Results 5,421-5,440 of 7,126 for speaker:Alan Farrell
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Before I call the proposer, I wish to say that, on Report Stage, it is appropriate for all Members to adhere to the subject matter of the amendment. I gave a great deal of leeway in that round. It will not be so in the next one.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Amendments Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, and 8 are related and may be discussed together.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I remind Members that there is just short of 13 minutes left before I have to draw a conclusion to this debate.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Those amendments were withdrawn.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I call Deputy O'Donoghue to speak on the amendment if possible, please. I would appreciate it.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Go back to the amendment, please.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Go back to the amendment.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: On the amendment.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: We do not know that.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: On the amendment.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Deputy Leddin, we do not use that word.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I cannot allow Deputy Leddin to correct a perceived wrong with a wrong.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: Use appropriate language please.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: It is not appropriate to use the word "lies".
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: As the time permitted for this debate has expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with an order of the Dáil of 20 September: "That Fourth Stage is hereby completed and the Bill is hereby passed."
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (22 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank Deputy Durkan for tabling the question. Notwithstanding the Minister's response - the narrowing of the gap is very welcome - we are subject to competition in Ireland and that has been our biggest issue because we are such a small country. There has been much talk about banking union, which would have an impact upon the sort of products Deputy Durkan referred to in his question, but...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for his response and the reassurance that the capital acquisitions tax will not rise in the budget. I cannot better what Deputy Carroll MacNeill has had to say in terms of the position that a relatively small number of people in the State find themselves. Having paid extortionate interest rates in the 1980s and high taxation, among other concerns, they want to support...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance if financial supports for working from home will be examined given the increase in the cost of utilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46209/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for his response. A very fortunate several hundred thousand people got to stay home on what was a wet and horrible morning while more than 2 million people got into their cars or on trains, bicycles or otherwise to go to work, school or third-level institutions. As other Members said, this is about harnessing what Covid-19 brought us, which I believe to be of benefit,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)
Alan Farrell: I agree entirely with Deputy Moynihan, and I support the Minister's comment that the Government does not necessarily have to be the first to move. As we all know, employers are responsible for ensuring their staff who happen to be working from home have suitable seating, among other things, which is important. The employers, therefore, play a role. I fully appreciate what the Minister is...