Results 1,841-1,860 of 26,021 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: I support this amendment although I was surprised that amendments Nos. 40 and 41 were not grouped. The whole issue of short-term car hire is very significant outside Dublin, especially in my area of the mid-west and Limerick because of people coming in through Shannon Airport. I refer in particular to the scrappage scheme. The Minister is probably well aware that as it stands, the car...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, not when they are bought new.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: No. These firms are buying new cars straight from the manufacturers. I am referring to fleet hire cars, there is no trade-in.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are cars leased by rental companies. They are bought by the garage and let to fleet rental companies. Effectively, these firms will let out the car over the summer season and then return it to the garage which will put it on the forecourt for sale. Those cars will be competing with new cars and they will not take the risk that they will be unable to sell the cars. There is a function...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: A scrappage scheme was allowed in Germany for fleet cars on short-term car hire. This is something already in operation among our competitors in mainland Europe. Why not allow parity and consistency and facilitate tourists who come here? We are supposed to be an export nation and what the Minister is putting in place provides an impediment to that.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will that be looked at?
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (11 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the animal welfare Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11978/10]
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (11 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an application will be made by an employer to enter the employment subsidy scheme where that employer was not in a position to apply in 2009 but can provide employment if admitted to the scheme at this point; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12069/10]
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, ours are worse.
- Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is it?
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: I commend Deputy Mitchell on her motion. I will speak in the context of Shannon Airport, which is the international airport for the mid-west and the western seaboard, and specifically with regard to my own constituency area of Limerick. Governments introduce taxes to collect revenue, so one would not expect a loss of revenue to result from the introduction of a tax. The travel tax brought...
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Very good.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: I hope they will make it back before the end of the debate. The problem is that there should be a junior Minister with specific responsibility for this area. Neither of the two Ministers of State here tonight has specific responsibility for the travel tax. I call on the Government to consider the damage it is doing, see the error of its ways and reverse this tax. We have a new Minister from...
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about Holland and Belgium? They removed it.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Over â¬300 million is being lost.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Studies have been done.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Government introduced it.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is great logic.
- Tourism Industry: Motion (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, they are not.
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Mar 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Question 764: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of third level grant aid for new and existing applicants in respect of third level grants who are in receipt of the back to education allowance, and in particular their entitlement to maintenance support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12736/10]