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- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Ordinary taxpayers on the top marginal tax rate now pay well over 40% and well over 50% when PRSI is added and the pension levy, if they are public servants. The Minister is saying that whenever the banks begin to return to profitability out of the NAMA debacle, that only 50% of their profits will be subject to tax where they have accumulated losses. This is the kind of statement that makes...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: We have had a saga in our newspapers about people running off for expensive weekends at a time when the industry consists of many companies involved in the NAMA process - there are no individuals at this point, it is mostly companies involved in the process. All I am saying is that if people can afford such weekends, I hope neither they nor their companies are in receipt of recourse from the...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: As I recall it, next week will be the first anniversary of an interview the Minister gave to the Financial Times while in London on and around St. Patrick's Day last year. The visit formed part of a tour of financial centres to discuss the situation in Ireland. The Minister will recall his interview with the Financial Times. He referred to the issue of cronyism in Ireland and the fact that...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister did not locate himself or his party? Which is the party of the developers? What political party do the developers support? To a person, they are almost all Fianna Fáil supporters. What was their principal bank? It was Anglo Irish Bank. Personalities in very senior positions associated with that bank were almost exclusively and publicly identified as Fianna Fáil...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: That was the Minister's phrase. He put crony capitalism in the international lexicon in respect of Ireland.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: While he is on his feet, can the Minister indicate why he introduced the term crony capitalism into the lexicon when he spoke with the Financial Times? That went around the world and that was the language he used to describe Ireland.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (9 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: In June the Minister is to get the report on the data he has requested various line Ministers to produce. Will he agree to publish the information and to publish the data in full at that time because there is no calculation of the overhang, except the various guesstimates of â¬7 billion to â¬8 billion? I ask the Minister to confirm he now suggesting that it will be for Professor Patrick...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: It was the Minister of State who named the family.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: This debate is not about any kind of political point scoring, because there is a genuine concern on all sides of the House about what is happening to children who are often in extreme situations. However, the Minister of State has to be more forthcoming with the details about those children who died in circumstances which in any other jurisdiction would warrant an immediate examination and...
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: How extensive is the report on the DF case? Is it true that in some cases those reports are a mere couple of pages? That is important because the Minister is giving the impression that some of the reports are so extensive and involve significant numbers of people and that is a reason for not publishing them, but I understand that some of the reports are extremely brief and may only run to,...
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: But that might be adequate.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State informed when the death of a child in care occurs? Is there a process for initiating an inquiry and setting a timeframe for it?
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister of State be informed if a child dies while in care?
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State informed if a child in care dies?
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State informed?
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister of State has said he is not informed.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: That is outrageous.
- Leaving Certificate Gaeilge. (4 Mar 2010)
Joan Burton: I am not being party political. It is outrageous that the Minister of State would not be informed.