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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Also, he has to provide for the Christmas bonus out of current year resources. Effectively, we are talking about a great deal of money coming through simply because of the growth in the economy, notwithstanding that the income tax profiles are behind. Moving on to another area, as the previous speaker said, if we are going to expand services to the level that the Minister spoke of, he may...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I raised the issue last year of the extraordinary amount of tax losses built up by the banks and by the construction industry. In this context, why would the Minister not introduce a minimum effective corporation tax and other tax rates, even including relevant capital taxes, in order that people who have very good advisers to help them to avoid and evade, not withstanding whatever schemes...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Can I just say-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I would say to the Minister on that point that the evidence shows otherwise. I would recommend that he develops courage around this. His two Fianna Fáil predecessors as Ministers for Finance agreed with me. They eventually commissioned a report on the cost of tax breaks. It took a little while longer to get that published but people were astonished at what it showed. This committee...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I cannot see any reason that it should not apply across the corporation tax front. I am talking of a minimum tax rate. We are talking about fairly low rates, which we would put forward, in a progressive way, and monitor, along with the annual reports on evasion and avoidance, in order that citizens can have the services that they would like to have.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I would add just one brief comment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I do not believe that as a society we can stand over corporations which are approaching or have exceeded €1 billion in recovered profits and which have in the notes to their balance sheets tens of billions of euros in terms of potential tax write-downs, meaning that for a considerable period of time they will pay no tax at all. That is beyond the comprehension of most ordinary...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Will it be increased?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Cultural Institutions (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the salary scales of national cultural institutions, for example, the National Gallery, the National Museum, the Natural History Museum and the National Library; if those salaries have been reviewed; the number of posts in each institution that are paid above €75,000 to €100,000 and over €100,000,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress she has made in fixing the date of the national famine memorial day; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (27 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will discuss with the management of the National Museum in Collins Barracks the erection of an exhibition commemorating An Gorta Mór with a selection of relevant artefacts presently in storage, detailing the famine and consequences of it and the National Famine Commemoration Day; and if she will make a statement on...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: We set aside that money, however.

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he anticipates the publication of outline details of the revised capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40354/17]

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister tell the House when the revised capital plan will be published and provide an indication of what it will contain?

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Does that include an actual date?

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: In December. Normally, this place goes on holidays by 20 December. As such, can we have an indication of the actual date?

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the plan include additional funding for the National Maternity Hospital? While planning permission has been granted, the Department of Health has warned that it does not have enough money to deliver major projects, including the National Maternity Hospital and primary care centres. We are talking about a disaster if what the Department of Health has been suggesting turns out to be...

Other Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme Review (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister's comments on the HSE and the Department of Health fill me with dread. That is based on experience. These guys know how to ask for a great deal of extra money and they do not move or do anything unless they get it. Given the clear bed shortage in Irish hospitals and the requirements of the National Maternity Hospital, the Minister's comments today do not fill me with positive...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish Michael Stone well in the position to which he has been appointed. There has been a total lack of apprenticeships for young men and women in the north inner city, particularly since the collapse in construction in 2008. The apprenticeships offered by famous educational institutions in the north inner city have always represented an important educational transit point in that area,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (26 Sep 2017)

Joan Burton: There will be very few locals living in that accommodation.