Results 14,121-14,140 of 16,316 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: No, I want to pay my taxes.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Earth to Minister Hogan - please come in.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: No, that is not the case.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We mean people in the Minister's salary range.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: In conclusion, what happened to the alter ego of Deputy Enda Kenny?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Opposition alter ego of Deputy Enda Kenny said "It is morally unjust and unfair to tax a person's home and by so doing grind him into the ground." We are seeing a flip-flop Taoiseach who makes a habit of saying one thing in opposition and doing the opposite in government.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The first rule of any tax should be the ability to pay. Some weeks ago I spoke to a man who is at breaking point. He has debts of some €20,000 arising from a collapsed business and a mortgage which was approximately €160,000 several years ago and on which he has been unable to make repayments. His business debts have increased to €30,000 while the mortgage has gone up...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: I met a couple last week of whom one has lost his job and the other is working 15 hours per week. For one week out of every month they have absolutely no money. In the winter, for example, they cannot afford heating for one week in every four. One of their children has asthma and each month they have to beg and borrow the money to bring the child 15 miles up the road.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Some 180,000 mortgages in this State are in distress, the home owners in question living in terrible fear of repossession. Credit unions have indicated that 1.8 million people in this State are scraping for less than €100 at the end of the month. Hundreds of thousands are in negative equity and imprisoned by the unsustainable debt created by a collapsed market. What is the...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: I am happy to outline it if the Deputy will be patient. Some 400,000 people who had no job were given one in order magically to conjure up enough money to pay the property tax. People living in ghost estates who are obliged to be vigilant every day in ensuring their children do not fall into the holes where the paths should be are obliged to pay the tax. People who built houses on sites...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Earth to cuckoo land.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That was a fact-free contribution.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy should ask her constituents.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We did.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We are abstentionists.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Why does Deputy Anthony Lawlor not stand for election in Castlereagh? He would not get one vote.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: And emigration.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Not for the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That is a disgrace.