Results 281-300 of 1,056,903 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Shane Cassells OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Seán Canney OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív04 OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan) in 'Committee meetings'
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Basically, we are spending a lot of money but we are not spending it in the right places. If we were to go into a budget and again give tax reliefs, such as on inheritance tax, rather than targeting, that would be the wrong thing to do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I have a question for the Central Bank that I need to ask. I apologise, I may get back in again, but I have to speak in the Dáil. I need to ask the Central Bank about its decision to renew the agreement to facilitate the sale of Israeli sovereign bonds, and how that reconciles with ISIF, which said it would divest from six Israeli companies active in the occupied territories. It is a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is that a legal requirement in domestic law or in European law?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that, but I am sure that Dr. Kelly understands that people are absolutely horrified that our own Central Bank would facilitate the sale of war bonds when there is a genocide and more than 40,000 people have been slaughtered in the past months. It is appalling, but it is something we will take up with the Governor of the Central Bank when he comes in to the finance committee. I...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I think my time is up now.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I listened with interest to the contributions of the witnesses. I thank them for attending. I come from a construction background. I am very frustrated by the lack of new ideas as to how we should get the private housing market, which is dysfunctional, working. I listened with interest to the proposal that we should not spend any of this surplus money we have and that we should be bank...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I believe the witnesses, as independent observers and experts, can look at how we are doing our business, the processes we are using, what that is costing and how we can save money by doing things differently. I go back to the Dublin Port tunnel. It is the example I will give. There was talk at the time that it was not high enough to take trucks, it was leaking and it was going to fall in...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I am not asking Professor McMahon to do so. If one takes a number of projects that have never gone anyplace, one will see how much is being spent on them and how many millions of euro have we wasted.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I thank Professor McMahon.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I agree that we need checks and balances but I believe we have gone from correcting what was wrong to overcorrection. Now we end up at a stage where we have probably a worse situation and we are using a lot of resources in it which should be better employed and still have checks and balances. If one takes housing, for example, one should devolve the authority to the local authority to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I thank the Ministers. We are talking about all the money we have. It is dangerous times because it is about how we can spend it wisely rather than just throwing it around the place. I said it last year and I agree with the fact that we need to be putting some of this money into a future fund and a climate fund. We also have an opportunity to do something with some of this money to...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Seán Canney: I also asked about transport.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: On the topic of trains, the all-island rail review and the western rail corridor, we have the opportunity to do what needs to be done there. You only have to look at the map to see the absolute lack of rail services from that area up to Sligo and Donegal, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, will know this. There is an opportunity now and there is no excuse whatsoever not to do it. Cork...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it much in excess of €6 billion?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: But the Minister knows what it is now.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is okay but it will be in excess of that, so obviously there is an improved revenue forecast for 2025. We will see that on budget day.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: When does the Minister expect the Apple tax to come in and how does he expect it to come in?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We could even have another Government providing that information. Imagine that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It will be up to the people. We had some good presentations before the Minister came in. One of them was from NERI. Its representatives said in their statement, which really struck me, that we have an economy of winners and losers. Net household wealth is at record levels on one hand while material deprivation is rising on the other. Will the Minister speak to that. Are they right?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: If we were to take out the one-off payments, they would not be progressive, would they? These are the measurements I have seen. It is adding in the windfall that-----