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Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: The destruction of the Ryan commission records-----

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: -----is an issue of national importance. It would cause unbelievable stress to the people who gave evidence.

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: No. While it has been traditional for the Dáil to adjourn for a period when elections are being held, given the state of the economy people are shocked at the notion of such a break. There is no way the Labour Party will support the Government's proposal that the Dáil having resumed on Tuesday week will then adjourn on 2 July sine die for the rest of the summer.

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: We are laying down a marker that this is not acceptable to the Labour Party.

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: In the context of the all-party motion to which Members have committed themselves regarding the Ryan report and supporting the full implementation of the report's recommendations, I refer to the case of Melissa Mahon, the 14-year old girl and the man who was convicted yesterday of her unlawful killing. Will the Minister for Health and Children provide for an independent investigation because...

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: In the week of the Ryan report's publication, Members must be aware that abuse and the harrowing events related in that case equally require investigation. She was under the care-----

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: -----of the HSE.

Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister disclose whether she will hold an independent investigation?

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I support Deputy Bruton's amendment. Fianna Fáil is addicted to tax incentives for property development and construction because it feels their introduction was the goose that laid the golden egg, creating the boom years of the Celtic tiger. It should be obvious to the Minister that they destroyed the Celtic tiger. The Minister's predecessor was advised of that on many occasions and...

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: -----and to concentrate-----

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: ----- because of the tax breaks, on the development of private hospitals that will have the most up to date cancer, analysis and radiography equipment, all of which will be funded by taxpayers through tax breaks. Public patients will queue up to access those facilities and the public hospital system will pay the private hospital operators-----

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Moreover, the capital for all of this-----

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: The bulk of the capital for this development now will be funded by tax breaks. These amendments only seek that such tax breaks be costed to ascertain their true value and cost. In Ireland, tax expenditures through tax breaks are treated as though they were meaningless. Earlier, I noted that not alone is the marginal tax rate 41% but, in effect, it can be considerably higher for different...

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: It is a 15-year relief.

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: They are. Absolutely.

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I thought both amendments were being taken together.

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I am disappointed with the Minister's response. It is obvious that he is not prepared to allow the vast amounts of money the Department of Finance is committing to these projects, on behalf of taxpayers, to be examined. The valuation of these projects should be examined at this time for two reasons. The financial structure of the projects will remain changed for the foreseeable future....

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: We know what "reconfiguring" means.

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister should not make it more complicated.

Finance Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 May 2009)

Joan Burton: On a point of clarification, Deputy Bruton is suggesting that when a bank credits interest that might be shown gross, as well as the net amount of the tax deducted and the net amount of interest because at the moment most people get interest credited net.