Results 2,081-2,100 of 7,582 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I will conclude very shortly.There is a wider issue here that goes beyond the scope of this but needs to be mentioned because it relates directly to the recommendation. It is the question of whether non-fictional books are involved. Most of the small number of people who would be excluded from this scheme had this recommendation been in place in previous years were granted the exemption in...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I am coming to the conclusion. Clearly, the ministerial guidelines that apply to the grant of this exemption need to be reassessed so that these strange inconsistencies are ironed out and an exemption that was designed to promote and encourage artistic expression should do just that and no more. In conclusion, and I mean this literally, there are issues I have just mentioned that go beyond...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I think I have the right to come in.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I am speaking to the section.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: As I understand it, I have a right as a Member of this Seanad to respond to something the Minister said about section 4.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I do not think I should have to fight for that right. I think I have proved to the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I am not engaged in filibustering. I am making a serious point.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I have great faith that the Minister of State will go away and think about this.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I have brought up something of substance. My recommendation has been ruled out of order on a technicality and as a result, I was advised by the Cathaoirleach and the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I was within my rights to speak to the section. What I am saying is that section 4 should include a recommendation of the kind I am making, which proposes the insertion of a new section 5 that would...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: I will just finish the point if I may - not in an overly leisurely way but I think I am entitled to that. The Minister of State seems to be saying that even if my recommendation had not been ruled out of order, there is no need to engage with it because the scope of it is somehow different to other matters treated within section 4 of the legislation. That is certainly a very novel approach...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: You have not done me any favours, a Leas-Chathaoirligh-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: No. I will take a little more than two sentences but nothing excessive, I promise you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. First, I am going to do something that is relatively unusual in this House. I will apologise and say I was wrong on one point. I acknowledge that the Minister of State is correct because I now understand what he was saying about the purpose of the section. What I was clearly...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: It is a point that needs to stand in the House.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: Thank you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. You say such kind things to me-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: -----even as you take the legs from under me. May I just address the substance then?
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: No, not the substance of my amendment but the substance of the Minister of State's objections. He said two things. First, he took issue with me for referring to a particularly high-earning individual-----
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: Please. This is really important.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: We cannot and we will not, and I shall not and I did not. That is my point.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: No. I was accused of nothing bad by the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: If the Minister of State came close to accusing me of something bad, it was of being somewhat irresponsible in referring to an incident which, were it to be delved into, might disclose the identity of a particular person. My response to that is important, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, and I ask you to let me make it. I will make it very clearly. If you were to ask me off the top of my head who...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)
Rónán Mullen: Here is the point, though. Our job here is to shape policy and to make legislation in pursuit of that policy. If there is a relevant case that illustrates why change of legislation is extremely important, it simply cannot be the case, under any reasonable interpretation of the role of a legislator, that I may not instance a particular situation which highlights the urgency of change. That...