Results 1-8 of 8 for construction industry council speaker:Martin Mansergh

Seanad: National Monuments (13 May 2010)

Martin Mansergh: ...we have reduced personnel resources because of staff embargoes, not merely to maintain but to extend opening times at most of our sites. This is because of their key importance for the tourism industry. Last year, a major review was conducted of our visitor services in the light of budgetary considerations with a view to realising budgetary efficiencies to secure this objective. Cost...

Seanad: Interim Report on Flooding on River Shannon, November 2000: Statements (4 Dec 2009)

Martin Mansergh: I thank all Senators who contributed to what was a most constructive and positive debate. I noted at least a couple of dozen points that were made and I will try to respond to them briefly. Senator McFadden inquired about the request for assistance from Europe. That was addressed in some detail by the Minister for Finance in the Dáil yesterday. He attended an ECOFIN meeting and he...

Seanad: Forthcoming Budget: Statements (26 Mar 2009)

Martin Mansergh: ...this week that whereas our prices are falling, the British inflation rate is rising sharply, which obviously reflects exchange rate movements. On the domestic side, the downturn in the residential construction sector has spread to the rest of the economy, impacting upon the labour market and public finances and weighing upon consumer and business confidence. Due to this unprecedented...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Martin Mansergh: ...services where a large gap has opened up between income and expenditure as a consequence of the fall in growth of 1.5 % of gross domestic product in 2008, reflecting the sharp decline in housing construction, weakened consumer activity and rising unemployment. For the first time in more than 20 years, even after budget measures, borrowing will amount to more than €12 billion, which is...

Seanad: Tax Code: Motion (29 Nov 2006)

Martin Mansergh: It cites an estimated cost of approximately €300 million; numbers benefiting "not available". That is very eloquent because if one were to abolish the duty on first homes the Construction Industry Federation might well be the sole and entire beneficiary, and that might be why numbers are not available. The motion proposes a simplistic solution but one must consider its effect and who will...

Seanad: Partnership Agreement with the Farming Pillar: Statements (16 Nov 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ...clout, my answer to which is an emphatic "Yes". Farmers have lobbying organisations that are second to none, a fact brought home to me when I was a member of the delegation to the European Council in Berlin in 1999. Only one organisation was present in force, namely, the Irish Farmers' Association. It is not entirely coincidental that the issue on which the Taoiseach battled through the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: ...revenue. The Minister, in his summary of the Bill, stressed a number of the key features such as the removal of those on the minimum wage from the tax net, the exclusion of workers on the average industrial wage from the higher tax rate and restrictions on high income tax payers. His budgets and Finance Bills have had a corrective, egalitarian tone. For example, the Green Party decision at...

Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2004: Second Stage. (23 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: ...the lowest tax wedge in the European Union and that is particularly family friendly. I was particularly struck by the Minister's statistic that the amount of income tax paid by those on the average industrial wage is 6% today compared to 14% in 1997. The Opposition should recognise the general advance and its equity. Part of that was due to the tax credit revolution during the last period...