Results 6,481-6,500 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (31 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 607. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out his views on the proposed legislation to enforce payment of water taxes; his further views on the widespread concerns and dissatisfaction of citizens regarding these taxes; and if he will immediately dissolve Irish Water and direct moneys and responsibility for citizens' water and sewerage supply back to local...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (31 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 647. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline his planned legislation regarding water taxes; how he will collect so-called unpaid moneys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12978/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (31 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer of dissolving Irish Water immediately and returning the responsibility for citizens' water and sewerage supply to local authorities acting on an individual and regional basis. [12976/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (31 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to date to the Exchequer for the establishment and operation of Irish Water and metering. [12977/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Data (31 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: 711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 597 of 10 March 2015 and the reply received from the Road Safety Authority, if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of disqualified drivers the authority reported to An Garda Síochána in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I am pleased to support Deputy Wallace in this Second Stage debate on the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014, which seeks to affirm Ireland's neutral status by adherence to the provisions of the 1907 Hague Convention (V), Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land. It is a very basic public policy...
- An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister, Deputy Shortall and the other Deputies for their contributions here. I hope we will move forward with the approach advocated in the Bill. Given that we desperately need an approach along these lines, it is disappointing that the Government is not accepting the legislation. The High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill is about transparency and full information on high pay...
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Why have economists then?
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: That is what this Bill is about. It is about naming people.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: The rules are ridiculous.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Okay. According to Paul Sweeney in a recent article in The Irish Timesentitled 'Super rich or super angry: where are you on Ireland's income pyramid?', it would take a person on the minimum wage 8,836 years to make what that gentleman makes in remuneration in just one year. Other incredible earnings disclosed by companies listed on the Stock Exchange in 2013 included €12.2 million...
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: We will have to change the rules.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: -----Mr. Martin Naughton with €1.6 billion, Mr. Dermot Desmond with-----
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: This is in the Sunday Independent.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: U2 have €700 million.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: It is public knowledge.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: I am seeking that-----
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: That is what the Bill is about. We want to know what those people have in order to frame policy.
- High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Tommy Broughan: Mr. Nick Webb, a journalist, tells us that the sources for these figures include stock market shares listed in Dublin, London and New York, as well as stakes in private companies and the most recent sets of accounts from Irish, UK and Northern Irish company offices. However, he concludes that financial digging can only uncover so much and that some people were excluded from the list because...