Results 26,381-26,400 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 9: In page 17, between lines 47 and 48, to insert the following: "(i) for the year of assessment 2010 and subsequent years of assessment up to and including the year of assessment 2013 in respect of qualifying interest paid in respect of a qualifying loan taken out on or after 1 January 2003 and before 1 January 2004." The Minister for Finance was sympathetic to the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: This was an imperfect attempt to deal with the issue given that we did not have access to the costings. I suggest that the Minister could consider a couple of options. One would be a transition arrangement involving a declining scale over a number of months so that costs could be cut dramatically. Alternatively, the Government could simply agree to give people who are in this category one...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The Acting Chairman is very harsh.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 11: In page 27, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: 20.âThe Minister may, by regulations, and after consultation with the Minister for Health, introduce specific reliefs to help equip Primary Care Centres with appropriate diagnostic and treatment facilities where he is satisfied that they bring commensurate social benefits in the more effective provision...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: What does it take?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I have no wish to hold up the House but, if I am correct, the Minister for Health launched a health strategy in 2001 in which he indicated that he wished to see 600 primary health care centres established. This was a core principle and one of the priorities of his health strategy to reduce the reliance on hospital services. The phraseology used was that this would be the vision for the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I wish to piggy back on Deputy Rabbitte's amendment to discuss the points raised in my amendments Nos. 15 and 16 which have been ruled out of order as they do not arise out of committee proceedings. I understand that some of those involved in charities believe the sections on charities, as drafted in the Bill, could be excessively onerous on trustees and others involved in charities. That...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: My amendments Nos. 15 and 16 have unfortunately been ruled out of order. I believe they represent some genuine concerns among charities. Perhaps the Minister could read into the record or send to me a note on the matter.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 17: In page 34, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: 25.âSection 644AB and 649B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 shall not apply where a change in the zoning of lands was contained in a draft development plan or a draft local area plan published prior to 30 October 2009 and adopted after 30 October 2009. The zoning of lands in the draft development plan...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: This proposal was never debated in the House. It was brought in by way of a Report Stage amendment to the NAMA legislation. It was guillotined in such a way that the House never got an opportunity to debate it in any shape or form. Deputy Ring and others should have had an opportunity to debate this penal rate of tax. It was done on the understanding that nothing would be affected by the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: A Cheann Comhairle, under what standing order are you bringing in this procedure? We are being told that amendments in our name are being disallowed by you because we are trying to introduce new material, but in this case you allow the Government to rescind a formal decision taken by the House without any "by your leave". I do not think that is fair play. If the Minister feels that this...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Under what Standing Order?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The Ceann Comhairle might read out the Standing Order because there is a sense of unfair play here.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Can we hear the Standing Order.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I would like to know what is the precedent under Standing Order 26 for the Government to reverse a decision of the House in this way? This is deciding by fiat that a matter debated and dealt with in order by the House no longer stands. The Taoiseach cannot read out from a bit of a paper and rule out what the Parliament has done. That would be like throwing out some item of legislation on...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: What precedent is there for the use of the Standing Order to rescind a decision of the House?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I have not seen it.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Was the Opposition notified of the intention to make a change?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The white sheet was circulated.
- Fiscal Policy. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative cuts in the public investment programme made to date; and if further cuts in investment in 2011 represents a sound basis for economic recovery. [11991/10]