Results 221-240 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: If the Deputy does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I think we will finish at 3.15 p.m. Does Deputy McNamara, who indicated his desire to speak, wish to start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I thank Deputy McNamara. I invite the Commissioner to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy actually used the entire five minutes available to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I will come back to the Deputy later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy should leave time for a reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: There are two minutes left in the Deputy's time. He will not get all these questions answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I will have to ask the Commissioner to stop at some point unless he answers "Yes" or "No," because the Deputy is running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I will allow some latitude. Mr. Moscovici should not worry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner for those comments. I call Deputy Michael McGrath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner. There is mobile phone interference so I ask that all phones be switched off. Taxation policy was always considered to be within the national remit of each individual country because it was seen as part of their way of keeping their economies competitive through being able to vary their taxation systems. This was because, obviously, for peripheral countries like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner. We have nearly run out of time and the Commissioner has a deadline.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: We will give the Commissioner a chance to have a cup of coffee before he does that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank Mr. Moscovici for participating in this meeting. We hope to see him again in Ireland soon. Perhaps he will not leave it for so long next time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: I propose to suspend briefly before resuming in private session to deal with correspondence and other issues.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: 132. To ask the Minister for Health when a charger for a spinal implant will be supplied in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17947/15]

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: That is a lie.

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: He cannot even tell the truth.

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Liam Twomey: In respect of the charge made by Deputy Boyd Barrett against the Government, it was explained quite clearly to him and I will not repeat it in the Chamber because the committee was discussing a matter in private session. He knows exactly what the reasons were and that they had nothing to do with Government Deputies piling in.