Results 21,561-21,580 of 23,109 for speaker:Paddy Burke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: The retailer or whoever collects the VAT.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: The way it operates here is that the business collects the VAT from the consumer and hands it over to Revenue. I could not see how the consumer would be handing over the VAT to the Revenue unless it was something similar to the way one pays one's income tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: Regarding the meeting, will the Minister raise the issue of the sale of State assets, such as the share in AIB, to reduce our debt or the possibility that it could be used for infrastructural projects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: If our economy grows further, it will alter the balance sheet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: So if the AIB funds were used to grow the economy, we would have a different balance sheet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: If our economy shrinks, the balance sheet changes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: If the activity in the economy increases, the balance sheet will change also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: If the Minister used the €3.5 billion to grow the economy, the balance sheet would change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: We could well be paying a lower interest rate on the long-term borrowing than new funds that may be available to grow the economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: Is the long-term debt less or more than that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I want to follow up on a point raised by Senator O'Donnell. An article in today's Irish Independentstates that the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund supports a lender called Activate Capital. It has backed Cairn Homes to buy the RTE site for a huge amount of money. It was probably bidding against other companies, which may also have been backed by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I did not say that. I said that the bank should be used-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I did not say that the State should be backing developers and builders. I said it should be giving the money to the banks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: In this case it is being given, through Activate Capital, to a publicly-quoted company. These builders tell us they cannot get funding. That is part of the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: Through the banks.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I raise the issue of the working hours of employees in the horse racing and horse-breeding industries. There was a time when the horse racing and horse-breeding industries were linked to agriculture under 1990s legislation that dealt with employees' working hours. That legislation was amended by the 2015 Act, but for some unknown reason the horse racing and horse-breeding industries were...
- Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well. I have no doubt he will do a great job in regard to his new post of responsibility. Like other speakers, I welcome the introduction of this legislation to put this office on a statutory basis. Yes, I suppose it is another quango but it is both necessary and wanted. Will it do what it says on the tin? I hope it does. Will it save money...
- Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: Tomorrow.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)
Paddy Burke: That is long-running legislation.