Results 14,161-14,180 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: It is difficult to support something we cannot see.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Does the Minister believe there should be a retention of the ban on predatory pricing and below cost selling?

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Minister should answer the question he was asked.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Minister has stated he is in favour of abandoning the groceries order. He has just stated he will bring his views on the groceries order to the Government first and then before this House in an orderly fashion. He has already made his views known.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Does the Minister agree that the bans on predatory pricing or below cost selling should be retained? I know this is not easy for me to understand.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Minister is being quite arrogant.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Yes. The Minister should answer the question.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: I did not ask the Minister about the groceries order. I asked him another question.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: I asked the Minister a different question. That is not a shared view.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: It does not.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Has the Minister read the report by the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business?

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: In that case, the Minister is fully briefed. Deputy Cassidy will have briefed him fully.

Groceries Order. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: It is good that the Minister may accept the Members' views. If he had accepted them on the issue of directors' compliance, he would not have walked into that problem.

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Was the Minister in Government at all during the last two years?

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Minister was very disingenuous when he said we always had these levies. A total of €250 million has been collected in levies arising from the Planning and Development Act 2000, at which time the Minister sat at the Cabinet table and allowed the 20% cut in capital expenditure of local authorities to be funded by another stealth charge to communities in the form of development levies. The...

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Government must accept it.

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: If the Minister read the legislation, he would see the levies cannot be reviewed for two years.

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Government imposed the levies.

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: Will the Minister accept that the Government imposed the levies?

Local Authority Funding. (2 Nov 2005)

Phil Hogan: The Government took away the authorities' capital funding.