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- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: The Minister stated, in introducing the measures on property-related legacy issues, that the cost was â¬400 million. Is the yield of â¬100 million a quarter of this? Does it mean the changes being made to the schemes will result in a yield that is 25% of the yield that might accrue if the pruning were more severe? What are the considerations in trying to make the restrictions more...
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: There was a fair amount of creativity in one of two of them to which the Deputy is referring.
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Is the Minister stating that a â¬200 million saving as distinct from a â¬100 million would not be proportionate?
- Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I do not disagree with the history provided by Deputy O'Donoghue on stamp duty and how it came to play such a significant role in the property transactions which took place here over the past 15 years in particular. It is not quite true to say nobody upset the apple cart as I remember a former colleague of the Minister for Health and Children famously announcing that his party had decided to...
- Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Somebody get Deputy Gogarty a soother.
- Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: It is a new China policy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (2 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the role he will play in the implementation of the recently published plan, Trading and Investment in a Smart Economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45540/10]
- Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (2 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding his discussions with the main banks to ensure that credit is made available to all businesses and particularly to small and medium sized enterprises; when he last met the banks to discuss these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45541/10]
- Written Answers — National Pensions Reserve Fund: National Pensions Reserve Fund (2 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the companies excluded from the National Pensions Reserve Fund investment portfolio under Part IV of the Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008, as a result of those companies' involvement in the cluster munitions or anti-personnel mines industries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45727/10]
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (2 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will publish the report prepared by him following the recent Dignity (Daphne III) Project visit to Sweden; his views on whether replicating the ban on the purchase of sex is feasible in Ireland; when the report will be available to Members of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45703/10]
- Written Answers — On-farm Investment Schemes: On-farm Investment Schemes (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason planning permission is required for fencing in Natura areas under the sheep fencing grant scheme when it is not a requirement under the prescribed actions set out by the national parks and wildlife service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45205/10]
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Will the Deputy take a point of information?
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Did anyone tell the Deputy that a property tax is provided for in the document we are discussing?
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: It includes a provision to increase the property tax in each successive year.
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I sat in Cabinet with the Attorney General.
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: This document, which we received a couple of hours ago at the beginning of the debate, is a hospital pass. At the moment we are fortunate to have an exceptionally gifted generation of rugby players. However, this document is a hospital pass by this discredited Government to the next Government. Let us consider the document. It is remarkable that the Ministers can come in here, one after...
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I would feel more at home with it.
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: This document is a straitjacket. I doubt whether the Ministers of State, Deputies Roche and Mansergh, knew about it. Certainly Deputy Fahey did not know about it. He came in here and asked what would happen the middle class of Ireland if the Labour Party came into government and introduced a property tax, without knowing that the property tax is contained in the document and signed up to...
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: Will the Minister run a competition to name it?
- EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)
Pat Rabbitte: I will be brief because I feel somewhat like a victim in a Frederick Forsyth novel. This is a hospital pass to the next Government.