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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Can Mr. Irwin say with some level of certainty this afternoon that some clients will have to borrow in 2015 in order to meet their tax liabilities - clients who in normal circumstances would not have to borrow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Irwin and call Deputy Michael McGrath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Redmond. I propose that we take ten minute slots. Is that agreed? Agreed. To get the business under way, Mr. Redmond has been involved in the consultation process with the Department of Finance on the issue and the concern is that what is a system change could result in a credit flow problem. We all have to adjust to system changes but the net consequence of this change can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Will Mr. Redmond explain to me the modelling in terms of the predictability? Ms O'Brien spoke about certainty. We all try to get certainty but how has the modelling improved? Ms Clarke stated that the forms have become more elaborate. How has that modelling given greater certainty? I think the point Mr. Redmond is trying to make, putting aside the credit issues, is that it does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will now deal with No. 7, report on decisions regarding scrutiny of EU proposals. This item is purely technical as the joint committee wishes to read into the public record the recommendations of the sub-committee on EU scrutiny and put on record the decision of the joint committee in regard to these recommendations. The following COMs were dealt with today: COM (2013) 547 - a proposal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Changes to Pay and File Tax Date: Discussion with Irish Tax Institute (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will now move on to No. 8, the proposed changes to the pay and file tax date. I welcome Mr. Mark Redmond, chief executive of the Irish Tax Institute, who is accompanied by Ms Cora O'Brien, Mr. Billy Irwin and Ms Sandra Clarke. Mr. Redmond and Ms O'Brien will make some opening remarks which will be followed by a question and answer session. I remind members, witnesses and those in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Redundancy Payments (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect of changes to top slicing relief as applied to a redundancy package being offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49637/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Implementation (20 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding the issue of carbon taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49727/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (14 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made on an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48631/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: There is a vote being called in the Dáil and I wish to finish this meeting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: How stands the amendment?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 65 and 74 are related and may discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 54 to 63 have been ruled out of order.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We are moving into the realm of repetition.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am trying to be fair here. The Minister has indicated that the-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister has indicated that the amendment is being withdrawn. There are other Members who wish to contribute to this debate. We can stay here until midnight, I do not mind, but I will be much stricter about repetition. If I am hearing the same argument being repeated over and over, I will intervene. That is not to say Members do not have something valuable to say, but if they are...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am sorry but I must intervene now. I ask Deputy Boyd Barrett to cite the section of the amendment to which he is speaking. We can have a conversation on the report of the committee, a conversation about the NUJ and so forth and we can have further arguments on this issue but I am going to be strict about the rules from now on. I am now asking Members to refer specifically to the part of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: In general, we deal with the broader points when discussing the section itself.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy wants to be pedantic-----