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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The witnesses want a Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Both submissions make the same point about cuts rather than taxes. I am not saying there should not be any cuts, but I question whether there might be taxes. In order to pay a contribution for a service one has to have income. Income is the flow out of which taxes can be paid. When everything is in balance, as Mr. Ronan Lyons said in the previous submission, one can have a tax from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I am asking why they both make the same point. Here is a reason for suggesting their presumption is misplaced. They say it in two lines in both submissions. The submissions contain some good points about supporting investment and jobs through the tax system. Points Nos. 1, 2 and 3 under that heading are imaginative, creative and realistic. I come back, however, to the fundamental point...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: An addiction tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: We have moved from alcohol to cigarettes. Advertising on the packaging indicates such products damage health and there are now pictures to illustrate that. People from the tobacco industry indicated that the volume of cigarettes sold illegally for consumption is now huge. Do the witnesses have updated figures? From every ten cigarettes smoked, how many are smuggled and how many are bought...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The industry representatives had figures of 30% or 40%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Do they look in bins to see where the packages came from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The figures are substantial because the price differential is very large. Apparently, a person can buy cigarettes on the black market at a quarter or a fifth of the price in a shop. A shop may charge €10 for a packet of cigarettes that is sold for €2 or €3 on the black market. That is a major incentive for crime, as the Chairman mentioned. The penalties for bringing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Is that doable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: That is all we want to know. A site value tax relates to the income generation capacity of any site, either in the form of rental for a house, office block or factory. There should be a sensible economic connection with the piece of physical land, and it would be a fair basis for starting the collection of a tax. If there is income from land, there is an ability to pay tax from the income.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I have a couple of general points to raise. I understand the desire of the drinks industry not to be the subject of further tax increases. However, I am confused to hear that the consumption of alcohol is down by 20% in less than ten years. I refer to a recent report which said the very opposite by stating that in the period 1970 to 1990, there was a doubling of alcohol consumption and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Could it be that many of the people who emigrated, who are single and do not have a family, were heavy drinkers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: Those aspects are a bit depressing. I want to deal with the nub of the issue which is the marketing, advertising and merchandising of alcohol. The quid pro quo is that if the industry wants a stay on any further taxation on alcohol, it should be the promoter rather than the Government or Members of the Oireachtas who seeks containment of merchandising and advertising. In my view, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I apologise for interrupting, but rugby is Heineken now. A Heineken can equals a rugby ball visually, and it is also on the jerseys. It is the same with regard to Bulmers and Guinness with Arthur's day. Arthur Guinness, the man who discovered the drink and made it, did not drink. Do the consumers know that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: There is advert for Budweiser with three buddies which is currently on the screens. The three buddies are going around and it is so cool, I feel tempted to go out and get a bottle of Budweiser.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: The fact that everyone is laughing means I have hit the button. I have actually hit the nerve. I suggest the witnesses think about it. They should be brave and help us to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I do not have drink taken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Minister and his colleagues for attending. Three things struck me when I looked through the paper. The two main reinforced steel joists of the meeting are the capitalisation of the banks and the role of a central European banking supervisor. The rest of the issues are packed in around those two issues. There is a darkening shadow of debt over Europe. Politicians across the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I want this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 Nov 2012)
Peter Mathews: I am asking the Minister to bring-----