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- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: I too support the amendment. Well thought-out and well-focused tax incentives could bring significant opportunities to Limerick and the mid-west. It is also important, as the regeneration project seems to have hit the rocks, that the Government demonstrates it has some commitment to developing Limerick and offers some hope to the people of that city which has suffered immensely over recent...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Like other speakers, I have sympathy for genuine charities who are trying to manage their affairs honourably, fairly and justly. It is important we provide as much space as possible to allow them to get on with their difficult work. Deputy Burton referred on Committee Stage to sharks, not of the marine type, who might be seeking a loophole in this provision for their own benefit. None of...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: I have sympathy for the Minister having to take this part of Report Stage effectively under another Minister's portfolio. There is a complex implication here because the amendment refers to the draft development plan or local area plan, which is what the legislation refers to also, but is a contravention of a county development plan, for example, included or excluded? That type of minutiae...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: In an earlier contribution, abuses of the incentives were referred to. I agree entirely on this matter. When we consider the Limerick and mid-Shannon areas and Leitrim and Roscommon, we see there are huge opportunities for tourism development. When we consider the opportunities that exist for entrepreneurs, farmers and residents to develop an income for themselves and become sustainable,...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: The Minister for Finance is exceptionally lucky in that he has never been a member of a small political party in the Oireachtas. I wonder whether his generosity would stretch to issuing, to me, one more copy of the Sharia law note.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Unfortunately, that is what I mean by being in a small political party.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: I know that and that is why I am depending on the Minister's generosity in this instance.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: I thank the Minister.
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the level of remuneration for board members of the National Asset Management Agency; if this was set prior to the pay cuts announced in budget 2010; if these pay cuts apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11447/10]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (10 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the start date for National Asset Management Agency acquiring loans in view of the fact that the first round of loans will entail the top ten developers with the largest relative percentage of loans; if the Houses of the Oireachtas will have some oversight into this initial business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11446/10]
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance to explain to the people the reason they are paying the chairperson of the NAMA credit committee â¬150,000 per annum for a three day week, and the reason the chairperson of the NAMA board is being paid â¬170,000 per annum,...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Is their critical work not at least as important as that of NAMA? Why, at the time when pay cuts for public sector workers were announced, did the salaries of the chairperson and board members of NAMA increase substantially? Within weeks, the salary of the chairperson rose from â¬100,000 per annum to â¬170,000 per annum. The increase for the board members was from â¬38,000 per annum to...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: On a point of order-----
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Generally speaking, the Ceann Comhairle is a very reasonable person, but I am after raising a matter whereby a wage increase of 70% has been granted at a time when public sector workers are having their wages cut-----
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Surely some time can be put aside to debate that matter.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: They would chase her home.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Or cancel her passport and leave her out there altogether.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: It is funded by the taxpayer.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: Another one.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Arthur Morgan: The Minister is on talking terms with the Deputy again.