Results 33,481-33,500 of 34,779 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy does not know what he is talking about.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: That is a different topic.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is off the target.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: That is what the Minister said.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: The Government should reform the public service and not tax those who are ill.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: We welcome the pro-enterprise and pro-employment approach in this proposal and we will support it. We agree with the new employment and investment incentive scheme which came into operation on 25 November last and will continue until the end of 2013. Given that this proposal is only being voted through here tonight, will the Minister explain how the 25 November provision will be given...
- Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for that.
- Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Will the Minister provide us with clarification and additional information on this proposal? The information provided is sketchy with regard to the figure of â¬64 million. Perhaps the Minister might be able to answer a few questions. I respectfully state that if the answers are not available, we will want them by way of replies to parliamentary questions in the near future. How much of...
- Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Are we going to play games in the last ten minutes?
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a disability allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38552/11]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38553/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all tendering procedures were properly carried out, evaluated and concluded in respect of a contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38863/11]
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (6 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive followed up on all matters referred to by the Labour Court in its recommendations in respect of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38864/11]
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: It is fitting that the Minister for Social Protection has walked out from the Chamber. That says it all, she does not want to hear constructive views from the Opposition or members of the public who sat here patiently and quietly and listened to the masked language, camouflaging the cuts that will dribble out over the coming weeks and months. I understand that the Minister is unable to face...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: Regarding the statement on expenditure, the overall consolidation to be achieved in this budgetary process is well accepted by most people and is supported by Fianna Fáil. This is the first opportunity for the new Fine Gael-Labour Party Government to outline its priorities and plans for the future. We agree with some of the choices but there are a number of individual decisions announced...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach has ensured a 35% salary increase for one of his friends. More to the point, on Tuesday last week in the Dáil, the Government parties voted down proposals to cut the excessive pay rates of chief executives of a number of semi-State companies. Each Member on the Government side voted against a range of measures to cut highly-paid public servants earning more than â¬200,000...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: There is no hypocrisy. We accept the consolidation of â¬3.8 billion to be achieved between today and tomorrow. We accept the expenditure reduction of â¬2.2 billion and we expect an announcement tomorrow of tax increases of â¬1.6 billion. We support the overall figure and we agree with the budget deficit targets of 8.6% for 2012 and 3% deficit in 2015. However, individual measures such...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the new approach of announcing the expenditure plans here today. The booklet circulated to Members contains 200 pages and in previous budgets that would have been an annex to the main taxation measures. We all know that for this year, next year and subsequent years the main financial consolidation had to happen on the expenditure side as opposed to on the taxation side and that is...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: -----he will not get hung up on individual choices once they are within the overall budgetary framework and meet the target. He left here in the middle of October after the September review and did not intend coming back until next year because he was satisfied. Once the Government assures him that it will stay within the figures he does not mind what changes it makes. However, the people...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Seán Fleming: They are being made to carry the can for some of these decisions. In the past two weeks the Government announced the capital expenditure programme, which resulted in a reduction of â¬750 million in capital expenditure. As the Minister knows that â¬750 million cut will directly lead to 9,000 people who are in work today not having projects to move on to next year and they will lose their...