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Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: She is making the same speech she made last Thursday.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: 538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding can be sourced to provide traffic lights at a junction (details supplied) in Dublin 11, within the current budget for 2015, as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6930/15]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: I congratulate the Minister and Ministers of State on the work they have done. A Government Deputy would almost be expected to say that but I genuinely mean it. We are in a different place now than was the case four years ago in the context of what is available for SMEs. When one is driving to work, one regularly hears radio advertisements relating to the Credit Review Office, access to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: I recognise this is a difficult task.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: I want to highlight that I am not making a criticism. I am only short of knocking on the doors of the 40,000 homes in my area to tell them about some of the services available in other walks of life.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: People often say they have never heard of schemes and I know we cannot please everybody. I just wanted to check that we are constantly ticking away at maximum penetration.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (18 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if the appropriate tax has been paid in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7338/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: Both delegates but Mr. Fielding, in particular, might respond to the following comment. The Low Pay Commission in the United Kingdom has for the 15th year recommended an increase in the minimum wage. The other day it recommended a 20 pence increase, which the Confederation of British Industry, CBI, a body somewhat equivalent to the one represented here, broadly welcomed. I recognise that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: One of the disadvantages of being last to contribute is that most of the questions have been asked. I agree with Mr. O'Brien that one of the main issues in regard to household income is jobless households, but I must also state the obvious, namely, that earning €8.65 an hour is a significant contributor to income inequality. It also affects a person's opportunity to not just survive...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

John Lyons: I welcome the Bill, which is one that has been some time in the making. It is exceptionally positive. Much of the time, people who occasionally glance into the political world in the Dáil Chamber might ask about the relevance of some of the Bills passed through the House. Although we might know how relevant each Bill is that becomes law, the Children and Family Relationships Bill is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: I did some sums. I tried to equate the €350 million which has to be found through the Exchequer to implement the reduction in the VAT rate for the tourism sector and associated industries since 2011, plus the approximately €300 million or €350 million spent each year on subsidising people in work through family income supplement. A minimum of €2 billion of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: Ms Callan read out figures for those on the minimum wage but the figures from a previous speaker were that in 2011 those on the minimum wage stood at 10.8% and that had increased in 2014 to 15%. Someone’s figures are wrong. I am not saying whether they are Ms Callan’s or the previous speaker’s but there is a discrepancy there. I accept there are businesses which are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: They were CSO figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: CSO figures, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: Does Mr. Noonan believe there might be some members he represents who, if they had a choice, would further reduce the minimum wage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: I thank Mr. Noonan.

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: I entered the Chamber approximately an hour ago. I usually arrive a little early so that I can get involved in what other people, hopefully with a bit of passion and experience, are saying. It can inform what I have prepared in advance. We debated this matter last March. A number of Members were present, for example, Deputy Crowe. Possibly for the first time, we held a significant...

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: Perhaps the Deputy is right. I referred to Ms Elizabeth O'Farrell, the lady who exited the GPO with the heroes of the 1916 Rising and gave the surrender flag to the British. As we all know, she has been airbrushed out of the picture depicting the moment of surrender. In most of the photographs that we see, there is a man in her place. I know, TENI knows and transgender people know what it...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: There are a couple of us here.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2015)

John Lyons: I wish to share time with Deputy Conway. I am delighted to speak here today. I do not have a lot prepared. I received a call that I was due to speak; I thought I was due to speak later today. A number of things come to mind. The teenagers who beat Declan Flynn to death because they thought he was gay were given suspended sentences 32 years ago yesterday. That was the type of society...