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Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: How dare the Taoiseach say that?

Other Questions: Tax Compliance (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is Government policy.

Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister is making it sound like a holy creed that the State should not intervene in bank decisions. That is the Minister's view.

Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: That would not be the view of most ordinary people outside. For example, "commercial reasons" was the reason given for not informing the Minister's Department about the sale of Siteserv DNC Sierra. That whole debacle was for commercial reasons. The Minister did not find out about that until a month after it had happened. When the taxpayer is pumping money in, I do not see why the State...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I know.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Not for the first time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: They do not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Revenue is well aware of it.

Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department has had any discussion with Allied Irish Banks over the outsourcing of application and development management, ADM, services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24507/15]

Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: My information is that the ADM department is being outsourced to India and that skilled IT staff have been told this and will be forced out of the bank. This is a bank that the so-called we own 99.8% of, yet the Government is agreeing not to intervene in any way in AIB's employment practices and job losses.

Other Questions: Bank Restructuring (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I asked a bunch of questions to which the Minister gave the same answer, namely, under the relationship framework, the State does not intervene in the day-to-day operations of the bank or management decisions on commercial matters. We put money in continually, but we are not bothered by jobs being shed. The Government could change this relationship if it wanted to. Since we paid to bail...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Last year's J.J. Rhatigan dispute, which lasted over six months, brought to public attention the reality of life for construction workers under the so-called recovery. These skilled workers, thanks to a system of subcontracting and bogus self-employment, even if they do not want to be self-employed, are forced to live on an income that does not meet the rates provided for in the registered...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Cynicism about politics and this Chamber is at an all-time high, and it is unbelievably patronising of the Minister to come out with an answer in which he spent time telling me the address of the Revenue Commissioners' website. If one examines what the State is losing in tax receipts for directly employed workers in the sector in the period I mentioned - 2008 to 2014, inclusive - it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance noting the lower returns to the Revenue Commissioners in recent years, arising from an increase in sub-contracting and self-employment in the construction sector, and the resultant increased use of relevant contracts tax, his views on the measures the Revenue Commissioners and his Department have taken, or are taking, to ensure that relevant contracts tax...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Noting the low returns in recent years from relevant contracts tax, RCT, arising from an increase in sub-contracting and self-employment in the construction sector, will the Minister make a statement on what measures the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Finance have taken or will take to ensure that RCTs are not used in a manner that denies workers in the sector the basic rights...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Eurozone Crisis (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is it not true that the most important thing for the Minister and the Government is to see that Greece does not get any deal they could not get and that no write-down of debt be given? The Minister stated that he had been helpful to the Greek authorities. I do not think it was very helpful to ask for the noose placed there by the ECB to be tightened around the necks of the Greek people and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Eurozone Crisis (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his discussions with other European Union Ministers for Finance regarding Greek debt, related agreements between Greece and the European Union and the latest situation in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24698/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Eurozone Crisis (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This question is unbelievably timely. The question on the lips of every working person in this country is why is the Minister reported today in the media as being the toughest negotiator, demanding the Greeks be brought to heel and not be given a just debt solution and a write-down on their debt. This is in total contrast to the ordinary people of this country who demand solidarity be shown...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Eurozone Crisis (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will the Minister confirm if it is true that he insisted that emergency funding and financial support for Greece would be reduced unless it retracted its demands for a sustainable debt write-down? Is that true? Was the Minister on the side of the Germans in demanding that Greece not get a deal? Is the Minister aware there has been a 35% increase in suicides since 2010, directly linked to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the outsourcing of application and development management services by Allied Irish Banks; his views regarding outsourcing of these services, in view of the central role the bank's payment services and information technology play in the Irish economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24508/15]