Results 101-120 of 145 for 5 million speaker:Pearse Doherty

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...seven years ago. There is an injustice at its heart as has been pointed out. People dig deep into their pockets to provide for charities but, probably unbeknownst to them, out of every €5 they give approximately €1 goes to the State's coffers, and this is not the intention. This is not why people collect and raise money for charities. It is not the spirit of how it should...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...data in three years time. I want to re-emphasise the point, however, that these are very large companies with huge profits. Some 140 of them have individually paid corporation tax in excess of €5 million in the last year. More than 400 of them pay corporation tax of at least €1 million per annum. There may be new companies that will come in to avail of this knowledge...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...to address the question of landlords with multiple units, such as apartment blocks with five apartments or old houses that have been split up into five units. The cost of refurbishment may be €5 million, yet under this measure only two of the apartments may be let to recipients of social housing. Can the Minister outline how the overall loan will be subdivided? How will we know...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that paid corporation tax in the bands €0 to €50,000, €50,000 plus to €100,000, €100,00 plus to €500,000, €500,000 plus to €1 million, €1 million plus to €5 million, and €5 million plus, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41606/15]

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...the only alternative to regressive budgets. In the interest of a fairer society we proposed to remove regressive taxes such as the water charge and property tax, to take workers earning under €19,572 out of the USC net and to provide relief to the self-employed. We also sought to ask those who earn upwards of €100,000 individually to pay a little bit more. However, that...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...claim that Professor Honohan said to him on a Wednesday that he would need to deploy the Army on the Friday and introduce capital controls. I sit on the banking inquiry. The State has spent close to €5 million getting to the guts of what happened in the crash and also examining the policy responses and the aftermath of what happened when trying to restore the credibility of our...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...of the past. The cut to the USC and changes to PRSI will put more than three times more in the pocket of someone earning €70,000 a year compared to the average worker. For those earning €25,000, the Minister is giving them €227 annually, yet he has put over €900 back into the pockets of individuals earning over €70,000. How is that fair? By reducing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that was generated when the standard fund threshold was reduced from €5 million to €2.3 million in 2010. [29499/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Apr 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...Atlas in page 19 the different types of exposures you have, so this individual is definitely in the top five. In September '07, the board had approved that underwrite ... written ... €789 million. A number of weeks later, on the 5 December '07, a request came for €202 million additional to this individual. Now, the document ... if we look at page 36 of the document ... the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. In relation to the security that underpinned some of these loans, and you mentioned in Vol. 2, page 5, table 3 and again Vol. 1, page 4, table 2, where NAMA wrote down €477 million as a result of not being able to ... inadequate security, and then claimed back €334 million from the banks for the same purposes, which totals €811 million of unenforceable securities....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I hope he is making a full recovery after his recent trip to the hospital. I will not go over the ground covered by Deputy Michael McGrath. Page 5 refers to office equipment and external IT costs, for which over €1 million has been budgeted. Some of those costs are offset by public expenditure and reform savings. Does the Department have any...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: One of the changes to section 17 is the annual rate of imputed distribution applying to AMRFs and vested PRSAs. What is the motivation for that reduction from 5% to 4% for AMRFs with a value of less than €2 million? It was 3% prior to the Finance Bill 2011 and increased to 5%. We know that people can hold on to these funds and not draw down for retirement benefit. The idea of this...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister of State figures for the number drawing down the 5% of those funds valued at less than €2 million? How many of the funds are not drawing down the 5%?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...that it was critical we attracted people to help create more jobs, that the projected cost of the relief for up to 100 individuals, which never materialised, over a period of time was between €3 million and €5 million and that it was very modestly targeted. I stated it was open-ended and contained no requirement to produce one job in the State, which it does not. Deputy...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I will come to that figure. Let us be clear: it is indisputable that there is headroom of €570 million for us in order to be below the 3% deficit target. Therefore, if Irish Water were to be included in the State's books, that figure could be absorbed. As the Minister rightly said, there would then be the issue of the €300 million to be raised in domestic charges. How would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: National Asset Management Agency (22 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...and had them independently assessed, which I will come to in a minute. I was taken aback by the suggestion that at the end of this process, the profit NAMA will make will be in the region of €500 million. Can the witnesses talk me through some of the assumptions underlying that? NAMA has relied heavily on the fact that property prices have decreased since the valuation date on...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The health system needs more than the €500 million that was taken from the health budget. To meet demographic demands in health, the system needs an additional €300 million to deal with a growing and aging population. This has not been provided. The Government has decided to stand still, keep the budget the way it is and not deal with demographic demands. This is...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...sinks in, there is no doubt that hundreds of thousands of people across the State will be bitterly disappointed. For hard-pressed families struggling to pay property tax and water charges, 2015 will not be the end of austerity. Today’s budget does little or nothing for these families. Some of them will be actually worse off as a result of it. We must never forget why all of...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...money into an entity such as that being established. I do not understand why the Government waited until the end of this parliamentary session to introduce this legislation. Our views mean nothing because the Bill will go through. The Government has made it very clear that it will be passed tonight; the use of the guillotine is to be imposed. The Taoiseach tells us it is the first time...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...the responsibility of the Revenue Commissioners the Government proposed to increase the number of staff. However, the figures before us today show that the increase never materialised. In 2012, there were 5,715 staff. The estimate for 2013 was 5,874 because of the local property tax. There was an increase of just below 160 proposed but the provisional outturn was 5,756. Therefore,...