Results 12,121-12,140 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach revisit the circumstances depicted in the excellent "Prime Time" programme earlier this week on taxation and how a coach and four is being driven through the tax code to assist the very wealthy and elite in our society in minimising or avoiding paying any tax when the great majority of people who get up at 6.30 a.m. to go work find themselves heavily taxed when one takes...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Whatever the justification for the tonnage tax system being manifestly exploited in the case of the yacht that is parked in the middle of the Mediterranean, staffed with non-Irish people, disporting itself in the Mediterranean for the rich and powerful, earning an income of €9 million per year and paying no tax virtually to this Exchequer, in the case of Irish Ferries would one not...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: My colleague, Deputy Howlin, drew attention last October to the fact that the company had decided to lay off 150 staff on the Irish-France routes and to transfer its crewing to a third party agency — in other words, to recruit cheap, non-national labour in breach of the labour regulations and to disemploy Irish workers. Is not the least that we could expect from these companies that are...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Can I clarify the question of whether tax exiles are in the review? The Taoiseach said that they should be but then he went on to confuse that review——

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Let me be clear. The Taoiseach went on and confused the issue with the large cases division of the Revenue that is examining the position of 250 plus high net worth individuals in this jurisdiction. That is a quite distinctly separate issue. The Minister for Finance said in the programme that he was quite happy with the system as it obtained to the tax exiles in terms of residency and that it...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will this review be made public well in advance of next year's Finance Bill? Does the Government have a view on an alternative minimum tax whereby nobody, irrespective of the instruments of which they avail, would fail to pay a minimum of their income towards the common good in this jurisdiction? I wish to ask the Taoiseach about instruments——

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: ——which drive urban renewal and the investor-led property side of the market. Is he aware that, although we have made many changes over the years, he has never looked at the regulations which are now more than 15 years old in terms of specifying the standards, space, design and so on of many of these apartments? In ten years' time, many of them will be very shabby. We are refusing to...

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I would have finished sooner if the Ceann Comhairle had not interrupted me, as he does every morning.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I will do community service.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: That is what I said.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The question of tax exiles will not be in the review.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I said that. It is not in the review.

Leaders' Questions. (25 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: The lads can fly out. There is no problem.

Written Answers — Warehouse Agreements: Warehouse Agreements (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason it was decided to facilitate warehouse agreements (details supplied) by exempting them from the scrutiny of the Competition Authority; if an exemption (details supplied) is the first to which his attention has been drawn in which this device has been used; the rationale for a legislative exemption for these...

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to date to the Garda Síochána and his Department of all the various aspects of the inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17006/05]

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda Commissioner had any input into the selection and appointment of persons (details supplied) to the Morris tribunal; if so, the extent of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17007/05]

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement regarding the provision of CCTV cameras for a shopping centre (details supplied); and the role his Department has in their provision. [17229/05]

Order of Business (Resumed). (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the Taoiseach give the House an approximate date on which legislation will be brought into the House in respect of the sale of a majority stake in Aer Lingus? Deputy Durkan reminds me that on Sunday a political correspondent wrote an article suggesting that before the general election to which Deputy Durkan looks forward, the Taoiseach may have to revise the constituencies again. Does he...

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent report produced by Community Platform which found that national partnership is not meeting the needs of those living in poverty; if he intends to raise this issue with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13042/05]

Leaders' Questions. (24 May 2005)

Pat Rabbitte: I am sure the Taoiseach saw last night's splendid "Prime Time" programme on taxation. If not, I am sure he has been advised of its content. Essentially, it depicted how the powerful and wealthy in our society exploit the tax code to minimise their tax liability or avoid paying any tax at all. The blood of anybody who saw the programme and who goes to work in the morning and pays his taxes as...