed tax. The...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 23: In page 9, line 13, after "subsection (2)" to insert the following: "or at a per cent chargeable on annuities which have been purchased with an insurance company or Approved Retirement Schemes (ARFs), whichever is the lesser".

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Minister might advise Members as to the identities of the organisations, companies and representative associations with which officials from his Department and the Revenue Commissioners met specifically to discuss these issues between the Bill's publication and the present, as well as whether the Minister was personally involved or has been briefed on an ongoing basis. He should provide...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this group of amendments. I will discuss amendment No. 23 which is in my name. I acknowledge the rationalisation of the payment dates as proposed in the Minister's amendments. I had tabled two amendments to do with payment dates but these were ruled out of order. I am still wondering as to the reason. The first payment date was scheduled to be 25 July...