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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: My reading of this is that the chairperson of that group gets to appoint the members of the boards of the subsidiary companies. Will they be drawn from the pool of board directors? Mr. Pakey may not have the answer to this in which case he could come back to us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: It may not even be a question for Mr. Pakey and is probably better directed at the Minister. I just sought Mr. Pakey's view. My reading suggests that the chairperson of the board of the group will have the power to appoint the board members of the subsidiaries. Will the chairperson be restricted to appointing people who already sit on the board of the parent company or could they appoint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: That is not an issue for Mr. Pakey but it is one with which I would have a problem in principle. I do not know if one would be empowering the chairperson of the board of the group to appoint all-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Yes. I take that as an additional point. I believe that should go back to the Department or the Minister for ultimate appointment if that be the case. I thank Mr. Pakey for his helpful clarification on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: As the committee has a great deal of information on the authority, perhaps Mr. Pakey might proceed directly to the part of his presentation that deals primarily with the Bill. I thank him for the other detail he has made available. We have a tight schedule, as a vote may be called in the Dáil shortly.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I voted against the raid on the pension fund.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I have a list of things that the Tánaiste was against.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The budget seeks to give the impression that the Government is doing something wonderful for the tourism sector in its efforts to attract tourists to the country - which is the case - while on the other hand limiting the capacity of the Department of the Taoiseach and Fáilte Ireland to market the country because funding of €30 million has been taken away. The sector which has the...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: We know the Taoiseach does not debate and we would not expect it.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I would not depend on that.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I thought the real Opposition would not get any opportunity to oppose these measures, such is the level of opposition from within the Government side.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that. I am pleased that the Taoiseach has effectively given in to the pressure to retain the 9% VAT rate on tourism-related products. That is beneficial and helpful and I am pleased that the Minister has listened to the industry. However, in what the Minister is doing, there is an element of the three-card trick. He is also putting a greater burden on the Irish pub trade. The...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: They will not be able to ring the Minister's office with the phones taken off them.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Minister seriously claiming that a reduction of €290 million is not a cut?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Yet the Minister has taken away paternity benefit.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister for Social Protection is taking €30 million from maternity benefit.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach said there was no change in policy.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact on job creation and entrepreneurship of the mandatory PRSI increase on the self-employed recently advocated by the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42718/13]

Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (9 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will subject the sale of any State assets to a post-sale value for money review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42484/13]

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach is out of his saddle now; he is not sitting back.