Results 661-680 of 4,404 for speaker:Liz McManus

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The Labour Party supports a carbon tax. We have argued for it and presented the case in various policy documents. We have been clear and unequivocal. Therefore, it is most regrettable that what was presented in this budget is a carbon tax which will not protect the poor and tackle climate change and the big polluters. It is a disgraceful carbon tax. In particular, it is a disgrace when...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I would have a little modesty if I was the Minister, especially when one looks at the scam he has perpetrated with his 5% reduction in ministerial pay. A cleaner in his Department will face a 5% reduction-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I was interrupted by a Minister who has no shame-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: -----when it comes to representing the principles of his party. I will represent the principles of his party.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I would like to have the chance to do so now. Carbon tax must be dedicated to dealing with the issues relating to fuel poverty, climate change and tackling the big polluters. Rregrettably, this carbon tax does none of those things. Fuel poverty is a really important issue which must be tackled. All we got in the Budget Statement was that there will be some kind of vouched system some time...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: This is not a game or a competition.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: We have all-party support for a Bill that has already had an outline published.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The Minister has blown it anyway. He is going to Copenhagen without having done anything to ensure the message goes out from Ireland that we will have a decent carbon tax, climate change legislation and we are playing our part in meeting the greatest challenge of our generation. My last point relates to the big polluters. Even Friends of the Earth Ireland, who are friends with the Green...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Friends of the Earth state: It is lamentable that the Government plans to exempt big polluters from the carbon tax. They will tell you it is because these companies face a carbon price through the European ETS.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: It continues: In fact, we all know they got almost all their pollution permits for free. That did not stop them raising prices to customers to reflect the market value of the permits. Until they have to buy the permits at auction, they should pay the carbon tax like everyone else.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: To do so would mean the Government has to take on the big, rich and powerful. The trademark of this budget, through every line, is that the rich will get off the hook. It is the cleaner in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government's Department who is paying the price while the Minister is getting off almost scot free.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: That is pathetic.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: That is America.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The target is 2025.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: It will be by 2025.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: It will take until 2025 to complete the retrofitting scheme.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Hear, hear.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the financing of the planned colorectal cancer screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45550/09]

Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a comprehensive Health Insurance Bill to replace the temporary legislation which provided for a levy to address the issue of risk equalisation; her plans to provide for a central fund to be used for this purpose and to provide for community rating; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45551/09]