Results 6,721-6,740 of 11,050 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Even the Labour Party does not believe that.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: He is taking cover.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I can bring in a bundle of them tomorrow.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: There is now 14% unemployment; we accept that.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Can we all bring them in for the Taoiseach? We will have a clinic with him this evening.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach's pigeonhole will be full.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)
Timmy Dooley: That is unbelievable. The Taoiseach should consider what he has just said.