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- 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)
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- 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
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: No, that was Fine Gael
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: They are all the same.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: I know they are.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Jack Chambers: That is to be factual in reply to Deputy McGrath's question. On Deputy Doherty's question, I have set out my perspective on the three changes we have made around personal tax credits, USC and the standard rate. Even if we were to use the median, the CSO figures published today show it is €43,000 for 2023. It is likely to be higher in 2024 and higher again in 2025, so many of the...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What happened to Fianna Fáil's promise before the last election that it was going to abolish the USC? Its members will go out canvassing on the doors again and make more promises. What credibility do they think they can have with people? Fianna Fáil and other parties promised they would abolish it. I remember when it was, to quote the late Albert Reynolds, "a temporary little...