Results 581-600 of 1,053,568 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Shane Cassells OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Kathleen Funchion OR speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill OR speaker:Seán Haughey)
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Damien English: We did not introduce it. The Deputy should check the record on that.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me. It was Fianna Fáil. The Deputy is absolutely right.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are all the one now.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What Fine Gael did was say that it would get rid of the USC and then reneged-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Damien English: We will do it eventually.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on the commitment to do so. People Before Profit has been very consistent in its view on the USC since entering this Dáil in 2011, which is that it was a grossly unfair austerity imposition on working people to pay for the crimes of the bankers and property developers who put this country over a cliff in 2008. Workers got it in the neck and were asked to pay for the crimes of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I do not want to labour the point, but while I welcome the fact that the Minister acknowledges median income in 2023 was €43,000, he should acknowledge that the CSO does that for comparable data purposes. I can read to him the email the CSO provided to me. That is only for workers who are employed for 50 weeks or more in the year. It excludes all workers who left their job during...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Jack Chambers: What about USC?
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister is right that they benefit from the USC. He gave them €59. Let us just settle on that.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
NEW SECTION
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 2: Report on abolition and replacement of universal social charge 3. (1) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the universal social charge for all those who earn less than €70,000 per year. (2) The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, produce a report on abolishing the...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I agree. The public who are watching, if they are watching, see these funny arguments between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, but the real thing is that the Government promised that it would abolish the universal social charge. Abolish means finito, gone, not tinkering around with the bands and raising them a bit and everything else. The Minister's party made the promise in its...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We welcome that the Minister came to Killarney last weekend and took a few pictures. He was very select about where he went. I was disappointed that he did not go to meet the business people of the town-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Jack Chambers: We went to the chamber of commerce.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----who are very disgruntled and out of sorts because of the Government's failure to reduce the VAT rate from 13.5% to 9%. It had all kinds of money to do just that and it would rather spend it here on bicycle sheds and huts and what have you and the children's hospital where it has no control in the world over where the money is going. There is no account whatsoever of when it will be...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Does anyone else want to speak on this before we go to the Minister? No.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Jack Chambers: Deputy McGrath asked about the previous manifesto. To be clear, we said the USC would be reduced from 4.5% to 3.5%. We reduced it from 4.5% to 3%, so we actually went further than we set out in the manifesto in 2020.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil said it would abolish it