Results 12,941-12,960 of 16,537 for speaker:Brian Lenihan Jnr
- Pension Provisions. (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I do not accept that.
- Pension Provisions. (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: No I did not. What I indicated today was that we have a period to devise an appropriate solution until the end of the year and that no solution has yet been agreed or decided upon by the Government. As regards Deputies Morgan and Burton, I understand many people are unemployed as a result of the economic recession. I also understand many people's incomes have come under pressure, not just...
- Pension Provisions. (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: No, as I indicated the period was necessary to, first, prevent a disorderly withdrawal from the public services and, second, to afford a period for reflection on how we devise pension strategy and payments for these grades.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I may be able to assist the House.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I may be able to assist the House in this matter. I am anxious to have a discussion on it on the floor of the House because there are certain matters that should be put on the record before I assist the House. First, I welcome the fact Deputy Stagg indicated - I take it he was speaking for his party in this regard - that it was an inadvertent mistake on my part that I did not say "Ã" at the...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: One can argue that, although I do not want to go into a procedural argument about this and want to assist the House. It is an interesting procedural labyrinth we could spend hours exploring when we should be exploring the Finance Bill. With regard to the amendment itself, I have used the time available to have a further consideration of this amendment undertaken at my Department. The...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I fear to tread where others have gone. Of course I do not wish to press that motion. I do not know if there is a procedural capacity in the House to agree the period of three months at this stage. That is the only issue. There may not be and in that case we will go to the Seanad and then back to the House.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: That is not what I am trying to avoid.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: We are recommencing at wherever we stopped last night. I thank the Members for their contributions. Deputy Burton's amendment is only a recommendation in the Seanad because it then has to be voted on in this House and that is the reason I was anxious to view the matter on its merits in this House.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I understand my officials have circulated an information note on Islamic finance to members of the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service. On the question of a dispute resolution mechanism, the legislation was framed to encompass various transactions but it must be understood that when it is enacted it will apply to any transaction coming within its terms, irrespective of...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy is not on the Committee for Finance and the Public Service.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The members of the Committee on Finance and the Public Service received the note.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy can be assured of it in this instance.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I would like to answer the questions raised by Deputy Burton. She is labouring under a fundamental misapprehension in that we are not making Sharia law the law in Ireland in this legislation. We are talking about Sharia financial transactions. The governing law is Irish law and the dispute resolution mechanism is Irish law. We are not conceding ground to some foreign tribunal or religious...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I accept that and am glad the Deputy has identified those two issues. They happen to be the two issues under examination in my Department. There was a business conference on these matters that included both Islamic and other business interests. They examined the proposals in the Bill and gave them a broad welcome. Deputy Burton's idea of convening a conference to examine the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I move amendment No. 20: In page 73, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "(g) in section 291A(1)(h) by inserting ", but this paragraph does not relate to a licence within the meaning of section 2 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008" after "intended",". I understood we dealt with this amendment on Committee Stage. Section 41 of the Bill makes a number of amendments to the new...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am coming to that. It has come to my attention that relief is being sought under the scheme in respect of expenditure which the scheme was not designed in the first place to encompass. The issue concerns the availability of tax relief under the scheme for expenditure incurred on the provision of an excise liquor licence. Since a new liquor licence can only be obtained through the courts...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: To clarify, I flagged this issue on Committee Stage.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The restriction on intoxicating liquor licences is being introduced because of concerns that there might be a false equation of an intoxicating liquor licence as a form of intellectual property which would qualify for a tax relief. I assume, subject to the ruling of the Chair, that my amendment is in order because it relates to a tax relieving provisions. In regard to head shops, the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have a function in that. We are taking steps to deal with the products sold in so-called head shops. In addition, the declaration order under the 1977 Act will include some substances that have legitimate uses as medicines but which can be subject to misuse, as well as certain narcotic and psychotropic substances which Ireland is obliged to bring under control to comply with the relevant...