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- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is because the Leas-Cheann Comhairle told us to shut up.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: You should do stand-up. You are brilliant. I would pay to see you.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Tánaiste is bluffing and blustering. He is only fooling himself and his choir.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome Financial Resolution No. 7. However, it is really disappointing what has happened in this respect in that, clearly, Fine Gael won the battle in the debate in terms of the wealthy paying their fair share. My party put three proposals to the Government, as the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Gilmore, will be aware. The first was a 1% tax on assets...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The second was the third rate of tax, at 48%, which would have raised €365 million. The third was the standardising of discretionary tax reliefs that would have raised approximately €969 million. Those were the three options given to the Government. If the Government wants to dispute what the wealth tax raises, it should apply it in and let us see what it raises. The...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It would want a big tin of Brasso for sure.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Boyd Barrett stated they would support it. Is Deputy McCarthy speaking of Fianna Fáil?
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We tabled parliamentary questions.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is where it is at in the Department of Finance.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy McCarthy is likening the Department of Finance to amateurs. That is what he is doing. It is terrible.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy McCarthy should withdraw that comment.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He is now calling the Department of Finance officials clowns.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Amateurs and clowns in the Department of Finance. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, might have to come in to the House make a statement.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I cannot believe the Taoiseach pulled that one.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We sought views from all the Departments.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What about the Taoiseach's backbenchers? There are a few right-wingers there.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We did.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I see Deputy McGinley is getting uptight.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: One must hand it to Fianna Fáil. While I welcome the motion on disability rights and the funding of services, it is yet another example of that party's unashamed brass neck. With this motion, it is attempting to reinvent itself as an advocate for those with disabilities.
- Funding of Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2012)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When one teases out the text, it says little aside from Fianna Fáil's stunning realisation "that it is unfair and unjust to cut services for people with disabilities". Had it any shame at all, it would have included a line apologising for the harm that it inflicted on people with disabilities and their families through the years.