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Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a genuine question. If these facilities are charging users, are they businesses within the business?

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no way I will allow the amendment to pass unopposed if the Minister does not answer our questions.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendments have been recommitted previously. We have genuine questions.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am always suspicious of capital allowances, given what has been happening with capital allowances in other areas, for example, the scandal of the intangible assets, which we will discuss later. Anyway, a range of other allowances are simply mechanisms through which profitable enterprises avoid tax and reduce their tax liabilities. I assume the logic the Minister is putting forward in...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are just telling the Minister that Peter McVerry supports the Bill.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then why does Fr. Peter McVerry support this Bill?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not suggesting for one minute that this piece of legislation is the solution to the housing crisis or homelessness. This Bill is simply a measure to ensure that people in the most desperate situations, who are victims of the failure of successive Governments and housing authorities, are not further persecuted and victimised beyond what they have had to endure so far from the lack of...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to clarify that while there is obvious disagreement on all this, it is on individual earners. It is not on the joint cumulative earnings of a couple. The Minister of State's assertion is not the case. Our big problem in this country is we do not have enough teachers and nurses and young people coming out of university who could be doing these jobs. I refer also to occupational...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not care how they feel about these tax changes.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that. The Deputy should not make things up.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my comrades.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “4.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the additional revenue that could be raised by introducing new tax bands for earnings over €100,000 as follows:(a) earnings between €100,000 and €140,000 - 50 per cent, (b) earnings between...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the Minister's confusion about the criticism of the tax reductions because different things are being said by different people in this House. To clarify, we did not criticise the Government at any point for proposing tax changes to low and middle earners. Sinn Féin and the Labour Party did, as did others, and they are entitled to do so. Our criticism was that those tax...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is true.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt Deputy Burton.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party stood over the USC but working people hate the USC. We are not proposing that working people should not pay, as they do, the 20% tax on the first €30,000 or €40,000 of their income and then 40% over and above that but we are saying they should not pay the USC, which was an austerity tax. We are saying that getting rid of that for people earning less than...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We hold on to those policies.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is not discussed anymore, which I mentioned in my initial contribution, is wealth and income redistribution. We can argue from budget to budget about marginal moves this way or that way and in so doing not see the wood for the trees. By that I mean a staggering growth in the gap between rich and poor and a staggering growth in the differential between the highest earners and the lowest...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will move on to that later.

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:In page 8, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “3. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the cost and implications of abolishing the Universal Social Charge for everyone earning less than €90,000 per annum.”. This amendment seeks a report on abolishing the universal social charge for...