Results 12,661-12,680 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: We will conclude on that point. I call Deputy Dara Murphy.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Murphy, I must start another meeting at 3 p.m. I have to ask you to put the question in one sentence rather than engage in more commentary.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: Do not respond to me. Continue with your question.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: As nobody is offering, we will now deal with the second item on the agenda.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: The purpose of today's meeting is to consider item No. 1, four double taxation agreements with the Republic of Uzbekistan, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Swiss Confederation, and one exchange of information agreement with San Marino. Item No. 2 is a Mutual Assistance in Tax Matters Order 2012 and item No. 3 is a motion referred by the Dáil in regard to the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: The British Parliament recently examined taxation. Amazon, one of the coffee franchises and Google were all looked at and when the committee examined tax liabilities and asked those companies about their profits in other European countries, it was very difficult to get that information; one of the companies completely failed to disclose it. Would the convention we are discussing this...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: Is that in the agreement already or is it being added to it?
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: In making any negotiations, the starting position is to enter the process or get out of it. During the general election campaign Sinn Féin had an economic policy that meant we would run out of money on 1 July 2011. I thought they would have matured since then and that we would have engaged in a reasonable economic debate in terms of their budgetary proposals. Members of this House...
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: It is amazing. I wish to paraphrase my colleague, Deputy McCarthy, who spoke about the circus. When I was a young lad, when the circus came to town they always rolled out the clowns first and I am glad to see that Deputy MacLochlainn is following in that tradition this evening.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: One positive outcome of many in this budget is that every opposition party will avail of the service provided by the Department of Finance next year because they were found out this year.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: The headline figure was €3.6 billion.
- Financial Resolution No. 9: Income Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Donnelly has become a populist.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Nov 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Health if home help care will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53469/12]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: I propose that when an adjustment has to be made we should make a quarterly examination of the Estimate to see if the savings are being made on a quarterly basis, as opposed to a balloon payment at the end of the year.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: My proposal would apply to predicted expenditure where we do not have a balloon payment in the last quarter of the year, as opposed to pension requirements which are demand-led.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for assisting the sub-committee in our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate. The clerk of the sub-committee will send a message to the Clerk of the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 86(2) the message is deemed to be the report of the sub-committee.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (28 Nov 2012)
Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2012: Vote 12 -- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: Yes, and the HSE was a measure of reform.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: I wish to add some of my own comments and broaden what the Minister of State has said. A reformed, efficient and effective public sector is a key part of the Government's programme of recovery, because as an operating pillar the public sector is critical to our economic recovery. Before I joined the House, certain Deputies were responsible for introducing the Criminal Assets Bureau...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2012) Ciarán Lynch: Is the Deputy seeking both the gross and net figures?