Results 49,121-49,140 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (12 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 27 November 2012, regarding the report she is reviewing from the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare regarding cost-effective solutions as to the way employment incentives can be implemented and better poverty outcomes achieved; if she will release the report to Dáil Éireann for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Disputes (11 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55232/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance the different rates of tobacco duty for cigarettes and rolling tobacco; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54824/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (6 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Health the reason tar levels are not prominently displayed on rolling tobacco; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54827/12]

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Where is the Government's poverty impact assessment?

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The Tánaiste has nothing. Where is the Government's poverty impact assessment?

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government does not have one, does it?

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to respond to that. I have spent a lot of time looking at numbers and analysis. The no-change budget was released by the Department of Finance last Saturday. One cannot put a balanced budget together without that. Therefore the proposal that people on this side of the House can put a budget together and submit it to the Department of Finance - which can come back to say...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: It was only on Saturday that we found out the gap that had to be closed is €2.5 billion. One cannot put a balanced budget together without that.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: It cannot be done. The Deputy may not understand. I will explain it to him afterwards; it is not that complicated. It cannot be done.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I will tell the Deputy what he has been doing - he has been submitting nonsense.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: It cannot be done without a no-change budget. The notion that the Deputy would not understand that after the amount of time he has spent in here absolutely baffles me.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: If the Government wants Members of the Opposition to submit proposals based on what would happen if nothing changed, and then they put in a budget to say that these are the things they would change, one has to have a no-change budget. Under the EU directives, we will have to submit no-change budgets to the EU in November because - contrary to the heckling - that is what their analysts need...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Next year, the Tánaiste might consider releasing the no-change budget three months in advance, as is standard practice all over the world.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: You destroyed the country.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: You tried to outbid them in every budget.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: I met them several times.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: Rubbish.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: The entire approach to this budget is flawed. The Government is taking €3.5 billion from the Irish people and handing it to Anglo Irish Bank as payment on a debt we never owed. The Government is taking €3.5 billion from the Irish people but the deficit will fall by less than €1 billion. Why is that? It is because of the payment of almost €2 billion of interest to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (5 Dec 2012)

Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of duty collected annually for rapeseed oil; if a cost benefit analysis has been conducted on this duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54797/12]