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- Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: The Green Party opposes the proposal to impose a guillotine on the Report Stage debate on the Finance Bill. This is the third year in a row that amendments have been introduced to the Finance Bill on Report Stage without having been discussed on any previous Stage. Many amendments will not be debated because they will not be reached. The Report Stage debate is on amendment No. 13 of 61...
- Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: There is still time.
- Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the papers presented to her by the NCCA at the end of January 2005; and if she will be acting upon the recommendations contained therein. [7950/05]
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: I hope the Minister will be suitably shocked should the imminent report on tax reliefs contain the obvious conclusion that many of these reliefs were introduced without any cost-benefit analysis and that many of them have continued in the absence of such analysis. However, cost-benefit analysis alone is an empty formula for deciding many policy objectives. These amendments highlight the...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: That is the implication I am picking up and has been the theme followed through by many on the Government benches. If one considers this model and the associated circumstance in which young families are being brought up at arm's length, there is an obvious need for incentives that will protect the idea of family within the setting of a family home and protect the care needs of families as far...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: We have corporation tax.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: The Minister cannot have it both ways, his hands are being tied.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: The Minister spoke of the philosophical differences between his party and the Opposition parties. This is nowhere more marked than in this provision in the Finance Bill. His predecessor believes his greatest achievement was individualisation of the tax system. The reality is very different. If anything, those measures saw the introduction of a two tier society with the rewarding of greed. The...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: ââhe must take this on board if he wants to leave an imprint on the type of society that will result from his economic policies. The ugly side of the Celtic tiger is the imprint left by his predecessor. It is those policies that we, on this side of the House, continue to oppose. The Minister has an opportunity to reverse and ameliorate his predecessor's effects on child care and caring in...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: Amendments Nos. 3 and 10 deal specifically with the possibility of index-linking tax bands, exemption limits and tax credits. I will discuss the amendments before considering some of the other issues that have been raised during the debate. Amendment No. 3 proposes to correct the imbalance that has arisen from recent budgets. I approve more of amendment No. 10, which goes further by seeking...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: It is not really.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: When the Minister makes that argument, he forgets to index-link the 1997 money. The figure of â¬11,000, which he regularly quotes in the House, is nothing like â¬11,000 in 1997 figures.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: When we are making deductionsââ
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: âânot only should we index-link the value of the money in inflationary terms, but we should also consider the additional moneys people are paying in other types of taxation.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: We should engage in a proper exercise.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his defence.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: We need to engage in a more honest exercise to determine the actual figure.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: I do not doubt that there has been an increase, but it is clear when one takes into account the two factors I have mentioned that it has not been anything like â¬11,000.
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: We will not need to have this argument in the future if the Minister accepts the principle of the amendments before the House. Index-linking should be accepted as a matter of course. It should be a policy priority when the Minister is compiling next year's budget and any subsequent budgets he might have the joy of bringing to the House. It should not be possible to play around with figures to...
- Finance Bill 2005: Report Stage. (9 Mar 2005)
Dan Boyle: The amendments before the House are the first of 61 amendments to be considered over approximately five hours. I am concerned that the House is being asked to deal on Report Stage with matters that were not discussed, or properly discussed, on Committee Stage. A similar approach was adopted during the consideration of the other two Finance Bills with which I have been involved in the House....