Results 5,761-5,780 of 35,563 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We use the mechanism relating to reports because that is the restriction placed on Opposition spokespersons. However, I agree with the Minister that we do not need more reports as we have the data. We have the data that indicates that the 1% in the State, the top earners who earn more than €250,000, some of whom earn far more than €1 million, are availing of massive pension...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: While the Minister defends the issue of gold-plated pensions, I reiterate that 4,200 individuals, all earning more than €300,000 are benefiting from the taxpayer to the tune of €350 million in tax reliefs. Essentially the taxpayer is putting money into their pension pots. I cannot stand over that. There are mechanisms. Yes, they have high incomes and they pay tax at the rate...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 13: In page 65, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on pension tax reliefs and subsidies 24.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the tax reliefs and subsidies applicable to pensions, including contributions and at drawdown, to assess their cost to the...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 12: In page 65, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on mortgage interest relief 24.The Minister shall, within one month of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of targeted, tailored and time-bound mortgage interest relief in respect of primary dwelling homes, considering options...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am going to press the amendment. It does not call for the introduction for the relief, as the Minister has said, at the standard rate. It calls on the Department to put forward a model that is targeted and tailored. The Minister and the House will be well aware that at different times during the phasing out of this relief right up to 2011, because the rates then reduced, in certain...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 11: In page 65, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 24.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to 8.3 per cent of annual rent to all private rental tenants not already in receipt of any State...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 9: In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following: “Report on Foreign Earnings Deduction 17.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the Foreign Earnings Deduction, the extent to which the relief has achieved its policy objectives and to review its qualifying criteria to...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am glad the Minister has learned that one.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Whatever the Minister's motivation, whether by design on accident, I would like to know how high rents will go before the penny drops with him that his policies are contributing to the housing crisis and the rental crisis. That is the point. Whatever about whether it was an accident or motivated, and I do not suggest it was motivated, the evidence of the Minister's time in Government is...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I will speak to my party's amendment No. 11. It was not today or yesterday that I started to raise with the Minister the need to introduce a rent credit. Time and again, he has taken the position of telling us a rent credit would go into the pocket of landlords. Those words were echoed by his party leader and the Taoiseach. Year after year, the Minister said a rent credit would make the...
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this. What is a level of success for the Minister? When will he say he has achieved it? If rents go up another 19% next year, will that be a failure? The Minister stated he was trying to correct the Dáil record and he did not mention the issue of reducing prices. That is the problem.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: He should be trying to reduce rents.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: He should be trying to reduce house prices. That is the problem here.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I have finished.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Which the Minister is now stealing.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I asked how high do they have to go before the penny drops.
- Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Before the penny drops.