Results 881-900 of 33,118 for speaker:Paschal Donohoe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Since being appointed to my current role as Minister for Finance I have not had any engagement with either ISIF or with Hackman Capital Partners related to the Greystones Media Campus. My Department's engagement with ISIF has been to seek information in response to queries on the project. ISIF’s involvement as an investor in the project is a commercial matter under its investment...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 93 together. The NTMA have informed me that as at 31 December 2023 the ISIF’s direct investments in companies on the UN database totalled approximately €4.2 million in 11 companies. It also outlined that the ISIF’s indirect investments include 8 companies totalling approximately €9.4 million. Information regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy may be aware, the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018 are under the remit of the Minister for Justice. The legislation protects against discrimination on nine specific grounds, including age. However, the legislation also provides that people can be treated differently on any of the grounds (except gender) in relation to the provision of annuities, pensions, insurance policies or any...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I am advised by Revenue that nicotine pouches are not subject to Tobacco Products Tax or any other specific form of taxation. As such, details of their sale in the State are not returned to Revenue. I am also informed by Revenue that traders are not required to separately identify the yield generated from the sale or supply of specific products or services in their periodic VAT returns....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Court Judgments (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: Revenue are committed to targeting the illicit tobacco trade and implement a range of measures to identify and target the smuggling, supply or sale of illicit tobacco products with a view to disrupting the supply chain, seizing the illicit product and, where possible, prosecuting those involved. Revenue keeps its operational requirements and arrangements regarding the deployment and use of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: There has not yet been an opportunity to hold a MinMAC meeting since I took office at the end of January, however I will hold such a meeting during the next quarter.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The UN maintains a database of business enterprises involved in certain specified activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). At the end of 2023, ISIF’s direct investments in companies on the UN database totalled approximately €4.2 million in 11 companies. ISIF’s indirect investments included 8 companies totalling approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to supporting the delivery of new homes of all tenure types, aiming to deliver 303,000 homes from 2025-2030. This year, over €6 billion will be invested in housing, through the Exchequer, the Land Development Agency and via Housing Finance Agency lending. A report by the Department of Finance published in 2024 estimated that an average of €20...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy will be aware, wealth is already taxed in a number of ways in Ireland. These include Capital Gains Tax (CGT), and Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT). Certain forms of Stamp Duty also act as taxes on wealth in a number of ways, including that charged on the acquisition of the shares, stocks and marketable securities of Irish registered companies, and on the acquisition of property...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: You cannot on one hand stand up and make the case for the value of the rules of this House and at the same time attempt to shout them down.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: You cannot do that. You cannot on one hand talk about the value of the procedures of this House but be involved in heckling those who seek to implement them. You cannot talk about respect for the office of the Ceann Comhairle but at the same time look to abuse her and the way she has performed her functions. Finally, you cannot make the case for the importance of the orderly functioning of...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: You cannot ride both horses together.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: I noted what Deputy McDonald said earlier on, and again this is the behaviour. The same people who are only too happy to heckle and disrupt this House are the same people who stand up and make charges against this Government. Earlier on, Deputy McDonald said the Government, or indeed the Ceann Comhairle, was involved in behaviour to tear democracy apart. Really?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: When you see the behaviour taking place elsewhere in the world that has that affect-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----how can you talk about the behaviour in the House in a way that is consistent with that? Deputy McDonald alleged the Ceann Comhairle demolished the rules of this House. Really?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: How can you substantiate that? Perhaps, most chillingly-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----Deputy McDonald went on to say that the Ceann Comhairle's position is untenable-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----and the outcome of the vote does not change that. I do not happen to agree with Deputy Murphy too often but in his brief appearance earlier he put the question that there is more to democracy than majority rule and he is, of course, correct. A vital element of all of that is respect for rules, adherence to rules and adherence to them even when you might not agree.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: That is the bedrock upon which constitutional democracy in our State should function and while there are issues we will debate over time, to stand over here, to contest there is behaviour under way where the Ceann Comhairle has not been impartial-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: -----does a disservice to the traditions that have served this State well.