Results 18,761-18,780 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I seek clarification from the Ceann Comhairle, if I may.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: If a Minister has resigned, is it not normal procedure-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----that the House would be informed?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: It does not answer my question. The primacy of Parliament is important-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of nominating Ministers.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government introduced a property tax without any provision for an ability to pay clause for the more than 90,000 people in mortgage arrears of more than 90 days, pensioners and the unemployed, who do not have the capacity to pay. Notwithstanding the legislation, the Government then decided to retain 80% of the revenue that was meant to go to local authorities to pay for the establishment...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister indicated that he supports the position of the Labour Party. Can the Taoiseach clarify whether the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will set out or publish regulations on reducing the property tax by 15%? Does the Government not agree that the honest and simple way out of this mess is to agree at national level that the property tax should be reduced...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The sources cited in this particular newspaper have been accurate on quite a number of occasions. Let us call a spade a spade. It was a Government source. The Taoiseach failed to answer the question, not for the first time. He is living in a land of unreality because councils are being starved and they were shafted by the Government last year. It promised to give them 80% in 2014 but it...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----having doubled it a month earlier. The cynicism and dishonesty of that are clear.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Apparently Revenue needs to know by 30 September whether councils will reduce the rate.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister has not yet set out the regulations, even though this is provided for in the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012. I asked the Taoiseach whether he is going to publish or set out regulations governing the issue of reducing or increasing property tax by 15%. Can we have a bit of honesty on what the Government is going to do? This is not something I am inventing.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is allegedly a row between the Labour Party and Fine Gael. They are saying it quite openly, and not just in the newspaper, as the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, confirmed that he supports the position of Labour backbenchers this morning.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps he is an outgoing Minister at this stage.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach answer it? Will the Government intervene and facilitate the reduction across the board of property tax by 15%, as promised by Ministers, via the cental Exchequer allocation method? In other words, the Government can allocate the necessary funding to local authorities to enable them to reduce the tax by 15%. Will those regulations be set by the Minister?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: They were given nothing last year.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: They are governed by how much is given to them.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister set the regulations?