Results 17,421-17,440 of 21,260 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: However, Ms Feehily is prepared and she has the instruments to make this mandatory. I understand the point Ms Feehily made about the definition of "financial hardship". I understand it is not her job but the job of the Government and the Oireachtas to make the law and to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Ms Feehily understand my frustration and the frustration of many people who might tune in to this committee session? There is a deferral but no exemption for people who clearly and fairly fall into "persons experiencing financial hardship", and Ms Feehily also used the term "fairness" in terms of the application of this tax. The big problem that all of us face, and that Revenue faces,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome Ms Feehily and her colleagues. I am sure she is aware that there are very many tax-compliant citizens who regard this not as a just or fair measure but as a sort of Big Brother tax and an unfair imposition on them. I note Ms Feehily was amused by the story in the media about GPS data and the notion of Revenue officials hovering overhead taking satellite photographs of homes. Most...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: The crucial point is that it is a deferral, not a waiver, and persons on jobseeker's allowance are still fully liable for the tax, albeit at a later point in time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Will Ms Feehily set out those options?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: What are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 7 - Audit of Revenue 2011
Chapter 8 - Revenue Outturn 2011
Chapter 9 - Revenue Debt Collection
Chapter 10 - Increasing Tax Compliance (21 Feb 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: May I just say-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Members might recall that when Ms Geraldine Tallon appeared before the committee I raised the issue of a public private partnership, PPP, relating to a water project in Cork. In the course of that discussion it emerged that, on balance, the analysis of the awarding of that contract showed that it would have been more effective for it not to have gone the PPP route. I asked for some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, Chairman.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Relations (21 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail in monetary value the volume of trade carried out between the north and south of Ireland by sector for the past five years. [9043/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Upward Only Rent Reviews (21 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the damage done to the economy and small business in particular by the continued operation of upward only rent clauses, if he will direct agencies under his Department to remove such clauses from within leases to which the agency is the lessor. [9053/13]
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: On review of this Government record in office thus far, it would be fair to say that it lacks any coherent policy or approach in respect of homes and housing. The only coherent measure which it has brought forward is its property tax. Not satisfied with the misery of mortgage holders and people in distress, or with the substandard condition of local authority and private sector housing,...
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: This is not choice or coherence rather it is a Government in denial, a Government prepared to turn its face away from the needs of its citizens and slavishly follow the instructions of the troika and its European partners rather than face up to and deliver on the needs of citizens.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: The only people engaging in pie-in-the-sky economics are those on the Government benches. Only a pie-in-the-sky formula would leave families across the State in limbo, struggling with mortgage distress and default, and hobbling along on interest-only arrangements with the banks.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: In its term in office the Government has engaged in what can only be described as gesture politics because it knows there is a big crisis with mortgage debt, as we all know.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: It knows it needs to do something but is not prepared to grasp the nettle. It introduced a personal insolvency framework that leaves a veto with banks. What kind of craziness was that? It probably knows - I hope to goodness it knows - that there is a requirement for write-down which is the only way they can become sustainable. However, it is not prepared to say that out loud and face that...
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: In my constituency I invite the Minister of State to visit the private rented accommodation along the North Circular Road, for example. I invite her to visit the bedsits in which people live.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: I invite her to view the squalor in which citizens of this Republic live in 2013. I then ask that she review her rhetoric as regards choice. That is no kind of choice. It is in fact a kind of misery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Mary Lou McDonald: Are they well aware of the demand dilemma and the lack of demand in the economy?