Results 221-240 of 1,046,598 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Michael Moynihan OR speaker:Simon Coveney OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Alan Kelly) in 'Committee meetings'
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The public will have their opportunity to decide if they want a party-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do not bring up children in here today.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----with real vision, ideas, plans and commitment or the soundbites we hear from Government benches. Sinn Féin knows that the cost of raising a family does not stop when your child reaches the age of 18. We would stand up for students and parents by abolishing third level fees, starting with a reduction of €1,500 next year. Again, the Government refuses to go there. It...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Not a bit of relief.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----with the cost of living in so many ways. We called on the Government to tackle this, to deliver a fair tax package for all workers and to give workers and families a break. We said they needed their money put back into their pockets. What the Government has instead brought forward again in this budget is a two-tier tax package. It picked winners and it picked losers. Someone on...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach also knows it. That is half of all workers in the State. The tax package for half of all workers in the State will be €369. There was a fairer way to do this. In our budget proposals, Sinn Féin showed how the Government could have cut tax fairly in a way that benefits all workers, including those on low and middle incomes. That is what it should have done. We...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It is better to have our small businesses.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Ireland has one of the highest rates of low pay in the European Union. That did not happen by accident. It happened as a result of Government policy. We would support businesses' transition from lower wage employment with a PRSI rebate of €250 million targeted at the employers most impacted by increases to the minimum wage. The Minister did not say anything about gold-plated...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I did not sign the contract. Produce the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The cost has overrun by hundreds of millions. Are you trying to deny you had any involvement in that, Simon? Is that what you are trying to say?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: You just said I signed the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is that what you are trying to say, that you had no involvement in that?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ouch.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: All the while, on the Taoiseach's watch, the Bill goes up. When BAM said it would withdraw-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----Deputy Harris said "No way, keep going" and he kept writing the cheques.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Almost a million people-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It was to stop it and not build.