Results 5,021-5,040 of 27,945 for speaker:Michael McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved from abolishing personal and employee tax credits for persons with income over €175,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41360/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved from abolishing personal and employee tax credits for persons with income over €200,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41361/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved from abolishing personal and employee tax credits for persons with income over €200,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41362/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved from abolishing rent relief from 1 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41363/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be achieved from applying a 20% levy to the profits in Ireland of tobacco companies in order to fund smoking related health measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41364/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from increasing betting duty to 1.25% and 1.5% respectively while also extending it to online bets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41373/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Semi-State Bodies (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the €100 million extra in dividends from State companies provided for in budget 2013 represents a permanent change in the State's policy in respect of dividend payout from the commercial semi-State companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41374/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Semi-State Companies (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 12 June 2013, if he will provide the net income for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 for the each of the commercial semi-State bodies listed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41375/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield that would be achieved from increasing employers PRSI to 12%, 13%, 14% and 15% respectively for the portion of salary over €100,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41366/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield that would be achieved from increasing employers PRSI to 12%, 13%, 14% and 15% respectively for the portion of salary over €125,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41367/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield that would be achieved from increasing employers PRSI to 12%, 13%, 14% and 15% respectively for the portion of salary over €150,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41368/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Yield (2 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: 204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the yield that would be achieved from retaining the non-principal private residence tax in 2014 at €200 for properties valued at up to €200,000 and €300 for properties valued in excess of €200,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41365/13]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: Now that the latest Exchequer returns and the quarter 2 economic data have been published, we are entering a period of intense political negotiation around the budget, which will be announced in 12 days' time. Fianna Fáil fully accepts the imperative to continue to reduce the budget deficit until we get to the point at which the Minister for Finance of the day is able to stand up in...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: I welcome this. Now, it is about getting the budget right in terms of the adjustment figure and, perhaps more importantly, in terms of the detailed budgetary measures that will be contained therein. In various interviews, the Tánaiste has stated his view quite strongly that the adjustment should be no greater than is necessary to achieve a deficit target of 5.1%; in other words, that...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: If one parses what the Tánaiste has just said, that is a change in his position. He has not just been saying all along that the adjustment can be less than €3.1 billion. What he has been saying, repeatedly and clearly, is that the adjustment should be no more than is absolutely necessary to achieve the deficit target we are required to achieve. That is what he has been saying....
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: The Tánaiste was pretty good at it himself.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: I did not ask the Tánaiste to do so. I asked him whether his position had changed.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: Talk to the ESRI.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: It is factual. The Tánaiste is ignoring the evidence.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Michael McGrath: That is not true.