Results 14,821-14,840 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Senator knows that is not true.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is no such clause in the current legislation.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is nothing in the 1986 Act.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I am correcting the Senator on facts.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: For a start, 55% of revenue is allocated to prizes, while a further 6.5% goes to agents and so forth.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: No, 55% of income from the lottery is allocated for prizes, 6.5% goes to agents and so forth and in excess of 30% is allocated to good causes. One then has administration costs.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I did not say that.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The figures are, prizes, 55%, good causes, just over 30%, and costs, including rebates to the retailers, is the balance of just under 15%.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: No.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is not provided for in the original Bill and will not be included in the current one either.
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Can the Senator give assurances in that regard?
- Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: An Post has to exist too.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Sinn Féin spokesperson at the time, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, told the House on 26 September that it was clear the Government's "so-called negotiating strategy on banking debt is in tatters."
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Despite all that was said, any observation by any unbiased person would see the best possible deal for this country was achieved last week. However, it is only one step in the path of recovery. I agree with the Deputy that there must be a social dividend from the incremental progress we are making because, in truth, the people have taken an enormous burden and it is to them the vast bulk of...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: A good deal.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil's criticism of this Government's strategy is based on its denial that it brought this country to the brink of economic ruin.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: You were a member of the worst Government in the history of this State that wrecked our economy.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: All of Deputy Kelleher's finger-pointing and shouting cannot deny the fact that two years ago a new Government came in to pick up the pieces of the broken economy and is now well on the way, step by step, with the help of the people to fix the destruction Fianna Fáil left behind in its wake. We do need to broaden the tax base because Fianna Fáil left us in a situation where we...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Up to 30% of our tax base collapsed because Fianna Fáil had shrunk it. We need to broaden the tax base.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Part of that is to have a property-based tax that is analogous to every other developed country across the world.