Results 21,141-21,160 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- 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.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: We are telling the truth.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: What about the ordinary homes?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: There is nothing wrong with his head.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach told them to give out more.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is Christmas, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to try and help young couples who are struggling to pay their mortgages; his further views on whether mortgages should be reduced to reflect the now much lower valuation of the property as against the high price paid for the houses during the boom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56957/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the delay in the administration of student grants in 2012, if he will consider reverting to the old system whereby the grants were administered through the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56501/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56999/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Reception (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding TV reception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56958/12]