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Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: Ms Justice Dunne made that decision.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and all my colleagues who have spoken on the Finance (No. 3) Bill. While this is the third Finance Bill to be introduced by the Government this year, I hope there will not be another such Bill because all the time of the officials in the Department of Finance is being taken up with these measures.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: Before I deal with the substantive issue, I note there was broad consensus in both Houses when the civil partnership legislation was put into Irish law. This does not diminish the rights of colleagues on any side to take a different stance in this regard and I refer to a point made by Senator Mullen. I was in the Dáil and participated in and listened to that debate. Close to 70 Deputies...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I am sorry; it was in the Seanad.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: One person's guillotine is another person's filibuster. I watched the debate in this House and fair is fair. There was a fair articulation of the views but like all things, a conclusion must be reached. As I note the Senator is smiling, the suggestion of a filibuster in respect of the parliamentary device he used at the time may have had some justification. However, I make the point that...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I refer to fundamental taxation rights. No one knows where this debate will go. There are independent views across the House which are all legitimate. For the purposes of this Bill we need to say that it is an extension of an Act passed by the Oireachtas which gives rights, rather than fundamental rights, to civil partners. Why do I think that is important? It is in the public interest...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: No, it does not. There is a reference to dwelling house. It does not refer to the others. Senator Mullen is correct that a child of one civil partner who receives a gift or inheritance from the other civil partner gets a tax free threshold of €332,000. It is called the group A threshold. He contrasted that with the lower tax rate threshold for gifts and inheritance from siblings, aunts...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: Pardon?

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: It does because it is a logical extension of what we passed in law. If we are suggesting that the tax treatment of civil partners should, by and large, be the same as the tax treatment of married couples, it follows, ipso facto, that this treatment of children of a civil partnership should also exist. That is the majority view in the context of this legislation which was passed last year....

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I am not a fundamentalist, unlike the Senator.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: If it is the view, which I suspect it is, that the support is there for the civil partnership legislation, it logically follows that the support should be there for these tax changes. We will have an opportunity next Tuesday to go through this in greater detail.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I apologise.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: No, I did not mean that at all.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: It just popped out, as these things do sometimes.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: I apologise to Senator Mullen. I look forward to the debate next week when we can tease out some of these issues in greater detail.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: -----in that it received not only the support of both Houses but also the collective support of apolitical opinion far and wide across the Houses. The manner in which the legislation was progressed through the Houses marked a good day for the Oireachtas in dealing with an outstanding issue that had been left to one side for many years. It is a convention which I support that tax law follows...

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: Me too.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: That is one way of looking at it.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: The Senator is safe back there.

Seanad: Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (13 Jul 2011)

Brian Hayes: Masks.