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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: This is not broadening the tax base.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: It is taking money from exactly the same people-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I am interested in the Tánaiste's painting of the brave new dawn. It has been a bad week and a bad year for the finances of the country. In view of the fact that the Taoiseach stated yesterday there would be no wave of repossessions, which runs contrary to what was stated in the Financial Times and other global media and about which the Government is so sensitive, why has the decision...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: It is because the troika has told the Government to do this. It will be open season on home owners in 2013 because that legislation will not plug a loophole, rather it will allow the banks to repossess at will.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: State-owned banks are going to be used as agents, with the connivance of the Government, to put people out of their own homes on a scale not seen so far.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: That is what the Minister for Finance has stated. In addition - this is the reason I say it will be open season on home owners - the Government has extraordinarily decided on the issue of a property tax that it will bring in the heavies to collect the money from those who are unable to pay.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: For some reason the Revenue Commissioners have been selected as the collectors of this tax, not any other body. Why is this? The reason is that people will have the property tax which they are unable to pay deducted at source. I am not talking only about the middle classes and high and middle income earners but also about people on social welfare who will be confronted with a situation...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: If we had an audience here of the great powers of Europe - the Central Bank, the IMF, European banks and Irish bankers - perhaps the motion of confidence might be passed. There are those who applaud the Government and those great outside powers to whose tune the Government is dancing. Ms Merkel salivates every time the Taoiseach arrives in Berlin with a bouquet of roses. He goes as a...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I do not come to this debate with any strong ideological position, but I am staggered by what the Government is doing through its cuts, particularly to carers. Like many of the Members on this side of the House, I spent some time outside Leinster House yesterday and some time in my constituency this morning discussing the proposed changes and was staggered by the fact that carers are...

Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: The most significant thing the Minister said in his speech this morning was that CIE, Iarnród Éireann and Bus Éireann had lodged their accounts in the Oireachtas Library in November. This Bill is an attempt to give a lifeline to CIE. We must ask why it needs a lifeline and we must ask why it lodged its accounts in November. November is inexplicably late and it is not the...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: The Minister for Finance is a kindly, avuncular man who is popular on all sides of the House. It was surprising, therefore, in the last two days to hear him growling in interviews when he was asked about the property tax. He has said at least twice that it is being left to the Revenue Commissioners to collect it and that the Revenue Commissioners are very good at collecting taxes. I find...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I think Deputy Adams would be best served in sending his budget submission to Brussels or Berlin instead of sending it to Merrion Street.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Today, middle Ireland is waking up with a feeling of foreboding. It is well aware that a draconian budget has been written elsewhere. Property owners, pensioners and people with mortgages they cannot pay are converting their anger into fear. This fear is not simply of what the Government is doing to them but of what is happening in Brussels and Berlin. They fear the property tax and they...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Moreover, they fear that those who have been victims of the banks will now become victims of the Governments whose banks have imposed this austerity upon them. Members can discuss the property tax, because it has been announced by the Government many times. The blow of that tax is not softened by the leaks coming from the Government benches. In particular, I refer to the kind of...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: ----- for those people who will be obliged to pay large sums on small properties as a result of property tax. What the Government has succeeding in doing is highly dangerous. By allowing European and foreign forces to write this budget, it is creating an unlikely coalition of the unwilling and those who are unable to pay in Ireland today.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: Moreover, the blow is not softened by the fact-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: It is not softened by the fact that in view of the fact-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: In view of the fact that last Monday, the Government and the French and German finance Ministers closed the door-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: ----- to any Greek deal for Ireland, would the Taoiseach consider taking the fight about this budget to Brussels, to Berlin and to Paris? Would he consider getting a bank deal first and producing a budget second?