Results 121-140 of 3,523 for speaker:Lucinda Creighton

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (14 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 733. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of all bilateral meetings held between the Minister for State (details supplied) and any other person or group during a recent trip to the Mediterranean to visit the LE Eithne undertaken by the Minister of State, including the identity of all such groups or persons, and the purpose of each meeting; if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Industry in Ireland: Discussion (7 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I welcome the representatives from the Irish Bookmakers Association and Horse Sport Ireland. I am particularly pleased to welcome them because my father was a bookmaker for about 40 years. He had a small retail office and I worked with him at greyhound tracks and at pony racing around the country. It is an issue close to my heart. I have been involved in showjumping since I was four years...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the sale of a residential property (details supplied) by the National Asset Management Agency to an off-shore registered British Virgin Islands company, which is believed to be a front for Ali Ben Bongo Odinba, President of Gabon, for £25 million sterling in cash; his views that transactions to such persons may cause reputational...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the sale of a residential property (details supplied) for £25 million sterling to an off-shore registered British Virgin Islands company, which is believed to be a front for the President of Gabon, if a protocol exists within his Department governing large cash sales by the National Asset Management Agency to persons being investigated by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols in place within his Department and the National Asset Management Agency to identify the source and identity the funds which are used to pay for assets sold by debtors of the agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26827/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if, as a matter of policy, the National Asset Management Agency informs his Department of large cash sales to shell and foreign trading companies; if not, if such a policy should be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26828/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if an ethical framework exists within his Department and the National Asset Management Agency to ensure that assets are not sold to certain categories of persons or bodies corporate, where said persons or bodies corporate are of ill-repute, suspected to be involved in criminal activities such as money-laundering or suspected to be involved in corruption; if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of any transactions involving the National Asset Management Agency and persons or bodies corporate of ill-repute, suspected to be involved in criminal activities such as money-laundering or suspected to be involved in corruption; if he will provide details of any such transactions; if he has enquired with the agency regarding any such...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (2 Jul 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of his supervisory role over the National Asset Management Agency, if he will consider that any failure by himself or his Department to be fully aware of large cash sales by the agency to persons being investigated for criminal acts would represent a breach of his fiduciary duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26831/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Seanad Reform (30 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 150. To ask the Taoiseach if he has considered the report of the working group on Seanad reform 2015 which was published by his Department on 13 April 2015; the steps he will take to implement its findings and recommendations; if any legislation to reform Seanad Éireann is planned during the lifetime of the current Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Topical Issues: Tax Code (25 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. Since 2009, the applicable rate of taxation on inheritance has increased from 20% to 33%, while the threshold above which this rate has applied has dropped from €542,544 to €225,000. Although reductions in the threshold were understandable in the climate of falling asset prices and falling property prices which followed the...

Topical Issues: Tax Code (25 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that he ran out of time, as did I. The threshold must be substantially raised in order to end discrimination against urban dwellers, particularly Dublin dwellers. The rate of 33% is astronomically high. Although the average across the OECD is 7.7%, our Government, probably for ideological reasons, believes a 33% rate is acceptable. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the precise actions being carried out to underpin a return to sustainable medium-term economic growth. [24383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he might expect a review of the public procurement contract process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action taken in response to the contents of a report dated 31 March 2014 by a group of persons (details supplied) entitled Property and Accountability, which is available on the website of his Department, and which concerns the problem of accountability within the Office of Public Works; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the contents of a report dated 31 March 2014 by a group of persons (details supplied) entitled Property and Accountability which is available on the website of his Department, if he is satisfied that his Department is adequately resourced to keep track of the annual budget it delivers to the Office of Public Works; if he is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the contents of a report dated 31 March 2014 by a group of persons (details supplied) entitled Property and Accountability which is available on the website of his Department, his plans to provide for sanctions to be imposable against the Commissioners of Public Works in response to incidents of incompetence,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the contents of a report dated 31 March 2014 by a group of persons (details supplied) entitled Property and Accountability which is available on the website of his Department, if he has implemented, or plans to implement, an increase in the degree to which professional services and advice are sought in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the contents of a report dated 31 March 2014 by a group of persons (details supplied) entitled Property and Accountability which is available on the website of his Department, his plans to split the Office of Public Works from his Department, and place it on a semi-State footing; his plans to provide the Comptroller and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards (18 Jun 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: 114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has informed himself of best international practice regarding the growing of food crops in the region of waste incinerators; if he will offer advice to commercial and domestic growers of food, in particular to growers of soft fruit and leafy vegetables in such regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24393/15]