Results 9,221-9,240 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: By Europe does Mr. McDowell mean the EU?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: As a shareholder is it entitled to any refund? Is there a mechanism in terms of money it has invested in the EIB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The factual legal position is it is accepted the UK is leaving but there is no mechanism for it to leave. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Improving Investment Opportunities in the Wider Economy: Discussion (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: On that interesting note I thank the witnesses for their attendance this morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The committee is now resumed in public session. This is item 8, session B: scrutiny of EU legislative proposal COM(2017) 114 - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics amending Regulation (EC) No. 184/2005 and repealing ten legal acts in the field of business statistics. I welcome the director general of the Central Statistics...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Dalton for his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I do not mean to cut across but Mr. Dalton mentioned Revenue earlier. Do the companies give the data to Revenue or directly to the CSO? Is the large cases unit situated within Revenue or within the CSO?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: What are the penalties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: They are not very significant punishments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I do not believe I have ever heard representatives of the CSO say they are extremely concerned - a very strong term - about the mandatory exchange of confidential identifiable enterprise-level data. The committee will need to meet in private session to discuss our approach to that. Other than the burden being released from the MNCs, from the Commission's perspective what is the great...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Does the CSO believe it will do the opposite?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The CSO will lose its own information that it believes to be accurate - I do not doubt it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: We have statistics such as ten multinationals contributing half the corporation tax.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Individual companies-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Is it suggested that we should have stronger penalties? Mr. Dalton has said that people are quite happy to pay the fines and not give the CSO the information. Should we have a different regime that incentivises them to comply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Does the requirement to share it at an individual company level come from the VAT number issue in terms of exports versus imports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for attending at such short notice. We will suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave. We then need to make a decision on the decision, which should not take too long.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Apr 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I note from the Irish Independenttoday that farmers are facing huge damage from post-Brexit tariffs, so it is important that we invite the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the House to explain what preparation is being made. Irish beef and dairy exports face tariffs of 16% and 15%, respectively, if a deal is not concluded. It is highly unlikely that the deal will be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Apr 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Apr 2017)
Gerry Horkan: A lead-lined room.