Results 1,521-1,540 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State and look forward to the information. I might ask a further question subsequent to receiving it. My question is on foot of reports to the effect that the Government is seeking to raise a further €100 million from this section in tomorrow's budget. It would come on top of last year's increase of 50% in the case of CO2 band cars. Has the Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Minister took the motorists out of the equation when he made the decision.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I take it from the response the Minister of State agrees with my allegation that when the Government decided to cut funding to local authorities in the manner in which it did in the middle of the year, it had no consideration whatsoever for the motorist who had paid his motor tax in good faith and the expectation he had for the maintenance of the roads in his county.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: No, I was not elected to the Dáil in 1977. I had no hand, act or part in it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I was elected to this Dáil in 2011 and perhaps the Minister of State would deal with the questions which relate to people's livelihood.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: That has nothing to do with the question. The Minister of State should address the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Motor Taxation (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: We are not playing that game.
- Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister of State. Will local authorities be funded by the Minister's Department regarding any further proceedings they have to take to get the household charge from those who have not paid to date? Also, notwithstanding what I said earlier about the household charge fiasco in the past 14 or 15 months, the property tax that is mooted and appears to have been agreed is due to...
- Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: The Minister of State has given out enough information so far, so he may as well go the whole hog.
- Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I will ask the question again in the hope I might get an answer this time. First, has an exercise been carried out on the cost of proceedings in the event of having to pursue people for these charges? If that has been costed, who is to bear that cost? Will the Minister of State fund local authorities because they do not have the funding themselves? Second, will the household charge be...
- Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: Live horse and get grass.
- Other Questions: Household Charge (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: That is what I asked.
- Other Questions: Pyrite Issues (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I accept the bona fides of the Minister with regard to his efforts to put in place a resolutions board. We have all given him the benefit of the doubt in that regard but this cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely without arriving at a conclusion. I ask a specific question to that end. The stakeholders are pivotal to making the solution cost neutral for the State. Have the...
- Other Questions: Pyrite Issues (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: Can the Minister of State not say he is committed to the concept and the fund?
- Other Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: Does the Government plan to fund rectification works for those who may fail the testing the Minister of State mentioned? As taxpayers - God knows how much they will be paying after tomorrow - do they not have the same right to water and sewerage services as somebody living in the middle of a town? They deserve the same level of facilities and services from the State. To that end the...
- Other Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: I would hope it was under active consideration within the Department many months prior to today and that, in coming forward with a proposal for next's year budget, funding for this purpose would be set aside under the auspices of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Can the Minister of State confirm this? If he cannot, he need not tell us it will be forthcoming...
- Other Questions: Water and Sewerage Schemes (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: Will funding be available?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: What does Deputy Buttimer think of that?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: What about commercial rates?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)
Barry Cowen: Or the legislation on upward-only rent reviews?