Results 18,721-18,740 of 20,156 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Application (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: Could the Acting Chairman bring the House to order for my four minutes?
- Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Application (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: Is the House in order for me to take it?
- Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Application (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I am glad the Minister for Finance is in the Chamber to take this matter, which is about the local property tax. Forgetting the rights and the wrongs of the property tax, local authority houses were not supposed to be valued at over €100,000. Now, some local authority home dwellers have had their properties valued at €157 for the half year - €315 for a full year - which...
- Topical Issue Debate: Property Taxation Application (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: What is really infuriating people are the press reports that one Michael O'Leary, who lives in a mansion nearby, will have a lower local property tax bill than my neighbours'. His house has been estimated to be worth between €100,000 and €150,000. Will the Minister confirm that this is accurate? One Mr. Quinn in Cavan, who also lives in a mansion, will be billed for...
- Topical Issue Debate: Upward-Only Rent Reviews (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: We are all socialists like the Deputy and Bertie Ahern.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I ask the Taoiseach to withdraw that remark.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: The evidence shows the opposite.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I asked the Taoiseach about the Constitutional Convention and any electoral reform he may have planned. The people of Meath go to the polls tomorrow and the Taoiseach has sawed two hours off the voting day, held it in midweek-----
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: -----and has gone away from the practice of holding it on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in the case of referendums. The Taoiseach is denying 12-hour shift workers, commuters and students. These people cannot vote. They are denied the opportunity to vote and I appeal to the Taoiseach at the 11th hour to open the polling stations until 10 p.m. The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, did this on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Kildare County Council (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: A good Tipperary man is taking care of you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Kildare County Council (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Michael Malone, Mr. Alan Dunney and Mr. Joe Boland for the presentation. I always thought Kildare was a very dry county as I passed through it on my way to Dublin from Laois. In the north of the county, however, there was clearly a serious problem. I was interested that the work was done using direct labour from the OPW, although contractors are used for heavy equipment and so...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Job Statistics (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the employment levels in the meat processing sector and the value of processed meat exports. [9062/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Job Retention (26 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of jobs under threat as a result of the recent horse meat/food safety scandal; and the steps being taken to safeguard jobs in the meat processing sector. [9061/13]
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I wish to ask about the commitment in the programme for Government on the waiver for domestic waste collection. I have raised this a number of times in the last two years and been given all sorts of fluffy answers. Three weeks ago the Taoiseach told me he would reply on the issue but in spite of the solemn commitment in the programme for Government, only some counties have a waiver. County...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: I have been told there is promised legislation on it.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: What about the commitment in the programme for Government?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: That is rubbish.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: It pays for services.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2013 Impact (21 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration that was given to the effects on the border region in the design of Budget 2013. [14072/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Mar 2013)
Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Health the additional measures he will undertake to address the high price of medicines, both generic and branded, in this State, as compared to other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13788/13]