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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: The measures provided for in Finance Act 2012 regarding “legacy” property-based tax schemes, which inter alia, are subject to the high earners’ restriction, are in line with the advice received from the Attorney General’s Office. We do not publish legal advice from the Attorney General. There are of course certain other specified reliefs that are covered by the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: I welcome the opportunity to reply to Deputy McGrath. The Deputy should speak with a certain amount of modesty because all of the renegotiation being conducted by the Government on the bailout programme amounts to a series of attempts to unwind the deal made by the Fianna Fáil-led Government which got us into difficulty in the first instance. It made all the arrangements for the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: -----of wishing the Government to fail in order that the Fianna Fáil Party can have a political opportunity to rebuild.
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: That is a trap he should avoid as it will not get him anywhere. I have noted yesterday's statement by three finance Ministers from Germany, the Netherlands and Finland. The statement addresses issues already decided upon by eurozone leaders when they met in Brussels on 29 June. As the Taoiseach set out this morning, the Heads of State and Government made two important decisions on 29...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy may be tired of what he describes as political swipes, but when he and his leader get up on a rhetorical and moral high horse and lecture us on the way we are renegotiating, it is valid to point out that what we are renegotiating is the bad deal entered into by the Fianna Fáil-led Government.
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: That is what we are doing so a little modesty would not go astray. I presume the Deputy saw the statement issued by the European Commission this morning. I will quote Mr. Olivier Bailly, a Commission spokesman, who stated at a media briefing that eurozone Governments should move "quickly" to break the link between bank troubles and sovereign debt. The agreement reached in June by eurozone...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Nothing is irrelevant; everybody is advancing negotiating positions. However, there are 27 countries in the European Community and a spokesman for the Commission, which speaks for the Community, stated this morning that the policy remains the same as that outlined at the Heads of State and Government meeting of 29 June. He also noted that member states should move quickly to implement this...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Most children in this country are happy. Most children in this country are well looked after. I often stand back in admiration at the way young mothers and fathers look after their children, how they educate them, take them to school, take them to football, hurling, swimming, music and dancing and all the other things children do. One hears jocose complaints from mothers that sometimes...
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Was it the Deputy's cousin or his brother who told him to raise this issue?
- Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Was it the Deputy's cousin or his brother who told him to raise this issue?
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Most children in this country are happy. Most children in this country are well looked after. I often stand back in admiration at the way young mothers and fathers look after their children, how they educate them, take them to school, take them to football, hurling, swimming, music and dancing and all the other things children do. One hears jocose complaints from mothers that sometimes...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: I welcome the opportunity to reply to Deputy McGrath. The Deputy should speak with a certain amount of modesty because all of the renegotiation being conducted by the Government on the bailout programme amounts to a series of attempts to unwind the deal made by the Fianna Fáil-led Government which got us into difficulty in the first instance. It made all the arrangements for the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: -----of wishing the Government to fail in order that the Fianna Fáil Party can have a political opportunity to rebuild.
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: That is a trap he should avoid as it will not get him anywhere. I have noted yesterday's statement by three finance Ministers from Germany, the Netherlands and Finland. The statement addresses issues already decided upon by eurozone leaders when they met in Brussels on 29 June. As the Taoiseach set out this morning, the Heads of State and Government made two important decisions on 29...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy may be tired of what he describes as political swipes, but when he and his leader get up on a rhetorical and moral high horse and lecture us on the way we are renegotiating, it is valid to point out that what we are renegotiating is the bad deal entered into by the Fianna Fáil-led Government.
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: That is what we are doing so a little modesty would not go astray. I presume the Deputy saw the statement issued by the European Commission this morning. I will quote Mr. Olivier Bailly, a Commission spokesman, who stated at a media briefing that eurozone Governments should move "quickly" to break the link between bank troubles and sovereign debt. The agreement reached in June by eurozone...
- Topical Issue Debate: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: Nothing is irrelevant; everybody is advancing negotiating positions. However, there are 27 countries in the European Community and a spokesman for the Commission, which speaks for the Community, stated this morning that the policy remains the same as that outlined at the Heads of State and Government meeting of 29 June. He also noted that member states should move quickly to implement this...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: It is assumed that the threshold for the proposed new tax rate mentioned by the Deputy would not alter the existing standard rate band structure applying to single and widowed persons, to lone parents and married couples. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that the estimated full year yield to the Exchequer, estimated by reference to 2013 incomes, of the introduction of a new 48% rate...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Responsibilities (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: In response to the Deputy’s Question no statutory powers have been delegated to Deputy Brian Hayes in his role as Minister of State in the Department of Finance.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (26 Sep 2012)
Michael Noonan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Irish banks were required to raise €24.0bn in capital following the 2011 Prudential Capital Assessment Review (PCAR) in order to remain above a minimum capital target of 10.5% Core Tier 1 in the base scenario and 6% Core Tier 1 in the stress Scenario. The Central Bank made its decision on required recapitalisation based on loan-loss projections along...