Results 301-320 of 1,035,252 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Michael McDowell OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill OR speaker:Denise Mitchell) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Come on. The Government is reducing tax for workers. We are reducing income tax for workers and we reduced the universal social charge last year. The focus has been on reducing income tax to give people more disposable income and enable them to spend at their discretion. That has been the focus of the Government over the last four years. We have also reduced the cost of services in terms...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: There are higher taxes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy seems to want us not to reduce the tax for workers but, rather, reduce it elsewhere. I do not know whether he believes we should have a €2 billion tax package or a €2.5 billion tax package. He needs to specify what his priorities are.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I want a reward for somebody who works.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Our priority is to reduce taxes for workers to enable workers to have more disposable income to spend on services at their discretion and on what their families want to prioritise.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: On the same issue, workers and families are continuing to struggle under the cost of living crisis. In three weeks time, the Government plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel for those same families. This is the last day that we have to stop the plan for price increases on petrol and diesel. Petrol and diesel prices are way higher than they were just a few years ago and, as has...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: In its alternative budget, Sinn Féin proposed that the excise reduction that happened should be restored in one go on 1 April of this year, unlike the Government’s step-by-step restoration. Under its plan, motorists would have seen a full 8% increase for petrol and a 6% increase for diesel on 1 April last. Once again, Sinn Féin proposes one thing in its budget proposals and...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We said it needed to be kept under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what you said in your budget. You would have done it all at once, back in April, with an 8% increase on petrol and a 6% increase on diesel. The Government took a different view. We wanted to try to reduce the pressures on the public, unlike the Sinn Féin proposal, and we will keep it under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You cannot keep it under review because this is the last day. You cannot keep it under review unless you recall the Dáil.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: For clarification, is the Tánaiste suggesting a recall of the Dáil in the next three weeks because today is the last day that they can stop their price hikes?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: You have been found out, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: You might clarify your own policy.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We have been very clear. We said we would keep it under review. Now is not the time to be jacking up prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: That is not what you said six months ago.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Doherty should resume his seat. This is not on. I call Deputy Duncan Smith of Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Duncan Smith: Beaumont Hospital is 37 years old. Its catchment area has more than trebled since it opened yet many of the facilities remain the same. While we can talk about a number of issues in regard to Beaumont, I want to focus on capacity and space. I had the privilege of being shown around the hospital by clinicians recently. There are solutions to provide space in accident and emergency, resus...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is correct that Beaumont is one of the older national hospitals, and I think Cork University Hospital was a replication of it. I think the then Minister, Charles Haughey, decided he did not want any more new designers and he said they should just bring the plan from Beaumont to Cork, and we got a hospital much faster. They are old hospitals and they have been subject to a lot of...