Results 13,961-13,980 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: As Deputy Stanley stated, the section is fundamental to the rest of the legislation as it establishes the basis for the introduction of the household tax. This tax is being imposed on top of many other austerity measures that have been imposed in recent years. It is clear from other provisions that this is the first step towards broader provisions for a property tax and other charges on the...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, subsection (2), between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "(f) homes purchased under local authority Affordable Housing Schemes; (g) homes on which stamp duty has been paid from January 1st 2003 up unto December 31st 2011; (h) homes purchased through Shared Ownership Schemes; (i) homes affected by pyrite.". The Minister claimed the household charge is...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: Surely, the Minister of State will accept now that these categories, while not exceptional, should be exempted legitimately. Why will he put county managers through hearing all of these cases when he knows those whose homes were affected by pyrite, for example, should be excluded. Will he take the shortcut and build the exemption into the legislation now?
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: As we are sitting here today and tomorrow debating this new legislation, we do so against the backdrop of the necessity for county councils around the country to set their budgets from funding that has been slashed in order to take account of this new tax on home owners. That is an absolute joke. The reason local authorities are being starved of funding is not that we have not paid our fair...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: The Minister's analysts and the ESRI have said that.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: We are on the record now so we will return to this in two years and see which one of us is right.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: I know it will be me. This is part of a bigger agenda and anybody who doubts that need only look at the legislation before us and the penalties to be imposed on ordinary people for not registering and not paying in terms of late interest payments, class C fines, court appearances and so forth. It is really punitive legislation which is not being introduced just for this charge. However, the...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: The Deputy should look at the record.
- Industrial Disputes (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Defence his views regarding the threat that the Defence Forces would be used to carry out the work of firefighters in County Roscommon, who are in dispute with management regarding changes to their working conditions; and if he will ensure that the army is not used in any industrial dispute. [38610/11]
- Industrial Disputes (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: This question should have arisen last week; the dispute has been resolved since then. There is no doubt that the Defence Forces were used, actively and consciously, in an effort to undermine the fire fighters in the course of their legitimate dispute with the local authority. Does the Minister think it appropriate that the Defence Forces should be used in this manner? What are the criteria...
- Industrial Disputes (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: We are all aware of how capable the Defence Forces are, but so is the fire service. The fact that the Minister of State could recount seven incidents in the course of almost ten years demonstrates that this is an unusual situation. Firefighters were in dispute in my constituency last year, and I would support them as I do the people in Roscommon. The workers made arrangements. The fact...
- Industrial Disputes (13 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: Is it only local authorities who have the power?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: What about the PRSI contributions?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: They have lost more than that now.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: There is â¬6 gone from rent allowance.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: The Minister has no say in that. Why does she not deal with the woman in Ballymun?
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (8 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant the necessary treatment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39250/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate the additional â¬20,000 funding to an organisation (details supplied) working to tackle health inequalities among ethnic minority communities by improving ethnic minority access to health services, and ethnic minority participation in health planning and delivery, which they require in order to sustain their service in 2012;...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: The Deputy is losing the game.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Clare Daly: All Labour Party Deputies started their remarks by telling us about the deplorable state of the economy, but its condition was common knowledge when they contested the election and promised to be the guardians of people's welfare against that backdrop. Over the past few days, all of us have received letters from Barnardos, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Social Justice Ireland and others...