Results 1-16 of 16 for 5 million speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: Sinn Féin opposes this measure because of its cost. In 2010, SARP cost the taxpayer €28.1 million.If its cost continues to increase at the same rate of 55% between 2017 and 2020, it could be as much as €105 million next year. Under the scheme, an employee earning a salary of €1.1 million will be able to write off 30% of his or her income in excess of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 5: In page 33, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 27.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to one month’s rent of an individual available to all renters not already in receipt of any...

Seanad: Finance Bill (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (28 Nov 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: .... He will be pleased to hear this is a Bill I very much welcome. The Bill deals primarily, as the Minister of State said, with the two issues of tax appeal and prospectus regulation. Section 5 amends section 4 of the Finance (Tax Appeals) Act 2015, which itself established the Tax Appeals Commission to replace the Office of Appeals Commission. This is important because of the increased...

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the economy with the multiplier effect. It makes no sense whatsoever for this Government, with Fianna Fáil, to treat workers and families like this while continuing a policy that leaves the top 5% owning more than 46% and the top 1% owning more than 27% of wealth. It does not add up, and it certainly does not add up for workers and families across this State. Is it the case that it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the equivalent of one month's rent each year. It also contains measures to end the insurance rip-off, first, in terms of the levies charged currently by Government that would bring down insurance costs by 5% but also in terms of the legislation needed to address the situation within that. We would invest an additional €300 million to give people with disabilities and their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Indecon Reports on Job Clubs and Local Employment Services: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...ago and our Government took it on as being the way forward. Even the European Anti-Poverty Network at the time critically analysed it in terms of what would happen. Since then we have seen €149 million being spent on JobPath. I have a few questions for the witnesses. Have any of them seen the contract between the Department and the private companies that have - we have to name...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...going on in the House since this session started, there are some issues of which we must be mindful. The first of these is the fact that we have 10,000 people who are homeless and approximately 1 million people on waiting lists. We need to examine exactly what this budget is delivering which is only a few euro in people's pockets and even that has not been done fairly. The Government's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the withdrawal of the Versatis plasters from those who have a medical card. I am not at all satisfied that there was a proper cost-benefit analysis done in reaching that decision, that affected 25,000 people, in terms of the extra hospitalisation, medicines and anti-depressants that were required. Leaving aside the humanity of the decision, if we are looking at the impact of the decision...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move recommendation No. 4:In page 24, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “14. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on how he will monitor on an ongoing basis the effectiveness and the value for money of the Help to Buy scheme.” This recommendation concerns the help to buy scheme....

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that the one page that cost €5 million to put out?

Seanad: Budget 2018: Statements (10 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...begins to recover those who can afford to give an little in order to help raise the living standards of those who have suffered the most remain the protected species. I say this because €662 million could have been raised if we were to ask those earning more than €100,000 to pay an extra 7 cent in each euro they earn. This would only affect 3% of earners, as 97% of earners...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Leader Programmes Administration (28 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...back on and I ask him to look at this again. He will also be aware, looking at the whole programme, how much the funding has been cut. Even if we take Cork alone, the original programme was €49 million, it is down now to €13 million and in Mayo we lost out on €9 million. We need to look at the amounts of money each implementing partner has because they do not have...

Seanad: Areas of Natural Constraint: Statements (24 May 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...were created in 2013, which fed into the 62,000 jobs that had been created in that year. Perhaps the Minister will hear me out to identify the sources of income. GLAS underspent by between €60 million and €70 million. There was an underspend on the sheep scheme of around €5 million. There was another possibly €10 million to €15 million underspend in...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...services but in section 2 we have the real intent of this Bill, which is to slash taxes. We will see an example of that later with capital acquisitions tax, CAT. It is not a matter of the €335 million of fiscal space this year or even the €390 million cost on the full year of these cuts. It is the €5.6 billion we are foregoing that we could bring in by 2021 simply...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...buy scheme in the Bill even more useless and unnecessary.The cut to the USC, as outlined in section 2, features only because Fine Gael can claim it fulfilled at least part of its pre-election promise. The €330 million to be cut from the USC is the start of a process that has been exposed by the Department of Finance itself as regressive and of greatest benefit to the wealthiest....

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...detailed each and every figure on how much money we had to spend, where it would come from and what we would spend it on in the years ahead. I remind Fianna Fáil that it cost us to the tune of €64 billion. I have a 15-year-old son who will be 54 years of age before we are finished paying off the Fianna Fáil debt. That is a burden to him and all 15-year-olds in this...