Results 2,541-2,560 of 4,085 for speaker:Dan Boyle
- Regulatory Reform. (24 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: It is about the Government's policy on regulation and its effects.
- Regulatory Reform. (24 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: I am asking about the situation of the groceries order per se. If the Ceann Comhairle lets me continue for 15 seconds, I will have concluded my questions. The Taoiseach will be in a position to answer, I am sure. My question is about the fact that in this debate, some business interests felt it was unnecessary control of market mechanisms, while others thought it was unnecessary regulation....
- National Security. (24 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: The Taoiseach mentioned earlier his concerns about Sellafield and the extension of nuclear power stations in Britain. Does he, through the National Security Committee, hope to address information that may come from Britain with regard to threats to civil aviation? We had the example in recent months of planes flying over Sellafield that had to be diverted to Scottish airports because of...
- Order of Business. (24 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: I refer to No. 13. When will the House have an opportunity to have a more wide-ranging debate on freedom of information and the comments made by the Freedom of Information Commissioner regarding those bodies which have yet to be placed on the list of bodies which are open to the Freedom of Information Act?
- Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he intends to take to address the negative impact of the significant increase in the rate of inflation for the fourth month running; if it is not timely for more State intervention in view of the fact that increases have been driven largely by higher energy costs leading to price increases in sectors that are largely controlled by the...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance the position of the Government's policy on decentralisation and relocation; and his views on the impact this policy is having on the morale of several agencies, in particular semi-State bodies. [19205/06]
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: Given ever-increasing energy prices, these types of initiatives are not even toe in the water measures. If the Minister is serious about trying to transfer energy dependence from imported and fossil fuels, his officials should be taking a more proactive role in these measures. Do the VRT relief measures for flexible fuel vehicles apply to motors imported by individuals rather than the...
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: The Minister knew that.
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: It took 18 months the last time.
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: I thank the Minister for telling me what my job is. Part of my job is keeping him accountable for promises he made in this House.
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: He has not been living up to those promises.
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: There has only been approval for 12 vehicles in five months and no applications for the second scheme.
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: If the Minister announces a measure in the House, it is incumbent on him to encourage the take-up and use of it. He is willing enough to see property tax relief being used. Why is he not willing to see green tax measures being taken up?
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: I put it to the Minister that it is because the vested interests he represents are not represented by people who produce biofuels or biofuel vehicles. If he were serious about measures such as these, he would put incentives in place. I asked the Minister what type of take-up would be in existence by the time of the next budget. He also told the House there had been 12 approvals, but I asked...
- Decentralisation Programme. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: How about Birr?
- Leaders' Questions. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: What programmes? What weapons of mass destruction?
- Drug Abuse: Motion. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: The motion is commendable and on the face of it there should not be anything in it with which anyone in the House could take issue, but such is the knee-jerk nature of our politics that the Government has seen fit to table an amendment to the motion commending itself and indicating that it is doing all it can with regard to this problem. This is an attitude of whistling past the graveyard...
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if the vehicle registration tax relief for flexible fuel vehicles and the excise relief for biofuels measures announced in the 2006 budget have been introduced; the number who have applied for each of the measures; the number of approvals granted in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19446/06]
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: The Minister is basically saying that, under the first measure, 12 vehicles have been granted tax relief and, under the second, no additional tax relief has been granted. Does this not give the lie to the fact that these are not just green veneer measures in what the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government described as the greenest budget ever? Given the history of...
- Tax Code. (23 May 2006)
Dan Boyle: The excise relief for biofuel measures. That has already been the subject of a pilot scheme measure, and not a very successful one because of the limitations placed on the scheme by the Minister's officials. That took 18 months to secure approval from the European Commission. After making a subsequent announcement to extend that scheme, the Minister says the process of getting the EC to...