Results 34,001-34,020 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Fiscal Policy. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister astonishes me. How can he talk about them? He should be poring over them all morning.
- Fiscal Policy. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I am rather surprised and a little shocked that the Minister will not be very much involved in examining the details of the October Exchequer figures. The deflationary spiral is all about tax revenues falling. Much of the Minister's budget strategy appears to be around cuts, which will further deflate spending capacity and receipts of taxes such as VAT. He referred to the UK. Does he...
- Fiscal Policy. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: -----that it is essential to have measures in place, in terms of education, training, internship and gaining experience, to get young people back into work.
- Fiscal Policy. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I said it is heading towards 500,000.
- Financial Services Regulation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his reply. We know the Department of Finance and its associated agencies, such as the NTMA and the Financial Regulator, have committed approximately â¬23 million over the period of the banking crisis. We know, as the Minister has just said, that this has so far involved fees to Arthur Cox of â¬1.6 million in 2008 and a further â¬8.4 million covering 2009 and...
- Financial Services Regulation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Can the Minister provide the Dáil with information on the hourly rate charged under these tender prices? Would the rate be in excess of â¬1,000 per day for the senior people working on the contracts? I find the â¬7.5 million fee charged by Merrill Lynch extraordinarily high. In his report on NAMA, Mr. Bacon referred to Merrill Lynch, but it is very difficult to know what bit of the...
- Financial Services Regulation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: What is the cost of employing that person per annum?
- Financial Services Regulation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Can the Minister provide information on the hourly rate charged?
- Price Inflation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The ESB is not allowed to reduce its prices because these are being kept artificially high by the regulator in order to encourage market entrants. That is also what has happened in the telecoms sector. We have a regulatory system of a cost and structure that would be suitable for the United States of America, but is totally inappropriate for a small country like Ireland, with a relatively...
- Price Inflation. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: If the Minister is asking workers to take a big hit, he has to do something about the reductions they are not getting.
- NAMA Business Plan. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: With regard to the power of the Comptroller and Auditor General to institute value for money reports, a series of changes have taken place since the draft NAMA business plan was prepared. Property values have continued to fall. We have received information from various court cases and legal actions. We have learnt that the value of the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend has decreased...
- NAMA Business Plan. (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: There already has been a catastrophic fall in the value of the Irish Glass Bottle site.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: We have not seen any yet.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: As the Leader of the Labour Party stated, the Minister for Finance was anxious to conclude Committee Stage of the National Asset Management Agency Bill in order to bring forward, as quickly as possible, his amendments. However, we have not received those amendments. In addition, we understand that the amendment relating to the 80% windfall tax - the Green Party amendment - is to be...
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It will not be possible for people to escape that tax.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Absolutely.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Absolutely. The Taoiseach-----
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach indicate why the Minister is running away-----
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: -----and is not introducing the amendment in this House?
- Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (21 Oct 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of PAYE workers earning less than â¬10,000; the number of PAYE workers earning less than â¬20,000; the number of PAYE workers earning less than â¬30,000; the number of PAYE workers earning less than the average industrial wage; the number of PAYE workers earning less than â¬40,000; the number of PAYE workers earning less than...