Results 301-320 of 904 for speaker:Ray Butler

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Never in government.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Get-out clauses for landlords.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Deputy Michael McGrath is in denial.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: I wish to comment on the more general area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: I thank the Minister for coming in today with the Estimates. We talk about social inclusion and the commitment to that and the Minister knows about my concern, which is the self-employed social inclusion. We commissioned the Mangan report, in which the Minister was involved and which came up with a new stamp at 5.5% to give sick pay and disability, which would be assessed in the long term....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: I am talking about the gentleman who is a painter or a candlestick maker who is just bringing in a normal income. He would have to pay the stamp but the gentleman who has three or four pharmacies - to take the example of pharmacies - and a big turnover of a few million euro a year, would not be jumping out of his skin when we would say that we would slap another 1.5% on him to pay for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: IBEC, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Many of them wanted it be voluntary but a good few wanted it to be mandatory. We had a group from the Self Employed Alliance before the committee and the members of that group, representing everybody from the baker to the candlestick maker, namely, the small man operating a business and employing one or two people, were all in favour of the mandatory payment of a new stamp. We must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: No, it is not my phone. During the crash, based on the figures in the last report we got, roughly 20,000 self-employed people were in receipt of social welfare. Hopefully, that figure has fallen since then. Basically, the workers who paid PRSI were paying for those social welfare benefits. Why should other people be paying for the benefit paid to the self-employed when they can pay for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: I have spoken to the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, and hopefully the pressure of what I said on this will come to bear on him, and it would be great if the Minister spoke to him as well on this. A lady who came to my constituency office recently advised me that she was working and earning €400 a week, her husband who was self-employed had got sick, they had two children and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Allow me to finish. It is vitally important that we push on with this new stamp for the 340,000 self-employed people.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: Come on, sit down.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Sep 2015)

Ray Butler: 1114. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the current 3% funding invested into general practice in next year's health budget as it provides same day access to a doctor for millions of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32082/15]

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: Listen.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: Sinn Féin knows all about that.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: When is publication expected of the domestic violence Bill that will bring about a consolidated version of the Domestic Violence Act 1996, including additional provisions to protect victims of domestic violence? When is publication expected of the trust Bill, which will reform and consolidate the law relating to trustees so as to deal better with and protect trust assets?

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: Did the Deputy pay his property tax?

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: Yesterday it was arseholes, today it is mobs.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)

Ray Butler: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle should put the question.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Ray Butler: There is no bailout.