Results 7,361-7,380 of 23,550 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is a nice thing to say.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: Talk about biting the hand that feeds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to make a point of clarification for the Minister for Finance and the House. During the negotiations on the programme for Government, the then leader of the Fine Gael Party, Deputy Enda Kenny, called me into a room in which-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am making a clarification. In that room, the Fine Gael leader stated to me that it would be good if I were a Minister in a future Government that he would put together. I said that he was not in a position to do anything like that as he had not yet spoken to Fianna Fáil, and that it could be discussed at another time. The programme for Government was then developed and the Minister...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am just clarifying a matter. That is the truth and the Minister's statement was factually incorrect.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is all I wanted to say. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify and I apologise to my colleagues for the delay this has caused. The Acting Chairman cannot allow the Minister to tell a lie.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry but-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister should withdraw the lie that he stated.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: He should take back the lie.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister made an allegation and I am asking him to-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will not let the Minister get away with telling a lie.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister stated something as if it was a fact.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Acting Chairman is not providing me with a chance to respond.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: How can he tell a lie on the record of the Dáil? Can anyone come into this House and tell a lie? He said something as if it was a fact when it was not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am very sorry but I want the Minister to withdraw the lie.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister said something as if it was a fact when it is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am very sorry but will the Minister withdraw the lie? He cannot say something that is untrue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Deputy exactly what he said. He said that I chose not to participate in Government. One cannot participate if one is not asked to do so. The Minister can understand that. It is like someone asking a girl out to dance. If she says "No", he cannot force her to go to a dance with him. I was not asked to the dance so how can the Minister come in here and say something as if...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----have an allegation made about me as if I did something wrong. I ask the Minister on the record of the House to withdraw the lie that he put before the House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)
Michael Healy-Rae: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance if a survey will be undertaken of the hospitality sector before a decision is made on retaining the 13% VAT rate in view of the effect on business to date. [25794/19]