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- Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: He told them he believed it was time to fix a date for a general election in the second half of January 2011. I hear reports coming through the ether about climate change Bills, mayoralty Bills and corporate donation Bills-----
- Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: -----and that they are all to be dealt with in the blended - that is the new word - amalgamation of the finance Bill and the Dáil returning one week earlier.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: Is it intended to take legislation other than the finance Bill? Will we be sticking by this Gormley edict of going to the hustings at the end of January or by mid-February?
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: If the Taoiseach is going to read out a ten-minute script at the start of each one of these, the 20 minutes will not be long being used.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: I know the Taoiseach was doing the best he could to get through the speech.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: I am only making the point.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: It is daft.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: Agreed.
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: The Government got it completely wrong in this case. We oppose this group of Financial Resolutions because they will hit low and middle income earners. The imposition of income tax as proposed by the Government will destroy the traditionally low level of tax levied on the wedge between the employer's bill and the take home pay of the employee. The Government is going to force down the...
- FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: There was no need to do it.
- Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: He may not get through.
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: And carpet fitters and carpetbaggers.
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: And that when it is reignited it will not get out of control like the last time.
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: There are others over there who will write them.
- Financial Resolution No. 23: Income Tax - Artists' Exemption (7 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: They are already half-way through them.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: The budget yesterday was the product of an exhausted Government. It lacks conviction, confidence and compassion. The impact of the Fianna Fáil-Green-Independent-supported budget has and will consign thousands of low and middle income families in this country to near penury, a serious financial hit, a serious drop in living standards and hardship and pressure they could never have imagined....
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: That is not the question I asked the Taoiseach. I said that his budget yesterday was a product of an exhausted Government and that it lacked compassion, conviction and confidence. The Minister for Finance described it as being sensible, rational and equitable. I said that the Taoiseach's salary yesterday was 13 times that of a person on the minimum wage and today it is 14 times that level....
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: This was costed by the Department of Finance.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: It was costed by the Department of Finance.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Enda Kenny: The measures take in widows, carers, the disabled and the blind, as well as the minimum wage.