Results 2,341-2,360 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Why is the Government not taxing the wealthy?
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Demand is depressing because the Government has put too many people out of work and is taking billions of euro out of the economy.
- Workers' Remuneration: Motion (21 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: What about the super rich? What about a wealth tax? Richie Ryan did it years ago, and he was a Fine Gael Minister.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (16 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of public interest requiring urgent attention, namely the need for the Government and the Industrial Development Agency to source urgently a replacement industry for Cashel, County Tipperary, following the announcement yesterday of the closure of the Johnson & Johnson plant in the town with the loss of 133...
- Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Is it the Technical Group?
- Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Is that from Deputy Stagg?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: The Minister referred earlier to the maintenance of jobs and she obviously believes that this section is vitally important in that context. She is correct in one sense. If one walks down the high street in any town throughout the country, one will see that a significant number of long-standing businesses are either reducing their operations or are closing down. The difficulty of matter does...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Ross for moving the amendments in my name. I am not convinced that we should be going down the road of imposing a levy on pensions. However, if it is to be done, the objective of these amendments is to ensure the charge is borne by the managers of pension funds rather than the beneficiaries. There is adequate information available to suggest that significant profits are...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 37: In page 11, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(c) charges or impositions on any scheme or financial instrument or private pension plan proposed in this Bill may not be passed down to contributors to such schemes, private pension plan or instruments.",".
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Yes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I want to make a few brief points in the two minutes I have left. This Bill does not provide for the additional staffing that is needed so that a proper social welfare service can be made available to the public. I am sure the Minister is aware that it is taking an average of 20 weeks to process social welfare applications. It takes 20 weeks for an application for carer's allowance to be...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have an opportunity to say a few words on this Bill. I want to record my opposition to its guillotining today at 7 p.m. We have been told this is because of the diktat from the EU and the IMF but it is much more in line with the current Government's takeover, hook, line and sinker, of the policies and methods of operation of the previous Government. I remind the...
- Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recovery in net financial asset values by â¬27.3 billion in 2009 (details supplied), if he will propose that the net financial assets of households with net financial assets above â¬2.3 million having incomes above â¬100,000 per annum be taxed in budget 2012 to avoid further impositions on low and middle income households and...
- Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: The net financial assets of wealthy people increased by 27.3% between 2008 and 2009 and are likely to increase again in 2010 and 2011. These are personal rather than business, commercial, building or housing assets and are net. I believe people with such assets who are on significant incomes should pay their fair share of taxation. They are not doing so now. I believe it is time super...
- Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: The Minister referred to those domiciled elsewhere. Surely it is time Irish taxation should be on the basis of citizenship, as it is in the United States, which is where United States citizens in Ireland are paying tax. The Minister's former colleague and former Minister, Mr. Richie Ryan, introduced an asset tax in this country. Does the Minister not believe very wealthy people should show...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, I understood it was I, not Deputy Healy-Rae, who was tabled to request an adjournment under Standing Order 32. I submitted my request last night.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: It concerns the closure of 400 post offices by An Post.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I have a copy of the notification.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the policy of An Post to close 400 post offices, including the announcement yesterday of the impending closure of Bansha post office, County Tipperary, thus withdrawing a vital public service from the local community, especially the elderly who are dependent on the post office for...
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Séamus Healy: When does the Government expect to bring before the House amendments to the Freedom of Information Act to ensure that the secret operations of NAMA will be made more transparent?