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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: I call Deputy Dara Calleary, who has been patient, and Deputy Burton.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: How does the co-operation of the company that Mr. Hession mentions manifest itself?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The review was requested.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: A review was specifically requested on the corporation tax receipts of 2015 so I do not know if we can blame the officials.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: To contextualise it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Will the officials do that now?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The members of the committee might be included.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: It would be terrific if the secretariat could be included as well.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Who will take those questions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The committee will be issuing its report, overview and recommendations on the budgetary process before the budget.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: Is it on the website?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The witnesses are going to do this and have committed to coming back with five year data. On top of that, Mr. McCarthy said in his opening statement that the Minister for Finance has asked Seamus Coffey, chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, to undertake a review of the sustainability of corporation tax receipts, and that report is due to be submitted to the Minister at the end of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
John Lahart: The parliamentary budget office might help us on this, whenever it is established. I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and contributions today.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: I welcome the Environmental Pillar. The witnesses want to tax everything, which is really interesting. It is almost utopian from an environmental point of view. I am going play devil's advocate, if I may. Are coffee cups recyclable?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: So they are recyclable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: That is okay.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: It is not a big deal, though. What I am coming at is that the witnesses want to tax everything. People are hard pushed enough. I get a coffee in the morning that costs €2 and the witnesses want me to pay €2.10 or bring my own cup. That is practical but we would need a reasonably long lead-in time. When the plastic bag levy came in, a constituent of a former colleague of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: Starting from first principles, the energy involved in creating a plastic bag is significantly less than that required to create a paper bag, or so I am told. There are a whole load of pluses and minuses. I am really interested in the aggregates charge. Ms O'Brien might repeat her statistics. She said that 1% of demolition-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: Construction and demolition waste in Ireland compared with?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)
John Lahart: In?