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Seanad
‹ Order of Business (Resumed)

VAT on insolvency practitioners

Summary

Senator Harte asks the Finance Minister to address VAT charged on personal-insolvency practitioners’ fees, then makes an unrelated tribute to Alex Ferguson that the Chair rules irrelevant.

I ask the Leader to ask the Minister for Finance to come to the House to discuss the personal insolvency legislation, especially personal insolvency practitioners who are obliged to pay VAT on fees. That is not acceptable. People should not have to pay VAT on the situation in which they find themselves.

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

Senator, you are way over time.

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I want to pay tribute to Alex Ferguson.

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

That is not relevant to the Order of Business.

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We could bring him into the House to sort out a few------

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