Results 11,901-11,920 of 15,555 for speaker:Eoghan Murphy
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in terms of revenue foregone if 80,000 fewer persons were paying universal social charge at the lower rates. [10972/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in terms of revenue foregone if the top rate of universal social charge for self-employed persons was abolished. [10973/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in terms of revenue foregone if changes were introduced, that is, the standard rate of tax was decreased to 19% and the higher rate of tax was decreased to 39%; the entry point to the higher rate was increased by €1,000 to €34,800 for a single person and by a similar amount for one-parent families, married couples...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Just to come back to one of Senator MacSharry’s questions on the changes to lobbying and donations legislation which have been made from learning from the crisis? Excluding the cultural and leadership aspects, is it too soon to tell if we have done enough with the law around donations and lobbying?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne believe that the way to combat this perception is to do this?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should undisclosed private donations from an individual be allowed to continue?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne think the limits could be lower?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Does Dr. Byrne think corporate donations should be completely illegal?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should there be concentration limits on which sectors can donate to political parties?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: In terms of the relationship between the party and the individual, Dr. Byrne referred to a movement towards more donations to the individual politician rather than the party. Will she comment further on that and what the implications of that might be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Earlier, Dr. Byrne talked about corruption being sexy. It can be on TV. In Ireland, is our threshold for accepting unethical or improper behaviour in politicians higher or lower than in other countries, for example the UK? I will cite the Andrew Mitchell "Plebgate" incident which was a resignation issue there. Do we have a higher or lower threshold when it comes to those kinds of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Should there be sanctions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: I have three questions. The first is following on from Deputy Higgins. Did Mr. McDonald find this presumption in favour of development among officials as well? What relationship does our development-led planning process have to that?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Is it Mr. McDonald's understanding that the investigations that were to take place, the external investigations into certain councils, were to look into that kind of behaviour?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Where does Mr McDonald believe that unwillingness came from?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: The system just in itself was not willing to investigate itself.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Who has responsibility for ensuring that light is thrown on the system when it needs to be?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: My second question is in relation to Mr. McDonald's opening statement in which he talks about no effort being made to enforce the anti-sprawl guidelines.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: Exactly. Would there have been competing pressures from other interested groups not to enforce those guidelines?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Eoghan Murphy: For example, from a residents' association or from a body like An Taisce.