Results 2,281-2,300 of 2,627 for speaker:Noel Grealish
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: Give us another half hour.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: I will be brief, but I am disappointed that there will not be an opportunity for the Minister to reply in light of the guillotine at 11 p.m. and the fact that other Members have indicated they wish to speak. I would like a commitment from the Minister that there will not be a guillotine on the Finance Bill. The Minister said many of the amendments could be discussed during the Finance Bill....
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: The Minister said the Revenue Commissioners could pursue landlords for the household charge. What about rogue landlords? What is to stop rogue landlords from claiming that the value of a property is €200,000 and trying to get property tax representing that value from tenants while registering the property at €100,000? Is there an avenue within the Bill for those renting...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: These operators are getting away from the Revenue as well.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: Some of it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: The Minister increased VAT.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: What about the sheriff?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: Give us more time then.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: I will be brief because I am aware there are many amendments and many Members have touched on many of the issues already. I want to touch on a few matters regarding this Bill. The introduction of this property tax will be one of the biggest issues facing this Government. There are families - I am not sure whether the Minister's colleagues come across this but we on this side of the House...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: I have other issues that I hope to raise during the course of the Bill. I ask the Minister not to guillotine this Bill tonight and to listen to the Members on this side of the House.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: Deputy Bannon voted for the guillotine.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a football club (details supplied) in County Galway was not successful in its recent application for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56279/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (18 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a football club (details supplied) in County Galway were not successful in their recent application for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56280/12]
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: I will not rehearse what previous speakers stated. Everyone is aware of the tremendous work done by carers and of the money they save the State by keeping people in their own homes. Like Deputy Nulty and others, I would like to know why the Labour Party dropped a proposal it put forward in the context of the budget to the effect that there be a 3% increase in the universal social charge....
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: Well €371 million, there is not much difference.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: I stand corrected. My figures are wrong in this regard. I gave an interview on my local radio station this morning in which I stated that I would have supported such a proposal if it had come before the House, particularly as it would have removed a number of difficulties for the Minister's Department. I am of the view that the Minister does not believe in what is being done here and that...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: He does not say it in the House.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (11 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments of grants will issue to those who have had satellite inspections carried out on their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55537/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (11 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments of grants will issue to those who have had satellite inspections carried out on their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55537/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (11 Dec 2012)
Noel Grealish: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments of grants will issue to those who have had satellite inspections carried out on their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55537/12]