Results 24,561-24,580 of 26,148 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the Minister even read our budget?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: A temporary measure, Minister.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: No.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: The difference between 13.5% and 10% is â¬175 million.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: For a change from 13.5% to 10%?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: It would have provided a stimulus to the economy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport the salary scales of the chief executives and senior executives within all bodies, companies and agencies under the remit of his Department in 2008 and in 2009 and the awarding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45956/09]
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: On financial resolution No. 3, the reduction in the standard rate of VAT from 21.5% to 21% was part of our pre-budget submission. It defied logic why the Government sought in its wisdom to increase the VAT rate from 21% to 21.5% in the last budget. It also increased the VAT rate on the day of the budget but we now find that when it proposes to reduce VAT, the reduction does not become...
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: The VAT is less there.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Deputy going to give seed, breed and generation?
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: That will not happen until 1 January.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: Exactly.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister should speak to the motion.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: While I note with interest that the Taoiseach stated we have high excise duties for health reasons, I am not sure that is the full picture. Reducing excise duties has major implications, in particular for Border areas which have significant problems in the sense that alcohol has been a loss leader for shops over the Border, so there is certainly merit in this measure. In the last budget,...
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am trying to bring an overall perspective to the Financial Resolution. The key point is that, while I welcome it, if this is the only proper fiscal stimulus in the budget, it does not augur well in terms of Ireland coming out of recession.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to the pamphlet on budget 2010 produced by the Government. The first item under stimulus measures to create jobs and spur recovery is effectively the reduction in excise duties. I refer to the national retrofit programme, the VRT on motor vehicles, the scrappage scheme, forestry and getting credit flowing, which is only a sop and will not be properly implemented. To make a...
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: That was stated in black and white.
- Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to share time with Deputy Terence Flanagan. I support what Deputy Hogan proposes. This is a reasonable and practical Bill and I commend him on it. What is required is for the Comptroller and Auditor General to audit the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and examine the purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site. The scale of the figures involved is amazing. That is why Deputy...
- Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)
Kieran O'Donnell: I propose to share time with Deputy Michael Ring. This is the eve of the most significant budget in the short history of the country. We are debating Estimates, some of which are revenue neutral, across a range of Departments. The Minister for Defence, Deputy Willie O'Dea, referred to a number of issues including Vote 30, dealing with the underpayment of â¬2.4 million to RTE in respect of...