Results 941-960 of 2,066 for speaker:Joe Flaherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: The authority has started its engagement with the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Very good. The authority has had some discussion with the Chair regarding what is euphemistically referred to as special education unit spaces and classes. It has had a big role in respect of universal design, with the creation of guidelines and so on, and much of that work was laudable. Do the witnesses get a sense we have not moved beyond the guidelines and that, as a Government and as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I was pleased to hear the witnesses touch on employment and they referred to the Employers for Change service, funded by the Government. I do not like suggesting we should follow a US model but I have spoken to an agency in New York that works with the disability sector there. It has brought in a quota for employers tendering for government contracts whereby 20% of their workforce have to...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the number of persons in County Longford who are eligible to claim the rent tax credit; the number of persons in County Longford currently claiming it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11350/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (7 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review current rates of VRT given that some disability support and special needs organisations are being negatively impacted by current rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11349/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I thank the speakers for attending and welcome their return. Much of the detail on what I wanted to go through has been given to Deputy Fitzmaurice, so I will not go over much of the old ground. I will address only a few of the issues. Over half of the 100,000 ha to be planted by 2050 is to be native woodland. With regard to the requirement for 30% of woodland to be native under the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Is the €10 million from corporate sources still available? Has any of it fallen away after the reaction controversy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Has any funding been got in addition to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Given the forestry premiums, one would imagine the sector would be very attractive to pension funds and investment houses. We are largely farmers here but take the point that the corporate world is standing back and has serious reservations. I would have expected Coillte to have more than the €10 million at this stage, the beginning of March.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Twenty-five million is our money, though, so there is €10 million from the corporate side. My point is that there clearly is concern about this project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Notwithstanding the interest, Coillte needs to get to €200 million. Is Ms Hurley worried about getting to that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: That is all laudable. I am conscious of time. I will home in on one final point and allow the representatives to finish on that. I will give an agricultural or, at least, a horse analogy of someone selling shares in a racehorse who wants to get €200 million and has a five-year timeline to do so. If we factor in what Coillte has from the State, which is €25 million, it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: That is in addition to the €25 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: When did Coillte ask for the €10 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: Was that at the end of December?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: As the public reaction unfolded, Coillte looked to the Department for €10 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: How much is the committed capital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: That is the only figure we are talking about so far.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: I appreciate Mr. Carlin's frank response but if it were me on Coillte's side, I would be worried at this stage. I wish the representatives well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
Joe Flaherty: To finish, is Coillte worried it will not get to the €200 million?