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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: We are looking at property, wealth and income taxes as part of what Professor Barrett is prescribing. What is his view of the wealth tax model prescribed in France and how it has affected the state and wealth of the French nation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: Does it have to do with negative equity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: More than 100,000 people have a form of stressed mortgage and the level of mortgage arrears is increasing all the time. That is the negative equity generation. Property tax is usually a form of wealth tax, but if one is in negative equity-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: Could someone deal with the funds issue for banks? They are borrowing money on the wholesale market more expensively. My question is how this issue can be addressed in Europe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: I will be specific and deal with five topics. On growth and the models the witnesses have used to predict how the economy will grow over time, we are down to between 7% and 9% of the amount of the credit that was provided through the banks at the height of the boom. What do the witnesses consider would be an acceptable level of credit for banks to provide, how that would stimulate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: It was just too much for too long or perhaps I should chair the committee for a while.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: Good. I was hoping the Deputy would listen to me for a while. I wonder if those in Europe look on Ireland as being a good citizen in that it is doing everything right according to what it is being told by the troika, but I would point, as was mentioned, to the high number of emigrants, the number of people unemployed and people who are struggling financially. This leads me on to my next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: There are people here with the numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: That is their job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: I should hope so.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Allowances (27 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has changed its policy in relation to the payment of subsistence and travel allowance to members of the ambulance services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41044/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Digital Television Service Provision (26 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason RTÉ NL do not include the Ballydavid transmitter, County Kerry, in the list of 13 additional transmitter sites that will broadcast the new Saorview service; if RTÉ NL can guarantee full service to all of west Kerry through the transmitter site in Dingle; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (25 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for de facto relationship visas in view of the fact that all required documentation is submitted with the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40082/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: Two of my colleagues picked up on the matter I wish to address, namely, the consultation process. Point 2.2 of the CUMA's submission states that there is unanimity on the process, but many people seem to have problems with what has followed. Are the organisations working closely enough together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: Yes. I will not delve into it further. I agree with Ms Gilleece, in that the UK is trying to emulate what has been achieved in Ireland. I have researched the issue via the economic forum. There is a difference between rural and urban credit unions, yet I am not sure that it is reflected by the regulator or in the draft Bill. It should be taken into consideration. Deputy Heather...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be recalled for a surgical procedure to Kerry General Hospital [39948/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion with Irish League of Credit Unions (19 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: If the league is making a submission with amendments in the next few days, it should ask the committee to analyse the regional closure of banks and what the credit union movement can offer as opposed to what post offices can offer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion with Irish League of Credit Unions (19 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: It is high time the Central Bank and the regulator were reminded that no credit union anywhere in the country provided money for the building of an apartment block in Ballsbridge or the purchase of contracts for any of the financial institutions which brought the country to the state it is in or bought hotel or holiday resorts in Bulgaria. A credit union is a community-based institution and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion with Irish League of Credit Unions (19 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: I would like to see the Basel recommendations recognise that there is a community dimension as well the balance sheet focus that the AIBs of the world have had up to now. It is not solely about the bottom line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion with Irish League of Credit Unions (19 Sep 2012)

Arthur Spring: At the outset I wish to declare that I have been a member of the credit union movement since my first communion - that was where I was told to invest my money. It is high time the Central Bank and the regulator were reminded that no credit union-----