Results 15,601-15,620 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: What about the â¬20 for carers?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: He is inviting this.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: That is true, except for the child benefit.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: It is not even â¬1,000.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: The price of a bag of coal.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: If there are any more resignations the Government might not make it.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: What about the carer's disregard announced yesterday?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: â'¬7.50.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: May I ask the Minister a question?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: He is inviting this.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister should talk to me about carer's disregards.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Some 33% of taxpayers are paying income tax at the 42% rate.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister might be the first Kerry Taoiseach since Daniel O'Connell.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I propose to share time with Deputy O'Shea.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Would Deputy Ring like to speak before me?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I am sorry there has been a mix-up. I am aware Deputy Ring has a long journey to the north west. After all the hype and promises, yesterday turned out to be a disappointing non-event. The Minister for Finance had more than â¬50 billion at his disposal, a massive amount of money, but the result is a bland and essentially neutral budget. There was expectation in the media yesterday morning...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: In his six budgets, his "book of budgets" as he described them, he reshaped Ireland into a harsh, vicious, winner-takes-all society. That was his aim, as we now know. I hope the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, was not one of those present in those dark days, 20 years ago, when the Progressive Democrats conspiracy was being hatched in rooms around this city. Sadly, one...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is aware that I have always been a member of the Labour Party. Such people reaped wonderful rewards from the era of "good time Charlie". It is now clear, however, that the McCreevy luck has deserted Fianna Fáil. Every time, for example, the Government has tried to shape the agenda in the past seven or eight months, going back to spring and early...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I am merely noting a fact of life.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I said no such thing.