Results 881-900 of 8,196 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is the recommendation on tax treaties. Was the recommendation taken?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry, I have the recommendations in the order they were submitted. I will be very brief.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 4:In page 88, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“86. The Minister for Finance shall, within twelve months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a review of Ireland’s trade tax treaties including an assessment of the role tax treaties might play in relation to the global achievement of the...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am ask that within a year of the passing of this Bill, the Minister would prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a review of Ireland's trade and tax treaties. This refers to our bilateral tax treaties. I ask that this would include an assessment of the role the tax treaties might be playing with regard to the global achievement of the sustainable development goals, and...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am aware of the spillover analysis that was done. I welcome that and the renegotiation of the treaties. I was trying to highlight that the context has since changed. Since that analysis two years ago, we have had both, as the Minister of State mentioned correctly, the Paris targets which have been set and also our commitments under the sustainable development goals. Would it not have...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move recommendation No. 5:In page 88, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:"86.The Minister for Finance shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report with recommendations as to- (a) how Part 30 of the Principal Act might be amended to allow for replacement of the current marginal rate tax relief in respect of...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is the most crucial recommendation and, therefore, I would appreciate it if the Minister could indicate how intends to tackle this issue. There has been extensive media coverage of the deep structural inequities within our contributory pension system, which ensure that those who have taken time to care for someone or to contribute to society in different ways have been penalised through...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am aware of the intention to develop a new five-year pension reform plan, as flagged by the Minister of State's Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty. Her Department is considering an auto-enrolment pension system. That will be given due consideration in these Houses, particularly by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Employment...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will be brief. I second Senator McDowell's comments on the effective tax rate and how it can be better. We can look to achieving this and, at this point of the year, we send an arrow towards next year's Finance Bill and the considerations involved in it. There is a question about the effective tax rate and how we can bring it forward but there is also a question about our tax reliefs....
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I note that this Bill has passed through the Dáil without amendment. I also realise that it is a money Bill and it will continue on its journey. While there are measures in the Bill that have already been talked about and praised which are positive and which will lead to a concrete and meaningful, albeit partial, restoration of pay and...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 1:In page 11, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 16. Section 242 of the Principal Act is amended—(a) in subsection (4)—(i) by the substitution of following paragraph for paragraph (a):“(a) his or her public services card,”, and(ii) by the substitution of following...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I hate to interrupt-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will speak later.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will respond.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I need to. I will be brief.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: With respect, I will exercise my right to respond.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sure.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not regard it as a waste of time. It is an important discussion. I have a number of key concerns. I appreciate the Minister's full response. I look forward to debating the issue with her, albeit not just when the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill is before the House. I hope that we will have the opportunity to engage on it in advance of that Bill. A number of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I just wanted clarification. If that is not the case then it would be great to know it.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: So not the PPS number but the new number entered in this new database.