Results 2,221-2,240 of 23,109 for speaker:Paddy Burke
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Phelan, you can refer to a script.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Minihan without interruption.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Minihan without interruption.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Minihan without interruption.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Minihan without interruption.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: I am delighted to speak on this motion and welcome the Minister to the House. It is clear there is a wide gap between Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats on stamp duty.
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform must have done more to check the housing market in this country in one hour than anybody else has done in the past ten years when he said stamp duty should be abolished completely and that the State could do without the â¬2 billion it generates. I do not think anybody on this side of the House has said that stamp duty should be...
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: As well as taking away the first-time buyer's grant and raising VAT to 13.5%, and on top of the foregoing other increases, the Government has introduced development levies, which in some counties have risen from â¬6,000 to â¬30,000. Can the Minister of State imagine the cost that has added to building houses the length and breadth of the country? Passport fees have increased...
- Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: There has been a huge increase in fares on buses, trains and the DART in recent years. These are only half the number of stealth taxes that have been increased in the past three or four years. The Government speaks about increasing wages and reducing tax but one would need the resources of the Bank of Ireland to live nowadays, as a result of the taxes that have been imposed. This is a...
- Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Feeney, without interruption.
- Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Feeney, without interruption.
- Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Senator Feeney, without interruption.
- Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: We would bring chocolates.
- Seanad: Leas Cross Nursing Home Report: Statements (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Hospital Services. (29 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Does the Senator have a question?
- Seanad: National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: I thank the Minister for State for coming into the House and I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. My party is broadly in favour of PPPs and this Bill in particular but the Minister of State should outline some examples of how this might work because the terms in the Bill are complicated, referring for example, to more interaction between the PPPs and the NDFA. I would like...
- Seanad: National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (30 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (30 Nov 2006)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Roche.