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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Damien English: What is the tax for?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Dec 2010)

Damien English: I wish to share time with Deputies Deasy and O'Donnell.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Dec 2010)

Damien English: The main issue I wish to address is the minimum wage but I will come back to it later. Before the Minister for Finance ran out the door, he mentioned taxing bank bonuses at a rate of 90%. Fine Gael has put forward an amendment for tomorrow to tax the AIB bonuses being discussed today at 99%. We could take that amendment tomorrow, which would solve the Minister's problem. I want the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Dec 2010)

Damien English: I should not have to ask. If the country is taking a bailout of €85 billion, it should be clear to everybody who is getting what out of it. The cut to the minimum wage is the most disgraceful thing this Government has ever done. The Minister of State sat at our committee meetings - I see the Chairman is present - where we asked those who were promoting this notion to prove it to us. The...

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: It will not be outside the tax net.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: Income tax will apply.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: I again register our objection to taking four or five resolutions together. It is not necessary to do that and it means that when we are in a position to agree on something with the Government, as with some of these, we cannot vote for it because we do not agree with lumping the resolutions together. We have a serious problem with Resolution No. 5, which I will address, but I want to first...

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: If they lost a couple of years.

Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: No. It was the yearly amount.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: The Ceann Comhairle should have said that to the Taoiseach while he was at it.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Damien English: Will Deputy Flynn vote against the motion?

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: Give or take a few years.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: The Green Party called it.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: That is exactly it.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: Therein lies the rub.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: There are cheap flights.

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: I am pleased to have the opportunity to wind up this debate and make some points. Some of the Deputies on the opposite side do not live in reality and I am unsure what planet they are on. Deputy Mary O'Rourke and others have come to the Chamber and claimed that unemployment is going down and that this is great. It is going down because people are getting on boats and aeroplanes and leaving...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of leasing premises for schools in County Meath; the total cost for each individual school to date since the start of any such lease; if any leases have been renewed or renegotiated in the past 12 months; if the cost has reduced as a result; the extent of the cost savings; and if she will make a statement...

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: We were highlighting that at the time.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Damien English: The Minister of State may be confused.