Results 701-720 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: It cannot be done without a no-change budget. The notion that the Deputy would not understand that after the amount of time he has spent in here absolutely baffles me.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: If the Government wants Members of the Opposition to submit proposals based on what would happen if nothing changed, and then they put in a budget to say that these are the things they would change, one has to have a no-change budget. Under the EU directives, we will have to submit no-change budgets to the EU in November because - contrary to the heckling - that is what their analysts need...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Next year, the Tánaiste might consider releasing the no-change budget three months in advance, as is standard practice all over the world.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: You destroyed the country.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: You tried to outbid them in every budget.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I met them several times.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Rubbish.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Where is the Government's poverty impact assessment?
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: The Tánaiste has nothing. Where is the Government's poverty impact assessment?
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government does not have one, does it?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of duty collected annually for rapeseed oil; if a cost benefit analysis has been conducted on this duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54797/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (5 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will disclose any ongoing or planned investigations as a result of theTribunal of Inquiry into certain Payments to Politicians and Related Matters for example the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54821/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance the different rates of tobacco duty for cigarettes and rolling tobacco; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54824/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (6 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Health the reason tar levels are not prominently displayed on rolling tobacco; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54827/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (11 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55232/12]
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish to share time with Deputies Clare Daly, Mick Wallace and Mattie McGrath.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Yesterday, I spent an hour on the radio debating with the German ambassador. Among other things, we debated Ireland's banking collapse and the subsequent €64 billion of debt. The ambassador is clearly a man of integrity and he is very well informed on financial and geopolitical issues. What he had to say on the banking debt was very interesting. In essence, he said the banking debt...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government's refusal to allow Dáil Éireann to have adequate time for a meaningful debate on the Social Welfare Bill is outrageous. This Bill will push many people into poverty, yet the Government will not even allow our national Parliament sufficient time to debate it. What is the Government afraid of? Is it afraid its backbenchers may get time to speak? Deputy McCarthy made...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (12 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 27 November 2012, regarding the report she is reviewing from the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare regarding cost-effective solutions as to the way employment incentives can be implemented and better poverty outcomes achieved; if she will release the report to Dáil Éireann for...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Who collects commercial rates?