Results 381-400 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Ray Butler: I believe that in its statement, ISME was looking after the big man and not the small independent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Ray Butler: Last week the Minister told me many self-employed people who can afford to do so pay through the nose for private insurance policies for sick pay and disability pay. Many involved in small businesses would not have a hope of paying it. We could examine this system and examine how the Department runs its system. Ms Kennedy made a presentation and spoke about increasing the rate of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Ray Butler: Ms Kennedy mentioned the value that self-employed persons receive a number of times. Let us look at the value that the self-employed person gives. He or she employs people, pays income tax and PRSI and once a person's name is over the door, he or she is hit with bills for everything. It should be the opposite. It should be the value that the self-employed bring to the economy. At the end...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Ray Butler: When does the Government expect to publish a criminal justice Bill to strengthen the rights of victims of crime and their families and to give effect to a proposed EU directive, in light of what we have seen in the past couple of days?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Ray Butler: Not a word about the homeless in the North.
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: When is publication of the consumer and competition Bill expected, which will make provision for a statutory code of conduct for the grocery goods sector. I raise this in the context of food labelling because a lot of multinationals in this country are putting "made and packed for" on labels, whereas people wanted to know where goods are "made in"? This is having a hugely negative effect on...
- Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: People want to see what country the items are made in, not for whom they are made.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (3 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: 388. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to the four remaining staff of the former regional ambulance control and command centre (details supplied), if the Health Service Executive will be bound by the public service agreements and Labour Court recommendation and treat the affected staff equally by allowing these remaining staff and their budgets to redeploy to the wider HSE and the...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: When is the gambling control Bill to update and consolidate the law on betting and gambling expected in light of English legislation under which a mandatory 3% levy will be placed on all online transactions from next year? We have talked about this for the past 12 to 18 months.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: When will the family leave Bill, which will consolidate all family leave legislation, be published?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: Deputy Peter Mathews is not always right.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: They bailed us out.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: There are two sides to the Opposition.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: Is Deputy Martin a gospel preacher?
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: We have brought in real Dáil reform.
- Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: It was scandalous.
- Business of Dáil (19 Dec 2013)
Ray Butler: It was not.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Ray Butler: Dumb and dumber.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)
Ray Butler: When is publication of the criminal justice Bill expected, to strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, in respect of forfeiting the proceeds of crime? I welcome the news headline in the Irish Independent today that "CAB targets fuel-laundering suspects with 25 court actions". I am sure Deputy Adams and his party also welcome it.
- Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Ray Butler: When will the sale of loan books to unregulated third parties Bill be published? This will cater for the sale of loan books by regulated financial institutions to unregulated institutions.