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Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: In tabling this amendment, the Sinn Féin Senator spoke about tenants. Another Sinn Féin representative, Eoin Ó Broin, stated that if council tenants are made to foot the bill they will be paying for properties they do not own. However, that is the norm in Northern Ireland. Private and council tenants pay property taxes. A party cannot take two different positions on tenants of a...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The Senator would be better staying off them.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Should we abolish it?

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It goes to Westminster.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: When it goes to Westminster one does not get it back.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I would like to make one more point. I do not like voting for a property tax if it leads to hardship for people. A reasonable majority of people know the difficulties that we are in and are quite prepared to pay, and 40% of properties in Donegal would not have to pay more than ¤90. When Donegal people compare that sum with what their cousins in Strabane and Derry are paying, they will...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State. The issue of property tax is an emotive one at such a difficult time in the economy, but there are many myths and rumours about. One that keeps being trotted out by certain people is that we pay stamp duty but no one else in Europe does. In all of Europe people pay stamp duty or transaction tax on their properties. I have researched the matter and...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I suggest to Senator Marc MacSharry that he telephone Pádraig Flynn to ask him for advice on the roads in Sligo. Perhaps he could provide some useful information, given that he made a fair fist of it in Mayo at the expense of counties such as Donegal. Mayo received millions for roads that went nowhere while counties such as Donegal had potholes filled occasionally. I call for a debate on...

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Apologise.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Fianna Fáil was in government.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: That is not a matter for Fianna Fáil and the people will decide.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: My father-in-law - God rest him - was a rural garda for many years and my wife was born in a Garda station, along with many of her brothers and sisters. The day is gone when a garda lived in a station, working for almost 24 hours a day, 365 days in the year. That was the way policing worked in this country but we have moved on. I stand to be corrected but I do not believe a garda lives in...

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I am not prepared, as someone else was due to lead, but I do not need notes to answer the motion or defend the Government's role. Instead of raising the issues Senator O'Brien did today or last week, he should have been considering them throughout the past decade.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: There are two issues to this matter - pay rates for gardaí and rural stations.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes. If the Senator will not interrupt, I will continue. We cannot deny the statistics we have read on the proliferation of police stations compared with other modern economies. In the UK, excluding Scotland, for example, there are 1,600 police stations. We had almost 700 at one point, nearly half of the number in the UK, excluding Scotland, with its population of more than 55 million....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The Opposition is again challenging decisions that the current Government has made mainly because of the former Government's inaction. It is a mantra. Senator Norris, who has left the Chamber, mentioned that the Members were not-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: He mentioned that the Fianna Fáil Senators were not members of the last Government. I am sorry to disappoint him, but they were.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Senator Leyden referred to the appointment of members of political parties to State boards. I was a member of Letterkenny Town Council for 17 years. For 15 of those years, every position on every committee was unapologetically and gleefully taken up by Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: My question relates to Senator Leyden's call on the Minister. Fianna Fáil should consider the damage it did to public bodies over the years between county councils-----