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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: This question asks whether, in view of the staggering inequalities in wealth in Ireland, the Minister will establish a database on wealth and whether he will introduce a wealth tax for households with wealth in excess of €1 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Credit Suisse bank report shows the top 10% own 58.6% of wealth, while the top 5% and top 1% own 46.4% and 27% of the wealth, respectively. This concentration of wealth at the very top is extraordinary on any democratic basis. Moreover, the most affluent 20% in Ireland own 73% of the country's wealth, while the poorest 20% owned just 0.2%. The poorest 10% have negative wealth, while...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: In view of these extraordinary levels of wealth at the very top, I again ask the Minister whether he will impose a wealth tax on households with wealth in excess of €1 million. In addition, will he create a database of wealth?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The most recent institutional sector accounts published by the Central Statistics Office show that net financial assets of households are €25 billion above peak boom levels. They have grown massively over the past five years and there is no levy, charge or tax on them. In addition, the Central Bank report for the third quarter of 2015 reported that Irish household net worth was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is the majority shareholder in these banks and he has obviously given permission to the banks to repossess family homes. He could equally instruct these banks not to go down this road and repossess family homes. He could call an emergency meeting of these bank boards and instruct them not to repossess family homes. I ask him to do so immediately and if bank directors do not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: We are not asking anybody to do that at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will insist that Allied Irish Bank and its subsidiary the Educational Building Society and Permanent TSB, which are in majority State ownership, desist from seeking repossession of family homes through the Courts and withdraw all such existing applications before the Courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1426/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: Allied Irish Banks, the Educational Building Society and Permanent TSB are in majority State ownership. They are adding to homelessness and the housing crisis by repossessing family homes. I am asking the Minister, as the majority shareholder, to instruct the banks to desist from this practice.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: There is a tsunami of homelessness in this country. Last November, the Dublin Homeless Executive provided figures according to which some 1,425 children in 677 families were in emergency accommodation. The Dublin Simon Community said that was unacceptable and shameful. Focus Ireland said that the Government had failed these families. The Master of the High Court, Mr. Edmund Honohan,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance given that the richest 10% and the poorest 10% pay approximately the same proportion of their income in all taxes, if he will urgently introduce tax reform measures which will ensure the richest 10% pay a significantly higher proportion and the poorest 10% pay a significantly lower proportion of their respective incomes in all taxes than is currently the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Lobbying Data (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of representations made to him in 2015 by representatives and lobbyists from all sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1317/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance given that net financial assets of households, including shares and bank deposits, are well above peak boom level, if he will place a tax on such assets above €500,000 per household to fund much needed investment in health and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1319/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the figures on income tax, in bands of €10,000 ranging from €0 to €2 million plus, including the gross income, the numbers, the percentage of total numbers, the average income, the income tax paid, the universal social charge paid, the total tax including universal social charge, the total income after all tax paid, the average income...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Prices (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the continuing upward spiral in house prices and rent in 2015 and the increasing concentration of property ownership in the hands of a small number of large corporate investors, in terms of macroeconomic stability and the capacity of ordinary families to access affordable accommodation; his proposals to deal with this situation; and if he will...

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: I compliment all those involved in the response to the recent spate of flooding, including county council staff, the Civil Defence, gardaí, the Red Cross, Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue, the Army, volunteers, residents affected by the flooding and their neighbours, and the fire service. There was significant flooding in Tipperary right along the Suir catchment from Carrick-on-Suir back to...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: Yesterday, we learned of the closure of the C&C plant, formerly Gleeson's, at Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, with the loss of 140 jobs. I can only describe as shameful the fact that the workers and their families learned of this closure in the pages of The Irish Timesand on local radio. It is a disgraceful way to treat workers who have been loyal to the company for many years, and...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: This closure comes on the back of job losses in Intellicom, Grant's, Supervalu in Tipperary town, the Fairgreen supermarket in Carrick-on-Suir and Supervalu in Clonmel. The Government has forgotten Tipperary. Like the Minister earlier this afternoon, the Taoiseach has washed his hands of the situation in Borrisoleigh. The number of unemployed in Tipperary, 13,000, is significantly...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: It is the same question.

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The decision to close Borrisoleigh makes me angry because it is quite obvious to everybody that C&C acquired Gleeson's with the sole intention of closing it down. It had a number of goes at that, including 40 redundancies not too long ago. The Minister referred to commercial realities. The commercial realities are that this company is very profitable, making in the region of...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (13 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The decision by C&C to close the plant in Borrisoleigh and the manner in which that became public are absolutely deplorable. I can only describe as shameful the fact that workers and their families learned of the closure from the pages of The Irish Timesand local radio. It is a disgraceful way to treat workers who have given loyal service at Gleesons for many years - some for as...