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Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome that greatly.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The fiscal powers of the North are, unfortunately, located in London.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: My party alone of all the political parties in the House is working tooth and nail, night and day to bring those fiscal powers from London back to Ireland. That is our clear objective.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We welcome the sunny day that we will have those taxes back in this country.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt in my mind that on the sunny day when fiscal power has been returned to Ireland from London, we will order our taxation system in the manner we seek to here also.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some of the political parties in this Chamber often say that while Sinn Féin is in government in the North, it is not a real government and is only an administration.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On the flip side, however, when we talk about fiscal powers, they complain about our policies on fiscal powers in the North. It is incongruous to say on the one hand that the Administration is not the same as the Government down here and then to blame that Administration for its lack of taxation powers in the North.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The SNP is fighting tooth and nail like us against London to stop the Tory cuts within society. That does not mean that there does not need to be public services provision. The tax-to-GDP ratio in this State is far lower than the average in Europe. With regard to taxation, we have a bit to go before we can say that we are taxing people too much. The Netherlands has one of the highest...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Our worry is that the Fiscal Advisory Council is saying Fine Gael is a threat to stability.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It did not say so in so many words. I admit that I am paraphrasing. It said the party's taxation policies and the shift from personal taxation to a volatile corporation taxation sector is very damaging.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is also talking about the reduction of USC constituting a threat of inflation or to the delivery of public services. Sinn Féin is saying, "By all means create a broad tax base, but do so in a way that reflects the incomes of individuals". Why design a tax rate that is ignorant of the incomes of individuals? For nearly 300 years, western society has been trying to order its tax to...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“3. (1) The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 is hereby repealed in its entirety.(2) This repeal will be deemed to have come into operation on the date of enactment of this Act.”. The purpose of the Sinn Féin amendment is to exempt everybody in society from the local property tax,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Or a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Government.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are likely to have to eat their Christmas dinner elsewhere. Members of the Government will stand in the photographs highlighting this disaster while the people to whom I refer will still be expected to pay their property tax. That is cynical. I find this Bill cynical because it represents and admission that the value of a house no longer represents the wealth of a family. A recent...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If property price inflation continues, the average family will face a property tax bill approximately €180 higher by 2019. As a result, the Fine Gael backbenchers from south Dublin and elsewhere come into the House and create a racket and burn the ear off the Minister for Finance. They say that now, as the election approaches, people are facing a massive increase in property charges...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There are no Labour Party Deputies present in the House. However, Labour Party Deputies have been singing about this matter during the past year. Where they are on local authorities with Sinn Féin, which has been using its mandate to reduce local property tax, they have been criticising what Sinn Féin has been doing and saying it is hollowing out the income of local authorities,...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin has submitted amendments and I hope we will have time to debate them. It will be a travesty if we do not. I hope the Government will respond and say that it will amend the Bill to ensure that exemptions will include people suffering as a result of the floods. Mention was made of exemptions from the tax for people whose homes have been affected by pyrite but only 80 people...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire freagra a thabhairt ar an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire Stáit faoi "stability" i gcomhthéacs an cáin mhaoine áitiúil. Dúirt sé go bhfuil an cáin seo mar shaghas tacaíochta do "stability". It is clear that the Minister of State has not been listening to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's latest...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Exactly. There is no doubt about it.