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- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I did no such thing. I pointed out that the Government-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: People can look at the record------
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let Deputy Murphy speak, please.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: -----and see that what is consistent is that while pretending to talk about common sense and all that good stuff, in reality, they represent the interests of the rich in this country. That is the truth of it. It is quite ironic today to have speeches telling us it is not possible to increase corporation tax or to have a tax on wealth. The reason it is ironic today is that I got a push...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: I will focus on a group of people who work day after day and at the end of the week and month still find it hard, despite that modest, reasonably decent pay cheque, and struggle to make ends meet. They are not looking for benefits. Often, they are not eligible for them. They are keen to hold on to a reasonable portion, and more, of their hard-earned pay. Economists might know them as the...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the chance to talk about this amendment and the USC. First, I remember this USC was introduced when the country was in a desperate state. I was brought up by my father who taught me many things, thankfully. As many Members might know, I spent my days and nights with him from the day I started working until the day he departed in 2014. We milked the cows together, drove the...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: This is-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: There are serious amendments to debate.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am being heckled here from behind. However, there is plenty of money for those who curtail their farm work of food production. These are the ridiculous things that are going on. Yet, at the same time, the parties are all the one now. It was a different situation in the past. They have sold their souls and buried them in the ground when they joined Fine Gael first of all, and when...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are supposed to be talking about the Finance Bill, Deputy.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: What I am getting at is that they promised that as soon as the country got on its feet, they would abolish the USC charge. I am asking them to stand to their word and honour what was said by the remnants of what was there at that time. They should honour the word they gave that this USC would be scrapped altogether. It is very unfair and unjust. No matter how much or little - especially...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I will come back to the whole question of a wealth tax. It is an interesting question but it is a little more complex than Deputy Boyd Barrett thinks. The same applies to corporation tax. One thing I hate in any tax proposal is the situation where if a person moves above a certain figure, he or she goes back to square one and pays from there. As a modest proposal, how much would it...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Ó Cuív and then Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you not going to call the movers of the motion first?
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We can, if Deputies want to do it that way-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I meant to say amendments - the sponsors of the amendments in the grouping.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes, we will do it that way. Okay. Deputies Doherty and Conway-Walsh are next then.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am fine.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our amendment proposes that the Government should get rid of the universal social charge, USC, for anybody who is earning less than €100,000 and replace it with a wealth tax on the very richest in our society. Others have made promises, most notably the Fine Gael-led Government when it introduced the USC, which was a grossly unfair act by a government-----