Results 2,061-2,080 of 4,085 for speaker:Dan Boyle

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will elaborate on the nature and need for four PPP projects worth €100 to €250 million being pursued by the Office of Public Works under the Government's decentralisation programme. [4068/07]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision is forthcoming regarding the family reunification application made by a person (details supplied). [4219/07]

Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance the existing available tax reliefs and the estimated tax foregone in the most recent annual period from which information is available. [4209/07]

Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: The Minister should be aware that my supplementary question is a development of the point that the most recent statistics relate to 2003. A significant amount of alteration has occurred in the tax reliefs available. The Minister has chosen to extend some but he has not renewed many and some have been brought in that have not been costed since 2003. The Minister has also indicated in the...

Tax Code. (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I do not want circumstances to arise in which it becomes necessary to commission a further three-volume report examining the effects of particular tax reliefs. The massive Indecon report dealt only with property based tax reliefs. The information available to Deputies is out of date. We have still not been informed what type of public accountability mechanism the Minister has introduced...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: New homes.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: It is appalling that in the past ten years——

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: A State agency.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: He is jumping out of his seat.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: We do not even know if they do.

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her recent contacts with Greencore and former Greencore workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3710/07]

Written Answers — Sugar Beet Industry: Sugar Beet Industry (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will withhold restructuring funds from Greencore, in view of the fact that they are in breach of their terms of the social aspect of the restructuring plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3711/07]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason a television channel (details supplied) is still not available as a free channel on some aerial based systems throughout the country including parts of County Cork. [4099/07]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 445: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the provision of a comprehensive, integrated, environmental monitoring programme as recommended under the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the draft Rural Development Programme 2007 to 2013 will be included in the final version of the document. [42908/06]

Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: I congratulate the Minister for Finance on introducing his third Finance Bill. This is his third set of budgets and Finance Bills to come before the House, a trilogy. It is something not many of his predecessors achieved and it gives us the opportunity to assess over a three-year period the Minister's medium-term plan and how it has succeeded. On the positive side the Minister has achieved...

Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: The Minister does his own recycling, but I would not say it is environmentally sustainable. We hear too much of it in this House. It was leaked beforehand that sustainable energy sources would be recognised in the Bill for BES schemes, yet they have not been specified. Another opportunity could have been provided for in the area of regional development. Deputy Cowley mentioned County Mayo,...

Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Perhaps Uriah Heep.

Written Answers — Common Security and Defence Policy: Common Security and Defence Policy (1 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the memorandum of understanding between Ireland and the other Nordic countries involved in the Nordic battlegroups has not been placed in the Dáil Éireann Library as promised by him in November 2006; and the progress in Ireland joining the Nordic EU battlegroup. [2926/07]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (1 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of medical personnel, including dentists, serving overseas with Irish soldiers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2925/07]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (1 Feb 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason VAT registered individuals purchasing high fuel emission commercial vehicles (details supplied) receive a full VAT refund and therefore only pay the nominal VRT fee despite the increased pollution caused by such vehicles; and if he will address this issue in the context of planned changes in environmental taxation as announced in...