Results 161-180 of 939 for speaker:Noel Treacy

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——the Government demonstrated steady leadership, in the context of the worst economic global downturn in 20 years. Despite the irresponsible carping from the Opposition, a short-term course was set that faced the reality that the level of public spending heretofore could not be sustained as less revenue was at the Government's disposal. The Government realised that by controlling spending...

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——a real basket case, or "the poorest of Europe's rich", as we were famously described in 1987.

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: I can remember back to the 1970s and the 1980s. I remember a change of Government in November 1982 and a doubling of the national debt——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——a crippling of the economy and a maximisation of emigration.

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: The brightest and best left our shores. Thankfully, my party returned to Government in March 1987 and set about pulling the country out of the doldrums of the previous five years.

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: Due to utter mismanagement and incompetence, Fine Gael had presided over a situation where taxes were gone through the roof, with personal taxation rates of 52%——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——rampant inflation of19.3%——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——industrial unrest widespread, with strikes and industrial difficulties everywhere, and the planes full of our best and brightest, leaving our shores.

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: Our young people were leaving in search of jobs in numbers not seen since the 1950s. The facts of history also show that in 1987, faced by an economic wasteland of incompetence and mismanagement, the present Taoiseach, then Minister for Labour, crafted the first social partnership agreement. This first agreement became the template on which stability and prosperity was built and continues to...

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: That is not true anymore. In simple terms our strategy is about more money for pensioners and those on social welfare, more money for child care, more money for the low paid——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——more money for young couples starting out on the property market——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: —— more money for hospitals and schools——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——and more money for roads, railways, transport and housing, while all the time maintaining conditions that promote and sustain economic competitiveness. The Finance Bill carries forward the policies of a Government deeply conscious that in an increasingly prosperous Ireland no boundaries should be placed on giving people the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of this prosperity. I have...

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: I listened to Deputy Eamon Ryan who talked about increases in tax revenue when the buoyancy in the economy is as a result of Government leadership. Solid sound fiscal financial and economic policies drive, underwrite and enhance the expansion of our economy——

Finance Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: ——and create the buoyancy to add the extra billions forecasted in our economic future. We have the confidence to make a positive economic forecast unlike in the past when it was all done in negative terms and concentrated on what we would lose, how much we would be short and whether we had any hope. It was all despair. That has all changed and we continue to forecast a positive position...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Noel Treacy: As both Governments have made clear, the current difficulties in the peace process have been immeasurably complicated and deepened by the robbery of the Northern Bank. Continuing paramilitary activity and criminality is rightly the focus of our efforts to remedy the current difficulties. Removing the impasse and securing the establishment of the institutions of devolved government in Northern...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Noel Treacy: In response to the motion, the House has rightly declared its dismay and outrage at the appalling events of 30 January last, which culminated in two men being left to bleed unattended on the streets of Belfast, one fatally. The shock initially felt by many people at the cold blooded nature of such an horrific crime has turned to anger at the audacity of those responsible, as they attempted to...

Seanad: Lifelong Education. (23 Mar 2005)

Noel Treacy: In response to Senator O'Toole, I have just flown in from Brussels where I attended a very important meeting over the past two days. Even French President Jacques Chirac has now converted to Bertie's socialism. There is a global effort to support the leadership he has given.

Seanad: Lifelong Education. (23 Mar 2005)

Noel Treacy: Gabhaim buíochas don Seanadóir O'Toole as ucht an ábhair seo a ardú sa Teach. The Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy de Valera, regrets that she cannot take this Adjournment matter as she is accompanying the President on a State visit to Korea, but she has asked me to outline the following for the House. Further education is already fully recognised by...

Seanad: Lifelong Education. (23 Mar 2005)

Noel Treacy: I have just been handed it myself, but was told that copies were available for distribution ahead of my arrival. I will make the script immediately available to Senator O'Toole and anybody else who wishes to receive a copy. Expenditure in the area of further and adult education will rise in 2005 to approximately €138 million. Overall, this provision represents an increase of €10 million,...