Results 661-680 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the plans of the OECD for a minimum effective corporate tax rate to cut down on tax avoidance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25318/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Agreements (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent communiqué by G20 finance leaders on digital services taxes; his further views on plans for a new tax policy based on the amount of business a digital company does in a state and not the location it is headquartered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25319/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the country-by-country report of the European Commission recommending the State to address features of the tax system that may facilitate aggressive tax planning and to focus in particular on outbound payments and reference to the tech giants using Irish corporate tax structures here to repatriate EU wide revenues back to the United States of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 82. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department, including public bodies, in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25921/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25916/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) in respect of each of the quarterly lists of defaulters issued by the Revenue Commissioners for list A in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25676/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) in respect of each of the quarterly lists of defaulters issued by the Revenue Commissioners for list B in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Requests (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ensure public bodies have the appropriate resources, knowledge and experience to apply the Freedom of Information Acts following the recent increase in demand for such requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25689/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25690/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25917/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25919/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 162. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for her Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25913/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25918/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for his Department including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25912/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of renting, leasing and hiring office space for her Department, including public bodies in each of the years 2015 to 2018, inclusive, and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [25915/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: I want to raise several issues, some of which have been referenced before. Just before this meeting began, during Question Time in the House, the Taoiseach was extremely bullish about the desirability of tax cuts, particularly for middle and upper-income people and about moving the point at which people enter the higher rate of tax. We had tax cuts last year. I want to ask the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: There is an additional point I want to raise. At the moment in Dublin and in Ireland generally, land speculation is back where it was about 20 years ago. What is the advice of our visitors? Ireland has always failed to dampen speculation on building land. In terms of an affordable three-bedroom house anywhere in the Dublin region at the moment, the land cost per unit has probably now gone...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: I am finishing on this sentence. It should be offset by a corresponding increase in fuel allowances.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for a Citizens' Assembly on the future of a Dublin mayor. [25167/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (18 Jun 2019)

Joan Burton: This Government has become famous for its policy of kicking the can down the road. The Citizens' Assembly proposal for Dublin seems to fit into that policy. On a technical point, will the gathering of citizens be from all over Ireland or from the Dublin region? We need to know the answer to that question? Dublin is experiencing a number of crises which require urgent action by Government...