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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It should not be a challenge for anybody to decide between those two "evils" as the Deputy called them. They are not evil. One is about standing up for the weakest in society and the other is about protecting the most vulnerable.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: One of them is also about growing our economy, because if we do not reduce the wages of the lowest income earners in society, we will ensure there is more money in the real economy, more money to spend on businesses and more money to spend in local shops and retail units etc. That is what it is about.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Finally, as I mentioned previously on the budget, there is a challenge for all of us. We will face a general election shortly and despite the introduction of this measure, which is one of the worst measures the Government is introducing, I have not yet heard a clear commitment in the Chamber that any party in a position to form the next Government will immediately introduce legislation that...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, can I ask the Minister of State to clarify-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----if the advice came from the same source that said the Donegal South-West by-election did not need to be held?

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: May I speak briefly?

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I listened to Deputy O'Donoghue earlier. There are many things I do not understand in the week I have been in this House. One thing I cannot understand is Deputy O'Donoghue sympathising with people who are losing their incomes because of these levies given that he is the same person who bled the expenses system dry, travelling to horse race meetings all over the world-----

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----and had to be kicked out of the position in which you now sit, a Cheann Comhairle. Regarding the tax relief-----

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----on trade union subscriptions, never did we have greater need for reliefs on such subscriptions, which should be at the lower rate of tax. At a time when the Government will reduce the minimum wage and employers will use it as a guise to drive down wages, I cannot understand how any party that claims to be on the left would support such a measure as getting rid of union tax reliefs.

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister talked about phasing out rent reliefs. In effect in the next 20 minutes somebody entering into a rental contract will have no rent relief because new claimants into this system will not have rent reliefs after midnight.

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Where is the proportionality in that? How do we allow section 23 property speculators-----

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----to continue up to 2021, but yet rent relief will be finished by tonight?

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: How do we allow the owners of those buildings to continue to get mortgage interest relief but people in their own domestic homes do not get it, people in private rental accommodation will have it phased out and people entering the system from midnight will not get it? Where is the proportionality?

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Where is the impact assessment into that?

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Ar Rúin Airgeadais 20, 21 agus 22, iarraim ar an Aire na faoisimh cánach atá ar fáil faoi alt 23 a shoiléiriú. Nuair a bhí mé ag éisteacht leis an Aire Airgeadais níos luaithe, dúirt sé go gcuirfí deireadh leis na faoisimh seo i 2014. Ag amharc ar na sonraí, áfach, tá sé soiléir go mbeidh cuid dóibh ar fáil go dtí 2021. Iarraim ar an Aire é sin a shoiléiriú. Níl...

Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I return to the section 23 reliefs for properties that are not sold. The Minister spoke of proportionality, but it is wrong if the Government is willing to allow for section 23 reliefs to be paid up until 2021. The whole country is demanding that we end these property based reliefs. I stated already that the Government is moving in the right direction, but it is fundamentally wrong to...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody should think that we in Sinn Féin underestimate the magnitude of the problems in our public finances. We have a structural deficit apart from the banking crisis that must and can be addressed. It has been caused by the Government's steadily eroding the tax base, allowing unemployment to rise and allowing a culture of waste and excess to develop in sections of the public sector....

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Secretary General of the Department of Finance still earns more than the permanent secretary to the treasury and the CEO of An Post earns more than the managing director of Royal Mail. We still earn far more than our neighbours in these areas but the Government made empty gestures to address this issue.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The message that comes from this Government is that protecting its own backside is its first and foremost concern. The same sort of yapping continues to come from the benches opposite.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Through the successful efforts of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, our public health budget subsidises the private health care sector to the tune of billions of euro although not everyone can afford private health care. This is where savings could have been made instead of sacking nurses, cutting front-line services and closing wards and beds. That is what Ministers...