Results 2,741-2,760 of 8,212 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Skip the ideological-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Since I have been accused of an ideological-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a single question to move it on.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a single sentence.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In an earlier contribution I asked the Minister of State a direct question and did not get an answer. It might be useful on this. Does he believe in progressive taxation? Does he believe that the SARP scheme and the KEEP scheme satisfy the principles of progressive taxation?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Since I have been accused of having an ideological position, let us go there.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What is the ideological point on which the Minister of State disagrees with me?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Are the KEEP and SARP schemes progressive?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not ideology; it is a direct question.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am simply asking whether the KEEP scheme and the SARP scheme are progressive taxation measures. That is not ideological. The Minister of State has spoken about progressive taxation.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is not an outlier notion.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What was the cost of the scheme?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: So we do not know how much it cost for the 87 individuals who benefited.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What ideology?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: To what element of ideology is the Minister of State referring?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is my ideology one of progressive taxation? Is that the tension?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Can we refrain from-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not want to come back in.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I see that. I am just asking whether we could stop getting the exact same answer, which is that I have ideology, so that we can move forward. Can we stop throwing that in?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: If the Minister of State has a view on the scheme and I have a view on it-----