Results 61-80 of 4,002 for speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I would have said Fine Gael was pretty irrelevant in the recent by-election.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State did.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: What did the Minister of State say?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Section 16 concerns the help to buy scheme. We disagree with this scheme. The original costing suggested that the scheme would cost €130 million in total, however, we know that by August 2019, the cost was €206.4 million. The aim of the scheme is to help first-time buyers raise the 10% deposit to purchase a property but we know that the average help to buy purchase was above...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: This scheme does not do anything for housing. It benefits people who do not need it. There is an issue of deadweight here. I made clear, both here and on Second Stage, my party's objections to this. I oppose section the section.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: We need to examine the impact on low and medium earners before that is changed.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Until all that is done, can the flat-rate expense allowance regime not just be extended for another year until the impact has been properly assessed? The Minister of State said it will be introduced in January 2020.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I cannot accept this. I am worried about the impact that this will have on low and middle income workers and this cannot be left up to Revenue. I will press the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understood that Sinn Féin had sorted out this section in the Dáil. Can the Minister of State clarify that?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 5: In page 33, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 27.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to one month’s rent of an individual available to all renters not already in receipt of any...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is why within our alternative budget we cited an emergency freeze on rents for three years to address the question of the transfer to landlords.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 6: In page 33, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on introduction of a progressive wealth tax 27.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available for the introduction of a comprehensive and progressive wealth tax. The report shall include...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I point out that we are talking about 0.25% of the wealthiest people in the State and we are talking about a 1% tax on amounts over €1 million. That would bring in €89 million. I really think this needs to be reviewed.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 15: In page 109, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "Report on VAT on food supplements 56. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the treatment of food supplements in terms of VAT and whether they can be zero rated.". We are proposing that within three months of the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 16: 16. In page 111, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Report on restricting banks from carrying forward losses 61. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on restricting the banks from carrying forward losses against taxable profits in a manner which could...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: There were certainly intended consequences when the banks were up to their necks in reckless trading. I think it is obscene that we are rewarding these banks now. We have had one debacle after the other. We have had the tracker mortgages and everything else. It is obscene that they can avail of tax write-offs and we will not even agree to an absolute ten-year limit on the use of losses....

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 17: In page 130, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Report on introduction of measures to combat hoarding of land 74. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the introduction of measures to combat the hoarding of land needed for development, examining the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I can see that the Minister of State and I are not going to agree on this occasion. I will press the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 18: In page 131, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Report on Equality Budgeting Statement 76. Within 6 months of the enactment of this Act, the Minister shall lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report in relation to Gender and Equality Budgeting; to include a review of the implementation of the steps identified in the 2017 Staff...