Results 61-63 of 63 for 5 million speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Kieran O'Donnell: ...on the elderly. The same circumstances still apply. In pointing out that at the time only 30,000 people did not qualify for a medical card, the then Minister, Deputy Martin, said: "More than 1.15 million people in the country have a medical card so 30,000 is not an enormous figure". A figure of 20,000 is even smaller and is still not an enormous figure. The Minister, Deputy Harney, has...
- Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Apr 2008)
Kieran O'Donnell: ...make available the resources. One hears rumours that the Government wishes the projects to be self-financing, which is a great buzzword. Amid fanfare in the last budget, it gave a welcome â¬10 million to establish the regeneration bodies. However, the value of land has dropped and the regeneration projects have not been costed fully. One cannot take all the glory for starting up...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Jun 2007)
Kieran O'Donnell: I lend my support to amendment No. 2. To put it in context, in the past year some 2,000 people, approximately 5%, of the 38,000 first-time buyers paid stamp duty. It is an immaterial number. The â¬70 million collected from a total intake from stamp duty of â¬4 billion will have little, if any, impact in terms of the housing market. The Government has missed a golden opportunity to...