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- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: Could we talk about the corporate tax rate of 12.5%? Does anybody take any notice of headline figures anymore?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: What is the effective tax rate here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: What does Mr. O'Leary tell people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: What is the effective tax rate in France?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: So the headline rate is not very relevant in European countries.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: So the 12.5% is not the relevant figure they examine, is it? The IDA flags that rate and it is a brand, but it is not the real figure. The French rate of 33% is utterly irrelevant if the effective rate is 8% or 9%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: So we are competing with France on an approximately level playing field.
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: How do the French get the effective tax rate down so low?
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: Why do we not do special deals?
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (19 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: 166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the issue of birth parents having to adopt their own natural children, as the Adoption Authority/State has no provision for step-parent adoptions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38960/13]
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: However, I guess the banks are simply saying that anybody who does not pay and is making a choice not to pay is a strategic defaulter. In other words, if they do not pay their health insurance, put food on the table or pay for other necessities such as the petrol in their car, that is okay, but if they choose to pay for the petrol in their car or pay for necessities when they have a choice,...
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: I have just one more sentence. It must be remembered that the blame for this crisis lies principally in one place, and those individuals and those institutions who should be shouldering that blame are the ones now being put in charge of its solution.
- Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: There is a gloomy sense of déjà vu about this motion because there is so little sign of a solution to the problem which has been haunting us for many years. Not only the previous Government but also this Government have been extraordinarily dilatory in attacking it when it was recognised a long time ago by virtually everybody. This is because those dictating the pace have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: I will be very quick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: A mortgage is a different type of debt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: It is a different type of spending. It is a different type of discretionary expenditure. Where people are paying medical fees or for other necessities such as putting food on the table or petrol in the car, these are essentials. The debt they have got, their mortgage, is a two-way business. It is the borrower's fault as well as the lender's fault. Is there not a very good case,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: That is not the point I was making. The point I was making-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: The point I was making specifically is that the bank's guys lent recklessly to the guys it is now persecuting for the money. That is where Mr. Duffy should take the responsibility and not talk about prioritising the bank's particular debt above others. He should take some of the responsibility for it and accept the fact that the bank should be bottom of the queue and not top of the queue...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Shane Ross: That is right. It is very broad. I want to know specifically what Mr. Duffy has kept. Has he kept the tapes of the conversations between key people at the time?