Results 20,841-20,860 of 23,601 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: We were doing fine until the Minister made his contribution. It was a colourful contribution. However, he totally dismissed what was said by Members on this side of the House, and that was wrong. That is not a fair way to operate when people make sensible, grounded proposals and when they articulate opinions on behalf of the people with whom they deal every day. I support the amendment...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: He was more concerned with mansions.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Perhaps he should be promoted.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State for mansions.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister will get them.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: People who cannot afford to pay.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will continue by stating my opposition to the proposals regarding the Revenue Commissioners and the fact that the Revenue Commissioners will have far-reaching powers when it comes to forcing people to pay the property tax. Many people fear the implications of the Fines (Amendment) Bill which is to come before the House. The Minister knows that many houses in our towns and villages that...
- Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy John Halligan for bringing forward this excellent motion and my colleagues for sharing speaking time. The motion is deserving of support. Like other politicians, I deal each day with people who are providing excellent care for people in their homes. Nobody should underestimate the value of this work. I was grateful in recent weeks to attend a briefing session in Tralee by...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but this is to be continued.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: First, as all Members are aware, the Minister is a politician of great experience and ability who is highly regarded in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Moreover, I only say that because I mean it. Equally, however, his experience will lead him to know about the people Members on this side of the House are speaking about this evening. They are talking about young couples who are put to the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is smiling because he knows what I am talking about. There are places - and this is no laughing matter - where people approached Government-supporting Deputies for a lottery grant. They would have as good a chance of going to Santa Claus, because those backbenchers will never deliver anything, even if they live forever on that side of the House.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am on the Bill, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am here to speak up for those people and I wish to lay the lie about the better Government services. The inexperience of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, shows every now and then and he let the cat out of the bag when he suggested that if people want to have their roads tarred, they will be obliged to make a...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The houses in which I am interested are those where there are young children looking forward to Santa Claus. Moreover, while everyone knows Santa Claus will come to them, it will be no thanks to the Government.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Those genuine young couples had a better time during the boom, when their expectations were that the work would continue for them,. However, they now find the work is gone, they are left with a massive mortgage and they can see what the Government and the Deputies who support it are doing to them. Moreover, those Deputies should not think they will be able to hide behind the massive...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: While they still are blaming Fianna Fáil, they have forgotten there has been the small matter of an election. They now have the biggest majority in the history of the State. What is the Government doing with it?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is cutting the carer's-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Which is shocking.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Has Deputy Bannon forgotten that he is in government now?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: They will not forget Deputy Bannon.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: We are telling the truth.