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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Who collects commercial rates?

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: That is outrageous. The Tánaiste should be ashamed of himself. He calls himself a democrat.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The Tánaiste should be ashamed of himself.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Will Deputy O'Dea please watch the time?

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be brief. To be honest, I cannot understand how we are having this debate, over €26 million. The Minister is an accountant and I imagine she shares my reaction, to a degree. I can give her 100 better ways to raise €26 million. Next year €170 million will be paid in increments; €700 million has been paid in increments during the past four years. I cannot say...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategies (13 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to consider or act upon any of the proposals made in the consultation (details supplied) Being Young and Irish that concluded in November, 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56056/12]

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to start by voicing my opposition to the Government's use of the guillotine on this legislation. This is the second time it has happened in two days. Yesterday, the guillotine was used on the Social Welfare Bill. Such a move intentionally stifles much-needed parliamentary debate on these two critical Bills. Before the last general election, the government parties talked a...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The Title of the Bill is somewhat misleading. In schools of policy, they say that a good policy must meet three criteria: it must be technically correct, which is usually the job of the officials; it must be politically acceptable, which is usually the job of the politicians; and it must be implementable. This so-called local property tax seems to fail all three of those. It is clearly not...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The Thornhill report says 0.1% but the Minister for Finance has opted for twice that.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: We can talk about the Thornhill report later.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: If any of them happen to be listening on their office monitors, a lot of strong rhetoric was used in the Chamber in the small amount of time given on Second Stage to change this Bill. Yet, very unusually, the Minister has not tabled a single amendment - not one. Members of the Select Sub-Committee on Finance - including myself, Deputies Doherty, Michael McGrath, Boyd Barrett, Higgins and...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Renters do not pay.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Renters do not pay.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the amendment. In fairness, I give the Minister ten out of ten for style - it was a good reply - but probably a bit less for substance. His reply went to the heart of the concern held across the House, one that has been echoed by his backbenchers. He stated that this was a tax on assets, but it is not. That is the problem. Let us keep using the example used by Deputy Pearse...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: With the agreement of the House, I will share my time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. As I have only five minutes to speak, I will touch on a few issues. The first is the single supervisory mechanism which came out of the recent meeting. The logic of the mechanism goes as follows. It will lower the risk because if the ECB is in charge of the banks, we will not repeat the mistakes of the past....

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: No, it is not agreed.

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, if I may. I apologise for not being here earlier. The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform was speaking with the public interest directors from Permanent TSB and what we heard is relevant to this amendment. I supported this legislation all the way through, fully support the Minister's intention in its regard and fully appreciate his engagement with the...

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: As before I appreciate the Minister's reply and his intent. I encourage him to take a look at the video of the interactions between Ray MacSharry and Deputy Pearse Doherty and myself. He will have to draw his own conclusions, and I appreciate he has not seen what Mr. MacSharry said, but I can quote him. He stated there will be no debt forgiveness and that they will not write off any debt....

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to address the 20% cut to the respite care grant which is being introduced by the Cabinet in the budget for 2013. I will not dwell on the meanness of this cut. I will not dwell on how unnecessary it is in the context of troika targets. I will not dwell on the hardship the cut will cause throughout the country. All of this has been covered with passion and eloquence by many other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the delegates for accepting the invitation to appear before the committee. I am puzzled by their interpretation of their role and surprised by what I have heard. If I understand it correctly, both delegaes essentially are saying they were governed by the same set of laws as non-public interest directors.