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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fill a vacancy on the National Council for Special Education (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the backlog the vacancy is causing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18175/19]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: On a very small scale, much smaller than------
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister and his officials for their willingness to attend, unlike one of the Secretaries General, to whom the Chairman has written several times. I am sure there will be another opportunity for us to meet him. I am delighted that the Minister has committed to meeting formally with the Minister for Health to monitor the health budget. He said that he and the Minister have met...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: Did any red flags emerge at those meetings?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: Was expenditure lower than expected in January and February and higher in March?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: With regard to the property tax, what does the Minister say to the people who live on one side of the road and have been paying property tax continuously for a number of years, while someone who buys a newly-built house opposite them is paying no property tax?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: The Minister expects an increased yield from it, given that thousands of properties that are not included in the existing local property tax will be brought into a revised or reviewed local property tax. Would that yield be commensurate with the numbers that are being brought in or does the Minister expect to increase the yield anyway?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: As they are valued now?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (17 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, this matter was deferred to today. In a parliamentary question to the Minister in March, I asked about the archaeological significance and importance of the find at the excavation of lands at Scholarstown. They are known as the lands where the late former Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, lived. I obtained a brief response to that question and an even briefer response...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (17 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I am grateful for the Minister's response. I did not get a copy of her script, so I would be grateful for that too. I received a two-line reply from the Minister to a parliamentary question on this issue yesterday. She has given a much more comprehensive reply today. There is an urgency about the situation. While I take the Minister's point that none of this would have been discovered...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. While I am grateful that the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, is here, I ask him to express my serious disappointment to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, at her non-attendance. It is not often that the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is called on for Topical Issues. If...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: If it could be rescheduled within the current week.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: The matter is one of significance for the constituency of Dublin South-West, in particular the Scholarstown area, and I would like the Minister to respond in person.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (16 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: 591. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that planning permission has been sought for over 200 housing units on a historical site (details supplied); her views on the significance of the find; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17438/19]
- Finance (Office of Tax Simplification) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am happy to speak on the Finance (Office of Tax Simplification) Bill 2018. The principal purpose of this Bill is to simplify the tax code for individual taxpayers, for companies and for the Revenue Commissioners. Ireland has by and large a simple, consistent, efficient and fair tax system. Our tax system as it is currently...
- A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: Fianna Fáil welcomes the publication of Ireland’s new policy for international development, A Better World. It is essential that the ambition in this document be matched by resources, political will and implementation to ensure Ireland will maintains its excellent reputation in relation to ODA and assisting developing countries. Our aid programme has helped to address extreme...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: By cutting other budgets.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Bernard J. Durkan and Kate O'Connell - to discuss a housing issue in south Dublin; (2) Deputy Michael Moynihan - to discuss the roll-out of broadband in north Cork; (3) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - to...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: I call Deputy Wallace who has been given an additional three minutes by the Rural Independents Group.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)
John Lahart: Is that agreed? Agreed.