Results 40,421-40,440 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (19 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of income tax paid by persons earning in excess of €100,000 per annum and upwards in bands of €20,000 per annum; if he will distinguish between single persons and couples, between PAYE taxpayers and those who are self-employed; and if there were such taxpayers paying 0% and taxpayers paying tax at 20% and below. [25375/04]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 373: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the role his Department has in relation to the horse and greyhound fund; if the income and expenditure of the fund are available, including the main expenditure of the fund in each of the past three years and the sources of income of the fund. [25394/04]

Written Answers — Overflight Approval: Overflight Approval (12 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Defence the role the Defence Forces play in regard to the inspection of US weaponry being transported through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24185/04]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (5 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position with regard to the development of the RAPID programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22780/04]

Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (5 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has proposals to alleviate the high cost of insurance on community and voluntary organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22772/04]

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2004)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach is the only one who thinks that.

Written Answers — WTO Negotiations: WTO Negotiations (17 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether world trade talks shall resume. [18044/04]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (17 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the recent report published by the Migrant Rights Centre, Ireland regarding work permits in which it suggested that temporary work permits should be the exception rather than the rule and that permits should be detached from the employer; her views on the recommendations...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: I understand from the Minister of State's reply that he was just landed with dealing with this Bill today and therefore he may just be answering to the Minister's tune. However, what the Minister is doing is deeply unwise and totally anti-democratic. There are a number of Report Stage amendments that have not yet been considered and they have a profound effect on the structure of the...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: I accept your point a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will finish on this point. Dorothea Dowling is one of the most respected figures in Irish financial regulation. She has put the most serious questions to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service. We have had no opportunity to examine those questions and determine whether more scandals are yet to be revealed. Yet Fianna...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: It is seven years late.

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: No.

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: No.

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: I have a question which the Minister of State might put to his officials. When this legislation was introduced some months ago, we were not aware of what we have been made aware of in the past two weeks. Yesterday we heard a statement by the former managing director of AIB, Mr. Scanlan, who said that his wife had made a substantial investment in 1989 and passed it to Allied Irish Banks...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: Amendment No. 129 is similar, it relates to the scheduled amendments the Minister will make to the Credit Union Act. Does the Government agree that in seeking to place the credit union movement under the control of IFSRA, which primarily deals with large financial institutions, some of the requirements for the movement do not reflect its ethos? It is voluntary, collective and its members are...

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: What remedy do we have in regard to the functioning of the finance committee? Decentralisation is one of the most important issues——

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: The Government is railroading decentralisation——

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister of State aware of the statement made to me by the Governor of the Central Bank at the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service this afternoon that until 1996 or 1997, Allied Irish Banks Investment Managers, AIBIM, was an unregulated entity? Has the Minister any plans to order a look-back in respect of such unregulated entities in the banking sector such as AIBIM,...

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister comment on this disclosure by the Governor of the Central Bank and in what way do the Government and the Minister propose to address this astonishing lapse?

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Joan Burton: I asked about the Central Bank, which is the regulator, having identified unregulated entities which were in existence up to 1996 or 1997. Does the Minister propose that the Central Bank should specifically look back at the activities of such unregulated entities? The actions by the Revenue Commissioners are welcome but they do not address the job of the Central Bank in this regard.