Results 321-340 of 3,555 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch in 'Dáil debates'

National Minimum Wage: Motion (Resumed) (15 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank my colleague, Deputy Penrose, for bringing this important motion before the House. The decision by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to reduce the pay packets of minimum wage workers in this country by 12% is ill conceived, is badly thought out, and is detrimental not just to the future of minimum wage workers, but of all workers in the country. It is saying something to say that...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: To bail out the banks.

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I will speak on the issue of rent relief. The Minister proposes to phase out this relief over a period of eight years. I ask him for an explanation of how this can be achieved. Does it mean that people will need to remain in singular accommodation over the next eight years or is it aimed at people who are currently in receipt of rent allowance in a multiple of locations over that period?...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: We are witnessing a deathbed conversion by the Government on the question of tax versus property reliefs and a belated admission that the latter are unsustainable. The exemption threshold for stamp duty is set at €127,000, a modest price to pay for a house even in today's deflated market. Why was consideration not given to introducing a baseline threshold of 1% on house purchases? A...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps I may be of assistance to the House. The Minister proposes that the current tenancy purchase programme, at 3% for a maximum of ten years, will now be extended to 15 years, giving a 45% reduction in the purchase price of the local authority house. Two years ago during discussion on the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill we proposed this to the Minister but he did not accept it...

Financial Resolution No. 18: Capital Acquisitions Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I would like to speak for as long as previous speakers.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: And maybe get some sleep.

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Referral to Select Committee (2 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Under the document that the Government has signed on our behalf, we must give weekly reports to our European partners and the IMF. I am sure they will be delighted to hear this morning that we will spend €8 million-----

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Referral to Select Committee (2 Dec 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: -----on a project that will result in five and a half mayors in Dublin and three separate quangos. The Labour Party gave the House an opportunity this morning to see some sense on this issue. Just before the last vote, Deputy Kennedy was actually supporting a Labour Party motion.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Hear, hear.

Foreshore Licences (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I would like to pursue another aspect of the foreshore licence issue and place it in context. Foreshore licences are granted where somebody is developing a marina, a docking bay or something else which would generate local employment and improve the general aspect and environment of a location. One of the difficulties people face relates to a specific clause in the licence. I am aware the...

Foreshore Licences (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I would like to be of assistance to the Minister. He is correct about the revocation of licences. However, the difficulty relates to funding. People go through the planning process and acquire the foreshore licence but they cannot get a letter of comfort from the Department stating that the licence will not be revoked or stating the conditions on which it could be revoked. I will take the...

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister's response was so broad-ranging it brought me into a number of different zones.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I will not. Will the Minister restate the last comment, which I found interesting, that the reduction of the minimum wage came about on the insistence of Commissioner Ollie Rehn.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: It is very relevant to people outside the House, given that employers I spoke to were not seeking it. They sought reform of the JLC.

Local Government Efficiency (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I will give the Minister a certain degree of flexibility on the matter. When he announced the Green Paper a number of years ago, the McCarthy report and the local government efficiency review group followed. Ultimately, the position remains the same and question is where the structure of local government lies. As the Minister is well aware, the structure is laid out by the terms of funding...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the review of the severe weather events which was due to be completed by 1 November 2010; when he will attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Environment, Heritage and Local Government to discuss the Committee's own report and recommendations on the severe weather events; and if he...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: I refer to the correspondence dated 27 October which was sent on the Minister's behalf to the joint committee. This correspondence stated that he was unavailable to meet the committee to discuss its report and recommendations because he was completing his report which was due on 1 November. The correspondence indicated that he expected to be in a position to respond to the committee's...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that the joint committee published its report in July, the Minister has had several months to come before it. He is putting the cart before horse in terms of its recommendations because they could inform him in completing his own review. He is following the wrong strategy by waiting until his report is completed before meeting the committee. As he has not indicated a timeline for...

Severe Weather Events (25 Nov 2010)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister's agenda included the Aarhus Convention, which has not been ratified, and the ban on corporate donations, which has not been introduced. He has not published the promised White Paper on local government. The number of infringements of EU law has increased since he became Minister.