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Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Up they go.

Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: It is €40 million extra.

Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Correct. Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolution No. 14: EXCISE — Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: That is correct. It is phase 1 of its introduction.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: I refer to Financial Resolution No. 10 dealing with deposit interest retention tax. This is an extraordinary measure given the emphasis in the past few weeks on the need to encourage savings with the banks, to address the issue of liquidity in the banking system and the measures the Government had to take to address those issues in another arena. A penalty of 3% is being imposed on people...

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: The Government cannot pretend one week it is concerned about the financial institutions and their solvency and liquidity and then hammer the customer the following week. It is the ordinary consumer who puts a few bob into a savings account in a bank that is being hammered. In case he or she escapes all the other traps the Government has laid, in it comes with the heavy hand and clobbers him...

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Tánaiste think the Government should get any of it?

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Should there be no DIRT?

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: The Government should get rid of it if it does not need it.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: That is the first time we have heard that one.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: They only get clobbered a small bit.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Brilliant.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: They are lucky to escape.

Financial Resolution No. 13: Stamp Duties (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: The Tánaiste does not need to apologise.

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Nettles.

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Any increase in VAT will have a negative impact on business at a time when the latter can ill afford it. Business has come through an extremely difficult time during the past 12 months, particularly in the context of increased oil prices, transport costs, etc. To pile on something of this nature, which will impact on both consumers and those in the business sector, at this stage is hugely...

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: There is no such alternative available. Pretending that there is by providing a grant in respect of bicycles — a proposal with which they Green Party came up — will prove cold comfort for motorists. I hope the bicycles in question will all have saddles——

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Bernard Durkan: ——or people will be even more uncomfortable. No group in society has been hammered more often during the past two to three years than motorists.