Results 101-104 of 104 for 5 million speaker:Shane Ross
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)
Shane Ross: ...the Government. However, this option is short-sighted and immoral. It is also lazy. It is very easy to look at all these pension pots and say, there is that amount of money, we will get â¬480 million if we do it that way. No doubt it will. The figure of 0.6% seems to come up in several contexts at present. Perhaps the Government has an obsession with it. However, there is one...
- Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)
Shane Ross: ...delve because it is late and the allotted time has been extended. However, it is extraordinary to see such newspaper headlines as appeared today to the effect that the case may cost the family â¬5 million. How can they possibly charge these fees to those who cannot afford them?
- Seanad: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Second Stage. (16 Jun 2004)
Shane Ross: ...the DIRT tax case was AIB although the Bank of Ireland was also an offender. What happened to them in that regard was that they willingly and happily paid up vast sums of money â AIB paid â¬90 million while Bank of Ireland paid â¬30 million â the most painless penalties ever imposed. If the Minister or I were to commit parking offences in a company car and the company continuously...
- Seanad: FÁS Community Employment Schemes: Motion. (28 Jan 2004)
Shane Ross: ...objective of reducing long-term unemployment. A peculiar feature of FÃS is, as Senator Hanafin pointed out, that whereas long-term unemployment has been reduced over a short period of years from 5% to 1.5%, the size of FÃS and the numbers employed by it have increased. It is now an empire. It produces good for many small communities and nobody can quarrel with that. It also does...