Results 121-140 of 145 for 5 million speaker:Pearse Doherty

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: That was approximately 15 minutes ago and the remarks in question related to the additional €5 million.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...care grant? I remind the Tánaiste that it was one of the nastiest, most vicious cuts implemented on the 82,000 carers of loved ones the length and breadth of the State. Why not restore the €325 grant and put it back into their pockets? Has the Tánaiste still not learned the lesson that the Government should not cut the grants to people caring for their loved ones at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Data (9 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies making a corporation tax return in excess of €1 million, €5 million, €10 million and so on by €5 million, for each of the years from 2006 to present. [42656/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ..., that the abode and centre of interests not be recognised on the basis of a number of days. Some of these individuals may buy tax residency because their accountants will advise them that €1 million per year for the next ten years will buy tax residency, with the clause that €5 million must be invested which may or may not provide a return. It is a cost of €1...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...impression that Ireland was the most giving nation in the world but the witnesses have outlined some very hard facts in regard to comparisons between ourselves and our closet neighbours. Some 15% of Irish donors give in a planned fashion compared to 36% of donors next door while the Irish figure in terms of percentage of disposable income is 0.8%, compared to 1.2%. The witnesses'...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...shift, but the fact is that this is a tax to pay the debt of the banks. When one looks closely at the figures, one sees how grave the situation is. The local property tax is being earmarked to take in €500 million a year, if every household in the State pays it. If every single household in the State pays it, it will take five and a half years to repay the so-called investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (15 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation breached the terms of its Commitments Letter to the European Commission by issuing a further €5 million loan to a person (details supplied) in 2012 to pay legal costs, when their debt with IBRC amounted to approximately €900 million in personal and corporate accounts at the time....

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...house did not drop out of the sky tonight. The Minister's proposal does not make sense. While he may argue that it taxes the value of a house, the property tax will apply to people who have a €250,000 mortgage on a house valued at €100,000. As Deputy Brian Stanley noted, a person with a mortgage of €250,000 could find the house next door on the same estate being sold...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...What about a gambling levy? When I was young, I used to walk to the bookmaker's for my father to place a bet. If one bet €10, one had to pay a levy of 10%. Why not introduce a gambling levy of 5%? The Department has stated this would yield €265 million. Why ask people who simply cannot pay any more to pay more because they have a roof over their heads? It just does not...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF, the European Investment Bank, EIB, and the private pension industry and by not cutting the capital budget. Instead, the Government has reduced the capital budget by €500 million. The Taoiseach would be as well taking the Tánaiste, packing the bags of 5,000 young Irish people and bidding them farewell for Canada and Australia. These young people...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (6 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5:In page 7, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(a) prioritise the generation of economic growth, job creation and delivery of high quality public services, ". Ba mhaith liom mo mí-shásamh a chur in iúil nach bhfuil leasaithe a 1 to dtí a 4, go huile, ábalta a bheith glactha. Téann an Bill go dtí croílár na...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (6 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the imputed distribution percentage on approved retirement funds and PRSAs was increased from 6% to 8% where the asset values are in excess of €2 million and from 5% to 7% where the asset values are between €1 million and €2 million. [47348/12]

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ..., they may only do so in accordance with strict criteria and the measure is designed for those employed in the public sector who have a pension pot which will have a final value in excess of €2.3 million. The purpose of this is to avoid the excessive surcharge. I am interested in learning, perhaps on Committee Stage, who lobbied the Minister on this matter and the reason for their...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...of them. After all the bluster we got from Fine Gael and the Labour Party in Opposition, this is what they have mustered up. Even a Minister of State earning in excess of €100,000 will pay only 5% on such money that is sheltered. It is appalling to allow individual high earners continue to avail of these schemes at this point in time when the Minister and every other Minister tells us...

Tax Code (1 Feb 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...go down well with the public. We can tax online gambling, which is not labour-intensive, and there is a need to consider the levies that could be placed on online gambling. Sinn Féin proposed 5% and it would bring in €100 million. The Minister should consider this.

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Sep 2011)

Pearse Doherty: ...and discuss Anglo Irish Bank bonds. Deputy Donnelly is absolutely correct in his point about burden sharing with bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank. Nobody really swallows figures such as the €100 million mentioned, but that is not what we are dealing with. The Minister knows that my party will be voting against the Bill. I do not want to drag this out for too long because it is a sham,...

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Pearse Doherty: ...a very small house worth, say, €80,000 to €100,000 or whatever will now be subject to stamp duty. However, the Minister of State referred to the fact that properties valued at more than €1 million will be subject to the 2% rate as distinct from the existing 9% rate. There are still trophy houses on the market in the region of €5 million. Based on what the Minister of State has...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: ...that we will be obliged to pay is punitive. Under what is proposed, our partners in Europe will profit from the misery of the Irish people. In July, Commissioner Olli Rehn announced a €200 million additional investment in Latvia. The money in question was paid out in September and the lower interest rate applied in respect of it. The Minister for Finance, who represents Ireland at...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: ...justify going after the payment in a way that hits poor and rich alike. Health spending is to be cut by €1.4 billion over the term of the four year plan. The Government wants to take out €746 million next year. The health system is already in crisis, with services being cut across the State. I have seen first-hand in Sligo and Letterkenny hospitals the destruction that successive...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: .... The Government is cutting the liveilhoods of people who are trying to get on in this State. What have they done? What have the public sector workers done to the Government that it will sack 9,500 of them - 4,150 from health, 1,023 gardaí who will lose their jobs by the end of next year, and 1,063 teachers and front-line staff working in the education system? A total of 9,500 public...