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- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: -----and the tenth lowest in the OECD. The rate of 31.4% places Ireland first in Europe and tenth in the OECD.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: We are taking income tax, or take-home pay, back to where it was in 2006. With regard to the questions raised by Deputy Burton, it applies to all income other than income of less than â¬4,000. It does not include welfare income.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: Any income less than â¬4,004 is excluded but all income over â¬4,004 is included. This is applied at 2% up to â¬10,000, at 4% between â¬10,000 and â¬16,000 and at 7% above that.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: No, I mentioned in my opening comments that if somebody on a salary of â¬26,000-----
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The health levy only applied to salaries over â¬26,000 and the income levy applied to salaries over â¬15,000. The minimum wage will still be excluded from tax but will be included in this charge.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: Yes, that is correct.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: I will explain. The health levy is going and approximately â¬2 billion from the health levy will go into the health service.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The health levy goes to fund the public health system, a total of approximately â¬2.1 billion in 2010 with a shortfall of â¬400 million because of the level of unemployment. We recently moved a Supplementary Estimate to provide for this. Instead of this being an appropriation-in-aid from the Revenue and the Department of Social Protection, it will go into the central Exchequer and will be...
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The medical card exemption does not apply for anyone.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The medical card should be for medical needs and it has become a passport for school transport and many other things. We need to decouple it. One of the reforms being examined is to have a higher element of medical need attached to the medical card rather than the pure income which is not always fair.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: Deputy Naughten referred to Members' and Ministers' pensions being hit by 4% but the figure is 12%. Pensions at our level will be hit by a 12% reduction. When the Minister referred to 4% he was referring to an average of 4% but we will be subject to a reduction of 12% in pensions. All credits are being reduced by 10%. Payments to haemophiliacs, hepatitis C victims and thalidomide victims...
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The new minimum wage will be â¬15,000 and it will be outside the tax net.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The charge will apply but I said the income tax will not apply.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: The income levy applied to it previously.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: I take the Deputy's point.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: I move the following financial resolutions.
- Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: Financial Resolution No. 18 relates to capital acquisitions tax. This modifies group (a), (b) and (c) tax-free thresholds by 20%. These group thresholds depend on the relationship of the person making the gift or inheritance to the beneficiary of that gift or inheritance. The current thresholds are â¬414,799 for group A, and this will be reduced to â¬332,084; group B is reduced from...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: I move the following financial resolutions:
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (2 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: There are two vaccines licensed in Ireland to prevent HPV infection. Cervarix was licensed in September 2006 and Gardasil was licensed in September 2007. Both are therefore available privately for use under the direction of a medical practitioner and it is known that one insurer is offering a HPV vaccination service in some schools to girls not covered under the public scheme. The public...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Dec 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.