Results 7,561-7,580 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: I am not interested in Fianna Fáil. I am interested in what the Minister is doing.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: She is taking â¬811 million in a full year.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister should be honest.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: How many people will be affected? We initially got figures for the original change. However, now that it has been reduced, do we have a revised figure for the number of people?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: I asked for revised figures. Do I take it they are not available?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Deputy should read the rest into the record.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: On the home page of the Department of Social Protection's website one can see, in the top left-hand corner, the mission statement of the Department. The Department's mission is: "To promote active participation in society through the provision of income supports, employment services and other services." Does the Bill justify that mission statement? That is how we should be measuring the...
- European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: As opposed to a blue shirt.
- Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: You were not here earlier.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: I wish to share time with Deputies Stanley, Colreavy and Ellis. I will take ten minutes, while the Deputies will take ten minutes, five minutes and five minutes, respectively.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: Many who sat at home listening to the speeches by the Ministers, Deputies Howlin and Noonan, on Monday and yesterday, respectively, found themselves in utter despair at what the next few weeks, months and possibly years would be like for them. The comprehensive expenditure reports were published this morning and read like a litany of punishments to society's least well-off. Carers, the...
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: We are sitting until midnight.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: Like the previous speaker, I regard this as an attack on those who are sick and unable to work. The Minister said it is difficult to quantify how much it will yield and yet the Government is proceeding with it. It is a direct attack on those who, through no fault of their own, are out of work on illness benefit. It is a disgraceful decision and I ask the Minister to give a more...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Government should know how much it will save.
- Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: I also have mixed views on this resolution. I have been thrown by the inclusion of farmland because I cannot take it in isolation. We must be very careful not to create a situation where another property bubble will be allowed to develop. I cannot take it in isolation because, taken together with the seven year holiday being given to property developers with regard to capital gains tax, it...
- Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: And the capital gains tax, Minister?
- Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister indicated that he would raise capital gains tax by 5% but he did not provide a figure for what would potentially be raised.
- Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is probably a missed opportunity because if we had increased the rate by another 5% we would have brought in â¬165 million which would have off-set some of the cuts to child benefit proposed by the Government. The measure does not go far enough. I inquired previously about the holiday on capital gains tax of seven years for property buyers. Does the Minister agree that it is a dangerous...
- Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: I agree.
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Dec 2011)
Jonathan O'Brien: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to cut second level teaching posts in County Cork over the next 12 months; and if he will provide details of same. [38324/11]