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- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: If the Green Party rationale on emissions on engines is good enough for VRT, it should be good enough for motor tax.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Instead of spreading confusion, they should be introduced at the same time.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The Minister should provide clarity on that.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Why are we voting on this motion this evening if it is clear? In terms of motor tax, there is something inherently unjust in charging somebody who drives his or her car 2,000 km each year the same as somebody who drives 50,000 km. My grandmother pays the same amount of motor tax as I do, even though she drives less than 4,000 km per year compared to my 50,000 km. That is fundamentally...
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: We do not know what the Minister will do in six months yet he is asking us to vote on the measure now.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Is that for a year or six months?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: On a point of orderââ
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: On a point of orderââ
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: This is not a joke. Car owners must pay an extra â¬80 million to the Minister this year.
- Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of households with access to broadband in each county; the percentage of households connected to broadband in each county; and the breakdown of these figures by technology. [32736/07]
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: It does not.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: It does not.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The Minister's car.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The present time is comparable.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The Minister is just plugging the hole in broadband created by the Government.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: That is okay if the person lives in Dublin 4.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: He was slow enough to hold the Government's hand.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: The Minister is implementing, more or less, what we have proposed.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: I wish to share time with Deputies Bannon and D'Arcy.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Simon Coveney: I am glad of the opportunity to speak in this debate. There was a time when the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, would use a ten-minute speech to try to goad the Opposition, but he seems to be maturing as a Minister.