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- Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: These are too important.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: What is the reason?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: It is a half a per cent.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: The economy is even worse now.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: We cannot hear the Minister.
- Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport when a decision will be made between the two final bidders (details supplied) for Metro North; if he will make available a revised indicative timetable for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45866/09]
- Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the LUAS line BX; when works will commence on LUAS line BX; when will the line be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45869/09]
- Written Answers — Wage Levels: Wage Levels (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employees in the private sector who received wage increases in 2008 and to date in 2009; if any of the banks operating here have given wage increases to their employees in 2008 or to date in 2009; if so, the nature of these increases; if semi State employees have paid the pension levy; and if...
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I was going to say that Deputy Cuffe lives in Dublin Central so he knows a lot about wildlife.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: We heard all about diesel and the impact on the agricultural community. Serious issues remain to be addressed. What the Green Party proposes in this tax is to deal with carbon, change behaviour in respect of climate change and reduce carbon. That is desirable. The question is whether it is a crude mechanism and to my mind it is. It operates entirely as a sanction and there is no clear...
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: There are two points.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I did not get a minute.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: There are two points I want to make.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I seek 30 seconds.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I did not even get one minute.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I wanted to make two points. The first concerns gas and oil home heating coming into play in May. There is no commitment to the vouched system in respect of poorer families. Second, there is no indication of what the so-called robust mechanism will be and how it will address peat and coal coming from Northern Ireland. We know the difficulties of smuggling------
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: This is a crude instrument, with no detail on how it will operate.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: When will that be?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: Tanks?
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)
Joe Costello: I am not sure that Deputy Gogarty's arithmetic is correct on the DVD and the electronic goods. I would not like to discuss the wedding. This is a fairly modest proposal of half a percentage point and it is not going to dramatically change the cost of any item. It is symbolic in the sense that when it was introduced last year it had a deadening effect as it increased the differential...