Results 441-460 of 2,965 for speaker:Robert Dowds
- Order of Business (28 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: It is absolute nonsense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: There is an issue I would like to raise, which is not on the list. Deputy Jack Wall asked me to raise the issue of personal insurance and whether there is any mechanism whereby the Committee of Public Accounts could invite the Insurance Ombudsman or the Financial Services Ombudsman to explain how this operates. There are allegations that because of the six-year rule if insurance companies...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: Would the Comptroller and Auditor General have any advice as to how these people could pursue a course of justice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: Thank you.
- Leaders' Questions (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: Does the Deputy believe in the sale of the remaining 75%?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the standard rate income tax band to €40,000. [19854/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the savings from withdrawing the personal tax credit for those earning above €100,000, at a withdrawal rate of 20%. [19855/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance the savings from fully withdrawing the personal tax credit for those earning €100,000. [19856/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated from applying the 3% Universal Social Charge surcharge to Pay As You Earn employees who earn more than €100,000 per annum. [19857/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Education (26 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the changes she is proposing to the working holiday arrangements of international students while they are studying English; her views that reducing such working holiday arrangements would aversely affect the competitive advantage enjoyed by these schools when attracting international students; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (19 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 255. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the commencement order for the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 will be signed. [19712/15]
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: It was in case Deputy Dooley was suffering from amnesia.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: The Government saved us €9 billion.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (14 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process of opening bus routes to open competition; the extent of this process; the current status of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19068/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (14 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the bus routes being put out to open competition; if he will provide an explanation for this process for each of these bus routes; and the stage the process for each of these routes is currently at. [19070/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (14 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact, or otherwise, on workers in Bus Éireann and Bus Átha Cliath of certain bus routes being put out to open competition. [19069/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (12 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: 215. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Private Members' Bills that have been passed since this Dáil was elected in 2011. [18136/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)
Robert Dowds: To what extent will the remit of this committee have to be altered for us to consider something like the Siteserv issue? If that will be the case, then there is an argument for the remit to be examined for other matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: I welcome Mr. Griffin and his team to the meeting. It is difficult to know where to start because the Department is so diverse and deals with such a variety of areas. I will begin with an aspect of its work which I regard as very important. I refer to the question of the roll-out of broadband services. I am fortunate in that I am an urban Deputy in Dublin so I am not as familiar with what...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service (7 May 2015) Robert Dowds: How much further progress will be made by this time next year?