Results 621-640 of 19,445 for speaker:Brian Cowen

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: There are 45 invoices due to be paid to private firms by NESDO totalling €119,717.12. All of these invoices will be paid within 15 calendar days.

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: No industrial disputes, industrial actions or work to rule are presently being engaged in by staff of my Department.

Financial Resolutions 2011: Allocation of Time: Motion (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: As the Ceann Comhairle has said, this is in accordance with precedence - perhaps not in more recent times, but when there were, thankfully, different types of budgets that were being considered, and we were talking about reducing rates and duties because of the surplus positions in our finances at the time. There are precedents for this in the 1990s and earlier under successive Governments....

Financial Resolutions 2011. (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I move the following financial resolutions:

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I had to explain the matters. I am only being helpful.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I say to Deputy Carey, fair is fair. We have to move on.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: If we were to go the carbon tax route that would increase green diesel, home heating oil, etc. Under the programme, carbon tax increases are due in 2012 and 2014 and for that reason the excise duty was brought in as a route that would avoid increasing the price of other fuels. Advocating further increases on other fuels would not be a very sensible way to go and that is why we are not...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Government tax is separate. This is about increasing numbers. We must find a public-private arrangement that will help taxpayers generally by bringing more tourists to the country, perhaps even sending them down to parts of the county from where the Deputy comes. If we are to do that we must provide some incentivisation. The European Union is opposed to different rates or amounts...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy used to tax people after the first €7,500, after the first €100.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: What does the Deputy propose?

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: We will spend €20 billion on social welfare next year.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy said last week the economy was banjaxed.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: What is the Deputy providing for?

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy said the economy was banjaxed, an economic corpse.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy should think about that when she is making her speeches.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: Eighteen per cent.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The higher they go, the more they pay.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: Re-arrange the €2.5 billion in the Deputy's proposals.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: A total of 80% of the tax breaks were-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: No. Let us hear the Deputy's policy.