Results 9,581-9,600 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Sorry I thought the Deputy said €27 billion. Some €20.7 billion has been invested in the years in question in the pillar banks. That investment is worth slightly more than €8 billion today, if we could sell it all off tomorrow. Obviously, there is an enormous deficit on the €20 billion we put in. In a circumstance where a deal were to emerge it would then be a...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Yes, I accept that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: I could be very cheeky and say that question is above my paygrade at present. The issue is to get the money back first, or get the scheme through which we can get the money. Then we can worry about where to put it. It was a very good idea of Charlie McCreevy's to put money aside in good times. It was a rainy day fund and, boy, have we seen rain in the last number of years. The...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: He reduced betting tax, which was also a good idea. Obviously, the Deputy never goes to Leopardstown.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: If the Deputy had said when we came into government that only 15% of Bank of Ireland would be owned by the State by the end of 2011 people would have laughed at him. It has been an extraordinary success that we have managed to get away such a large percentage of Bank of Ireland and that that investment has come through for this State. It has been an extraordinary success that the amounts...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: These are the rules to which we have all signed up. The Deputy wants it at all levels. I recall debating with my old friend, Deputy Boyd Barrett, on the fiscal compact treaty and he made a claim then, and I continually ask him about it but I have yet to get the substance of what he was talking about, that there would be no difficulty this year, 2012, putting in place an additional...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Some €2.5 billion on income tax.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: My understanding, when I saw these through the Cartoon Network-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: -----that will be required, is that the effective rate of tax for someone over €70,000 would go to 99%.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Chairman, I will conclude on this remark. Call me picky but the Minister, Deputy Noonan, produced a budget which is proposing new taxes next year and the following year of about €1 billion.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Deputy Boyd Barrett is proposing new taxes next year of €10 billion-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: -----and he believes that is all doable. I will leave it at that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: To take the last question first, I am bringing forward this draft order to make the point that we are in a programme and we cannot afford to make the contributions. When we get out of the programme the question will be whether we can afford to make the contributions again. It is in everyone's interests that we get into the habit of saving and were we to work up a greater surplus at some...
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: The stage is Deputy McDonald's.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: I am look at the clock. It is the Deputy's clock.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: The Deputy is talking down the clock.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: The Deputy does not want a serious debate.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: Keep filibustering.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: That is not a point of order.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Brian Hayes: What an actor.