Results 441-460 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: There was a programme on taxation on my local radio station, LMFM, that polled, I am sure, individuals from my area. The support of self-employed people was unreal in regard to bringing in this measure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: That is not logical. The Senator is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: Absolutely. Consider the case of the family of two adults and two children in Drogheda. The mother was working for €450 per week. The husband was self-employed and got sick. He was assessed at €1.60. Would they not be happy paying an extra 0.25% to bring the percentage up to 4.25%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: It is not voluntary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: What Mr. Fielding calls an extra tax is a safeguard to provide some security if one’s business goes wrong. I would not call it a tax. If my accountant told me I had to pay 0.25%, or an extra 1.5%, to safeguard my house and put food on the table, I would gladly pay it as a safeguard, not as a tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Ray Butler: I have been self-employed all my life and know exactly what I am talking about.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: On the social welfare and pensions Bill, last week ISME and the Self Employed Alliance attended a meeting of the joint committee. Everyone is in favour of-----
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: It is the social welfare and pensions Bill. Everyone is in favour of a new stamp for the self-employed. The big question is whether it is going to be voluntary or mandatory. Will the Government move on this over a period of time? The Minister has said she will not introduce a stamp of 1.5% and that she will bring it in in stages of 0.25%. It is a huge issue.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: I just want the Government to move because-----
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: -----the previous Government did nothing.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: Let us recognise the self-employed people through social protection.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (2 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: 44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15003/14]
- Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: When is the proceeds of crime Bill expected to be published to strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau in terms of the forfeiting of the proceeds of crime? I thank the Minister for Finance for his work through Revenue to close off the illegal forecourt selling of laundered diesel.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: The Deputy was an expert at that.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: Given the fact that the social protection Bill will be discussed in the House in May, will the Cabinet consider self-employed people? The likes of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME, and the Self-Employed Alliance, SEA, attended the Oireachtas recently. The Minister, Deputy Burton, has done great work on this matter.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: Is the Cabinet considering it? When the Bill is before the House in May, can we use it to recognise for the first time ever self-employed people in terms of social protection? What happened previously was a disgrace.
- Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: She has done a great job.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: Deputy Ellis was up there a few times in his day.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: He did not make a joke.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Ray Butler: He did not.