Results 16,741-16,760 of 27,019 for speaker:Michael Noonan
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Putting down a red line issue is like an auld fellow walking up and down the boundaries of the ballroom of romance saying he will not dance with any of those women over there. Nobody wants to dance with him.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Nobody wants to dance with him. That is the position.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Red lines? Is Deputy Mac Lochlainn joking me? If I could comment on Sinn Féin's economic position, it wants to abolish water charges and property tax. Where will it get the €800 million to bring it to the starting point, if it was ever unfortunate enough to be in government? Who will Sinn Féin nail?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Who are the rich?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is difficult enough to construct budgets, but when one begins by moving back €800 million before one starts, then income tax will get a desperate belt, as will universal social charge and personal incomes. These are the Sinn Féin-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Is Deputy Mathews against that also?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: I thought Deputy Mathews had more sense. It is not possible to construct a budget on the type of proposals Sinn Féin is making-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----and it needs to start again. Go back to basics. Now that the economy is growing, Sinn Féin needs a new model because what it has stated up to now is absolute economic nonsense.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: The House appreciates I am making light of Sinn Féin's pretend economics. That is what I am making light of.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: To summarise the fully costed three budget submissions Sinn Féin has made to me over the past three and a half years, it decided that 85% of the correction in the finances of the country should be made by way of tax increases-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----and the total proposal of its tax increases was more than €7 billion. If Sinn Féin thinks the country can take an extra burden of €7 billion in taxation, whether it is the well off, those on middle incomes or the poor who must pay it-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----it is absolute nonsense. This is what I am illustrating today. I am making light of the so-called economic proposals Sinn Féin is bringing forward. I can understand why it took its stance against the policies we pursued, which were dubbed as austerity policies, but now that it has been proved they have been successful-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----and that the economy is growing dramatically, if Sinn Féin wants to be a serious force in the Parliament, it should at least get background people who understand economics and who can add.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: I thank the Deputy for her submission. BreastCheck has been an effective method of identifying persons in a pre-cancer state who then have the potential of early intervention. It has been rolled out for various age cohorts in various geographic areas throughout the country. It is a progressive scheme. I have no doubt that as the scheme advances, the Minister for Health will take the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: The mandate of the Government runs for another year and a half so there is no breach of any commitment in the programme for Government arising from this.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: I understand the points made by the Deputy. When I was Minister for Health I brought forward the first breast screening programmes and I understand how they are organised. I will speak to the Minister for Health and tell him the Deputy's views on this issue.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re: referral to Select Sub-Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Double Taxation Relief Orders 2014; No. 4, Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. a32, statements on the participation by Irish Defence Forces personnel in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force mission on...
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: As I understand it, Second Stage is being resumed, so the Deputy will have every opportunity to make his points in the course of Second Stage, if he has not already made them.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: We have no date yet for publication of the family court Bill. The mediation Bill will be published early next year.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is still on schedule to be published this session.