Results 17,201-17,220 of 27,019 for speaker:Michael Noonan
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: I understand it is proposed to deal with this issue in three separate Bills and that part 1 of these will come to the House before the summer and parts 2 and 3 will be introduced later this year.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: I am sure the Pope will be very pleased that Deputy Ross has congratulated him. I notice there is an Old Testament type of rhetoric in the interventions of Deputy Ross here sometimes, with phrases such as "opening the floodgates".
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: On the legislation to remediate the lacuna arising from Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne's judgment, the heads of the Bill were passed by the Government last Tuesday. The responsibility for this is vested in the Minister for Justice and Equality and he intends to legislate before the summer if possible. There will be a full debate in the House on the Bill.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The heads of the Bill were cleared last July and the Bill will come before the House later this year.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: There is no particular legislation promised, but if the Deputy is referring to the difficulties that have arisen from the ruling of the Ombudsman under equality legislation regarding persons with disabilities, the Minister for Health and his officials are actively engaged with representatives of the disability groups to ensure that a solution of equal value is brought forward.
- Food Safety Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: No.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: As the Deputy has noted, the decision in respect of the embassy to the Vatican and a number of others was made on cost grounds. We have to measure everything. However, the Irish ambassador to the Vatican was not withdrawn. That phraseology suggests we no longer have an ambassador to the Vatican. The Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the Irish ambassador...
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The House will be aware that agreement has been reached with some of the main public service unions. The negotiations were led by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin. As we move towards the point where the agreement will be put to a ballot among the membership of the unions, they should be given the space to consider it without advice from this House,...
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: I am not threatening anybody. I simply want to get the job done. Everybody knows the cost base of the public service is too high. Everybody also knows that the cost base of the banks is too high. If we leave the rhetoric aside and get on with the job, we could sort this place out.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: Further to the Government's decision that the harvesting rights to Coillte's forests be considered for sale, at the Government's request the National Treasury Management Agency, through its NewERA unit, has been actively engaged with Coillte, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in recent months to examine the financial and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: This issue arises in the context of a requirement under the programme. As the Deputy is aware, the troika has been involved in this. The context is that some State assets are to be sold. For example, the National Lottery will be issued with a new licence and the non-network part of Bord Gáis Éireann and some of the ESB power generation assets are under consideration. It is also...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: Several questions have been answered in the House on the matter.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013 - back from committee; No. 21, Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); No. 1, Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage;...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil don Teachta as ucht seo a lua arís. Maidir leis na freagraí a thugamar inné, níl an plean lochtach ar chor ar bith. Beidh réiteach ar fáil don a lán clann timpeall na tíre nuair a bhéas an plean curtha i bhfeidhm. There is no flaw in what was put out yesterday....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: On the issue of the independent agency, first, there will be a director of the personal insolvency agency who will implement the provisions of the insolvency Act with the personal insolvency practitioners. He is independent under the law passed by this House. The driver of this will be the Central Bank which is independent under statute and the Constitution. It has co-operated with us in...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The main thrust of Deputy Pearse Doherty's first intervention was that there should be an independent agency to look after these matters and that this was part of Sinn Féin's policy proposed earlier in the year. Now he is accusing me of having a hands-off approach. If there is to be an independent agency, then it must be independent. The independent agency in this case is the Central...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy cannot have it both ways on this.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy advocated the establishment of an independent agency. When I told him that was what would happen, he said we were hands-off in the Department of Finance and that was no good.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: The Deputy cannot have it both ways. There has to be some logic to his policy positions.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Michael Noonan: He is correct in linking the issue of impaired mortgages to unemployment. Many people have linked it to negative equity and all sorts of other things. If one looks at it properly, the people with impaired mortgages are by and large unemployed. It is because of unemployment that we have this crisis. If we do not introduce the measures we have in the budget and if we do not get the deficit...