Results 10,221-10,240 of 27,019 for speaker:Michael Noonan
- Topical Issues: Corporation Tax Regime (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: I thank the Deputy for tabling this important issue for debate because the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process and international tax generally have received significant media attention recently. Due to a need for a multilateral solution to this international problem, the G20 asked the OECD to report with recommendations on how to tackle aggressive and harmful tax planning. The...
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re: referral to Select Sub-Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Double Taxation Relief Orders 2014; No. 4, Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. a32, statements on the participation by Irish Defence Forces personnel in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force mission on...
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: As I understand it, Second Stage is being resumed, so the Deputy will have every opportunity to make his points in the course of Second Stage, if he has not already made them.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: We have no date yet for publication of the family court Bill. The mediation Bill will be published early next year.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is still on schedule to be published this session.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Normally, items of expenditure are debated when the debate occurs on the Estimates. When the Estimates debate is scheduled for individual Departments, it is either discussed here or at the finance committee.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: The second Bill to which the Deputy referred is well advanced and it is expected to be published in this session. There is no date yet for publication of the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: The proposals in the Seanad electoral (university Members) (amendment) Bill have been discussed in the Seanad already. Effectively, the discussion was on the proposed heads of the Bill but work is advanced on it. Tentatively, it will be published next year.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: There is no date for publication.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Putting down a red line issue is like an auld fellow walking up and down the boundaries of the ballroom of romance saying he will not dance with any of those women over there. Nobody wants to dance with him.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Nobody wants to dance with him. That is the position.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Red lines? Is Deputy Mac Lochlainn joking me? If I could comment on Sinn Féin's economic position, it wants to abolish water charges and property tax. Where will it get the €800 million to bring it to the starting point, if it was ever unfortunate enough to be in government? Who will Sinn Féin nail?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Who are the rich?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: It is difficult enough to construct budgets, but when one begins by moving back €800 million before one starts, then income tax will get a desperate belt, as will universal social charge and personal incomes. These are the Sinn Féin-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: Is Deputy Mathews against that also?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: I thought Deputy Mathews had more sense. It is not possible to construct a budget on the type of proposals Sinn Féin is making-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----and it needs to start again. Go back to basics. Now that the economy is growing, Sinn Féin needs a new model because what it has stated up to now is absolute economic nonsense.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: The House appreciates I am making light of Sinn Féin's pretend economics. That is what I am making light of.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: To summarise the fully costed three budget submissions Sinn Féin has made to me over the past three and a half years, it decided that 85% of the correction in the finances of the country should be made by way of tax increases-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)
Michael Noonan: -----and the total proposal of its tax increases was more than €7 billion. If Sinn Féin thinks the country can take an extra burden of €7 billion in taxation, whether it is the well off, those on middle incomes or the poor who must pay it-----