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- 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-----
- 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.