Results 5,741-5,760 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: No.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: No.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: I do not know if how I will sleep at night is a technical question. I will certainly do so with a clear conscience.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Benchmarking relates to salaries. On Deputy English's question, critical illness cover is exempt. On the banking issue, a colleague of the Deputy stated earlier in the debate that this is a complex issue. I agree with that statement.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: We cannot provide for a quick fix on the floor of the House before midnight.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: I do not disagree that businesses continue to encounter difficulties in terms of accessing working capital and the normal methods by which they involve themselves in business. That being said, it is important we have a critically well examined outcome in terms of setting up the new agency. These complex issues will have to be addressed by experts and evaluated by this House. It is...
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: -----â¬50 million this year and â¬50 million next year - the parameters of which I will announce soon. The matter has been worked on with Enterprise Ireland and signed off on by the European Commission under the State aid rules. We will continue to deal with the issue of competitiveness, one of the biggest challenges we face.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: There has been a reduction in energy costs with further reductions to come and this will address the issue of the cost of doing business. We have worked within this framework during the past couple of months and will continue to do so on the basis that critically we must revert to a situation whereby wealth - I regret Deputy Higgins has left the House - to this State will be such that it...
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Not necessarily.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Unlike the Fine Gael document, I will not cod the people by saying that 100,000 jobs can be created by setting up a new agency.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Could I just say-----
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: On the projected value of the-----
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The figure of between â¬80 billion and â¬90 billion came from the banks.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: There will be a process by which this will be valued and that valuation will be determined in due course.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Deputy English also raised the issue of the timeframe and asked what will happen in the interim. I feel that liquidity in the banking sector will improve on the basis of the decisions to be made by this House, which were indicated today on the floor of the House by the Minister for Finance. Along with all of my agencies, I will continue to work with the banks on a constant basis to put...
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: I cannot say that. That is not the way it is done.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy should-----
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: That is not true. I will explain that to the Deputy some other day.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: No, I do not.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Mary Coughlan: What about Coca-Cola? Is that not in the Deputy's constituency?