Results 33,341-33,360 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (resumed) (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Mar atá ráite ag cuid mhór dóibh siúd a labhair go dtà seo, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh teaghlaigh na laochra móra a sheas an fód i 1916. GuÃm gach rath ar an bhfeachtas atá amach rompu agus romhainn uilig le cinntiú go mbeidh ionad cultúrtha agus ceathrú stairiúil tógtha ar an suÃomh seo i Sráid Uà Mhórdha i mBaile Ãtha Cliath. Is deas an rud é go bhfuil an...
- Tax Collection (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: As stated by Deputy Mac Lochlainn, this issue relates to a company that has been trading in Donegal for well over a decade. I appreciate that Revenue is independent and has to a job to do, which it does well, in terms of the collection of outstanding tax liabilities. The problem is that the scope of Revenue is to collect as much tax as possible without factoring in the wider impact in this...
- Tax Collection (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I will just add to that and reiterate that Revenue is very efficient. There have been weaknesses in the past but it does its job well. There is no doubt the sheriff could have got access to Highland Bakery yesterday. The low loaders and lorries were there and were taking away the machinery. Only the workers were left, who barricaded themselves in. If the sheriff gets access to that...
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister confirm that his Department's structural deficit projection of 3.5% takes on board the â¬8.6 billion of adjustments he is planning to make over the next three years? Can he also confirm that Professor John McHale - whom the Minister appointed as chair of the Fiscal Advisory Committee - has issued two reports calling for additional adjustments, which will be tax increases...
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It has nothing to do with the question.
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Parliament has a veto.
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: The Commission has said that Parliament has a veto.
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Does it factor in the â¬8.6 billion in cuts?
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Does it factor in those cuts?
- Fiscal Code (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: An answer would be nice.
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I want to try to get an answer to this question. I asked about the report on more cuts and tax increases and reference was made to the chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, Professor John McHale. I asked about the structural deficit given the plans to make an â¬8.6 billion adjustment over the three years. In particular I asked what the automatic correction methods would entail....
- European Council Meetings (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order I have asked five questions to which I have not received an answer. I am trying to make the questions quite simple. I do not want to be shouting over the Minister and I am sure he does not want that either as people are probably listening to this debate. I ask the Minister to try to answer the questions. This is supposed to be Question Time.
- National Asset Management Agency (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin has argued we should use NAMA's cash resources to stimulate the economy so I welcome today's announcement. I have not seen clarification on this matter in the NAMA statement. Will the â¬2 billion to be invested in coming years all be spent in Ireland? Of the â¬1 billion that has already been invested, more than half of it has been spent in Britain. Given that NAMA has â¬5...
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail structural deficit projections for 2016, 2017 and 2018 and the adjustments and or growth projections that will be required to move from the structural deficit target of 3.5% which he projects for 2015 and the 0.5% rule that the he will have to meet after 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25884/12]
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I agree with the Minister regarding the difficulty in predicting the structural deficit for 2015 and beyond. A range of moveable factors will impact on the figures to improve them or make them worse. However, let us deal with the Department's best predictions based on the models and expertise available to it. Does he agree that the statement on the programme update issued by the Department...
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: This is a Priority Question at a very important time. A decision was made to group Priority Questions and this denied a supplementary question for this Priority Question. It is inappropriate.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is utterly inappropriate that the option has been denied to us. It is our right to have a supplementary question on the Minister's argument. The grouping of this question by people who are opposed to the treaty is absolutely wrong.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Did I go over the time allocated to me? It is not my fault if the Minister went over his allocated time.
- Stability and Growth Pact (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (23 May 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We had the blueshirts and now we have the yellowshirts.