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Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: We need to consider the matter in some detail. The Minister also made several disastrous decisions off his own bat in previous Finance Bills. The first was the 1% stamp duty on contracts for difference. When representatives of the investment houses and brokers contacted the Minister to say they would not have it, the Dublin exchange became a bubble for contract for difference transactions....

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister's reply is very disappointing. One of the issues the commission — I noted its imbalanced composition and counted 11 or more persons connected with taxation advisory services of one kind or another — should address is that, unfortunately, we have grown a rather unequal society in recent years where there are millionaires who pay no tax. We have the phenomenon of persons who...

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: I knew there were royal connections but I was not quite sure what they were. Does it make it better though?

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 11, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "PART 1 TAXPAYERS' ADVOCATE OFFICE 1.—The Ombudsman shall include in her annual report a special report on the overpayment of tax by PAYE taxpayers, and on the take up of credits by such taxpayers, and the branch of her office dedicated to ensuring that the take up of credits is readily available to all...

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: I am disappointed that the Minister's reply is so dull and unimaginative. The Minister seems very active with regard to facilitating well-off people who can afford accountants and tax lawyers to engage in tax planning and making it lucrative for them. The Minister will argue that this has its appropriate place in the system. It is sad that the Minister lacks the imagination to see what...

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Deputy Mansergh adores all Fianna Fáil Taoisigh, past and to be. He is only continuing his tradition of incredible adoration of the late Charles J. Haughey——

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: ——his current adoration of the Taoiseach and his loyal adulation of the person whom we presume, according to the current Taoiseach, will be the next Taoiseach. That is all good fun and Fianna Fáil politics. We do not mind that, but we would like a fair deal for the ordinary taxpayer.

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: That is what the amendment is about. I urge the Minister to reconsider.

Finance Bill 2008: Report Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: I draw the issue of management companies to the attention of the Minister and his officials. Most of the many thousands of apartments and new housing developments in the greater Dublin region and most towns and cities around the country are subject to management companies which, typically, have charges of €350 to approximately €3,000 per year. If it is an apartment, the normal fee is...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The first mate then.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Labour Party horse will be called Best Mate.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: It is just sad that the Taoiseach makes the distinction. These people are on the point of dying.

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 26 February 2008, the number of taxpayers and the proportion of taxpayers for the years 2007 and 2008 paying tax at the standard rate who are nominally liable to pay tax at the higher rate before such credits are taken into account. [9008/08]

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he and his Department became aware of the proposed sale by a whistle-blower to European Governments of a list of residents from different jurisdictions with bank accounts in Liechtenstein as has recently happened in Germany; if there has been a proposal to provide the relevant Irish authorities with such a list in return for a...

Written Answers — HSE Service Plan: HSE Service Plan (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when, during each year from 2005 to 2008 she has approved or will approve the annual service plan for the Health Service Executive which sets out the level of services which it is proposed to provide in any given year; the procedure for this approval; their different arrangements, which may have previously existed in some areas and...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the national review of autism services, particularly in so far as this relates to the catering for the health needs of children through a service (details supplied); if a model code of practice has been developed for the provision of autism services; if not, when this is foreseen; her views on the possible...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review the decision to prohibit the use of the Port Tunnel by the 41X bus service in order to better serve the people living in an estate (details supplied) and surrounding areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8720/08]

Crime Prevention. (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans for the establishment of the new Garda organised crime unit; the personnel and resources that will be made available to the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8964/08]

Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Joan Burton: The Minister should take the bus. He should take one of the non-available buses in Dublin.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Joan Burton: How? We cannot raise them or talk about them.