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- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: I understand there has been-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: There are elements of what the Government has done that we believe are unfair. What new initiatives is the Government-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: -----going to introduce to ensure this-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: A Cheann Comhairle, this-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: A Cheann Comhairle, in fairness-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister, when responding, was given more than five minutes to do so.
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: We get very little time to ask questions.
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: If the Ceann Comhairle did not continually interrupt me-----
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: It is very hard for me to ask my question when I am being constantly interrupted.
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: I would be able to put my question in the time allocated if I was not being continually interrupted.
- Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: It is unfair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister said there was a fiscal space of roughly €12 billion. Is that over five years?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: Okay. That is obviously a higher estimate than would have been in discourse previously, which was €8 billion over the next five years. However, the key issue is the effect that cutting USC will have. There is no doubt that workers need a break. They have suffered massively over the last number of years and we need to ensure that they have money restored to their pockets. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: Someone on the median wage - and we must remember that half the population earn €28,000 or less - would receive €860 back. Given those major disparities in the amounts that would be returned, is it not the case that the abolition of the USC is an unfair way to redistribute some of the benefits in the State?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: I sense that there may be a row-back in terms of Government policy, because the Taoiseach was advocating a €4 billion USC return to the State over the next five years. Whether it is 50% of the fiscal space returned in USC or one third, as the Minister says today, that has to be contrasted with the level of investment in the State. In the spring statement, the Minister said that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: It also means that other issues, such as the creaking M50 that becomes chock-a-block after one accident, will not be resolved. It means that infrastructural projects like the Navan to Dublin rail line will not be built. How is it that we will try to achieve European levels of investment in public services and infrastructure on what is an American tax base?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: So investment will increase for the time being.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance in absolute terms, and as a percentage of the predicted available fiscal space, the cost of abolishing the universal social charge within the next five years; the gain for a person earning €185,000 of such an abolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1515/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an Aire tar éis a chóir leighis. Is maith an rud é go bhfuil cuma breá folláin air arís. There is great pressure on the infrastructure of this State and on our public services. There is also great pressure on low and middle income earners. However, there is a dangerous habit in this State of governments shifting the tax base from...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (14 Jan 2016)
Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to reduce the cost of credit to small and medium enterprises, and to fix the broken flow of credit from State-created credit facilities. [41755/15]