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- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Let us all work to ensure that the regulatory regime, the food safety standards and the oversight procedures we have in the country have worked. They identified the issue. Irish products were examined by Irish authorities and the results were made known by Irish authorities in order that the standards we demand are maintained.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The notion that we can have a debate as if we are in a vacuum and not in an economic crisis that every household in the country knows about never ceases to amaze me. I am acutely aware, as is the Government, of the pressure on citizens throughout the State because of the economic catastrophe that the country met due to bad political and economic decisions made in recent times. The Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: One thing we need to do is to get people to spend money in the economy rather than save it. The strategy of the Government from the beginning has been focused on restoring the economy and getting the economic infrastructure right to create jobs. In the three years before the Government came to power a staggering 250,000 private sector jobs were lost. It is almost mind-numbing. Naturally,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We have a clearly defined strategy to repair the economy and work towards a balanced budget. We have stimulus and job creation measures that are working demonstrably, including the jobs initiative, which we established within 100 days of coming to office and which has resulted, instead of decline, in-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There are discordant voices talking about individual sectors. Let us take tourism, which is important to such counties as Kerry. Fáilte Ireland has reported that there are 5,000 net additional jobs in the sector since we set up the jobs initiative within 100 days of coming into office. These are measures to address the issues of poverty and joblessness, and our efforts are working...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: As I said in my initial reply, the Government is acutely aware of the pressures on individuals but Deputy Mary Lou McDonald does not listen.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Government is acutely aware of the pressure on families and the impact on them of additional taxation.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The job of the Government is to maintain basic services which we are doing by borrowing over €1 billion per month, notwithstanding the additional burden in taxation which has been placed on people.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The objective of broadening the tax base is to be in tandem with every other progressive country with a social democratic view of how taxation should be levied. We want to avoid levying taxes exclusively on labour and work.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There was a time when the Deputies opposite saw assets as something which should be taxed.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The biggest asset most people have is their own house and that is taxed in most jurisdictions.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I do not cast any doubts on the survey which I am sure is genuine and clear. However, the facts on savings are as stated. Savings increased in the last quarter of last year by over €1 billion.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Government's ambition is very clear. We need to work over time towards a balanced budget, which we are doing. That means squeezing expenditure as best we can while maintaining public services.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We need to broaden the tax base in accordance with the agreed programme for Government. We need a stimulus plan for jobs to create an environment in which people who are under pressure and unemployed can find work.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We need a banking debt solution which we are working on as well. The economic strategy of the Government is bearing fruit.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We understand the pressures people are under but are offering a solution rather than decrying the calamitous circumstances the Government inherited from its predecessors.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: From the very establishment of the Government and before in the discussions on a programme for Government, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were absolutely clear that the primary objective of the Government was economic recovery. A core part of that and the primary issue for Government was the creation of jobs. The Government accepts fully the point made by Deputy John Halligan that the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: To clarify matters, both the Minister for Finance and I met Social Justice Ireland and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul before the budget. Social Justice Ireland held a formal meeting this week with the Secretary General of my Department so we are very aware and in touch and I know the Deputy will acknowledge that. We are aware of the impact of the economic catastrophe that has befallen...
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It is proposed to take No. 11a, motion re membership of committees; and No. 17, Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 11a shall be decided without debate and in respect of the Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012, the Second Stage of which shall be considered tomorrow, the...
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Put in the word Stalinist.