Results 21-40 of 1,669 for apple

Did you mean: apply?

Seanad: Human Rights in China: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: ...of the Government here. Last April, I had the privilege of welcoming Sebastien Lai to these Houses. I had the opportunity to briefly introduce him to the Tánaiste. Sebastien is the son of Jimmy Lai, the founder of newspaper Apple Dailyin Hong Kong. His is a story of somebody who went from rags to riches. He was a self-made businessman who cared passionately about people and cared...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...a higher rate. Canada is predominantly social insurance but there is a bit of means testing, while Norway is almost entirely social insurance. To a certain extent, therefore, we are comparing apples and oranges but our closest analogue is the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Dr. Ciaran Byrne: I thank Deputy Donnelly for his questions. The fundamental question was about the timelines for the two schemes. To be upfront, it is not really comparing apples with apples. In the region of 1,340 contractors are operating in the individual measures scheme, in which there is a menu of individual measures you can get done. Homeowners apply when they are ready. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (17 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: Payment at National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) centres can be made by credit or debit card, Google Pay/Apple Pay or Payzone vouchers. Payzone vouchers can be purchased from over 3,500 retail outlets in towns and villages nationwide. The NDLS also allows an accompanying person to make card payments for customers who do not have cards themselves. In relation to driving licence or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (17 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: Payment at National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) centres may be made by credit or debit card, Google Pay/Apple Pay or Payzone vouchers. Payzone vouchers can be purchased with cash from over 3,500 retail outlets in towns and villages nationwide.

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Michael Collins: ...goes to meet an ambassador, it is a bad thing to do, even though the same ambassador is representing a country that provides tens of thousands of jobs in this country. I know myself from the case of Apple and several others in Cork that this ambassador helps to create tens of thousands of jobs through tourism when people from their country come to visit our country. Then a TD decides, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Sean Coughlan: We are talking about apples and oranges here. We are not talking about eliminating TB. However, Dr. Margaret Good, who I am sure has been in front of this committee over the years - she has retired - is very clear that there is absolutely no basis for what is being said.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

...demolished, leading to significant improvement in living circumstances and a few additional units. Both replacement sites were driven by the old sites impacting the development of significant commercial interests, namely, Apple and the Mahon Point Shopping Centre. Incidentally, impacting commercial interests seems to be more of a real impetus in delivering Traveller accommodation than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...an industry around renewables, is from companies looking to decarbonise their systems. That is why we saw the development of some wind projects directly linked to an individual company. When Apple wanted to build a data centre in the west, it also wanted to build a very large wind project because it wanted it to be sustainable. Other companies are doing the same thing. One ask we have...

Public Accounts Committee: ...Public Services 2022 Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022 Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

...Public Services 2022 Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022 Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...decent standard of living and to make poverty in this country history. The Government has the money to do all of this. It is awash with cash. There is a €65 billion surplus. It is fighting, using public money, to say that Apple should keep at almost €14 billion in taxes that should be owed to us. Yet, it refuses to spend this money on improving people's lives and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...of job losses in the tech sector are over? We do not know that for sure. We are, of course, following the matter closely but there is also strong growth in the tech sector. For example, Apple, the largest company in the world, is continuing to recruit and take on more people.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...to the extent that a question mark may be held overconfidence in the economy from the perspective of foreign direct investment, for example. I also wish to inquire about the degree to which Apple is being deemed or implied to have had a special sweetheart deal with the Government. I have asked many questions about this context over the years, as did the Minister when he was in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 104, 177, 181 and 183 together. I understand that the Deputy is referring to the recent Opinion of the Advocate General in the Apple Case. In 2016, the European Commission issued a Decision finding that Ireland had provided State aid to Apple. Ireland challenged this decision before the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) and in2020, the GCEU issued...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...the Deputy is referring to the OECD's two-pillared solution to address the tax challenges associated with the digitalisation of the economy and the recent Opinion of the Advocate General in the Apple Case. Ireland signed up to the OECD two-pillar agreement in October 2021 and we intend to follow through on that commitment. Our long-standing position is that the international tax system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...year before last and is currently sitting with about €6 billion in assets largely invested in short-term investments ready to form some of the initial contributions to new planned funds. Lastly, we have the Ireland Apple escrow fund, established in 2018. The NTMA is responsible for the oversight and management of the fund, in accordance with the escrow framework deed and through...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...by another €57 million. At the finance committee, we managed to prise out information to the effect that the vast majority of the tax breaks are going to about 100 of the richest corporations in the world, including Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. They are getting money to research new iPhones in order to make fortunes above and beyond the already obscene profits they are making and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...those projects for which the business case has massively improved. The project means that people who live in rural Ireland can get the benefit of foreign direct investment. They can live in Ballyhaunis and work for Apple. The provision of fibre to every home, farm and business under the national broadband plan is a clear and understandable social guarantee. It tells people they will be...