Results 481-500 of 1,038,449 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh)
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: So there has to be an outcome. Sometimes people can bring liquidation applications which ultimately do not succeed. A creditor can and they may not succeed. It will ultimately depend on an order from the court that it is wound up. Is there an extraterritorial effect? It is imposing an EU directive. If I am a holidaymaker in Spain and the insurance company I am insured with in Spain...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: The MIBI will be the compensation body.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: Up to now, it just deals with situations where somebody is injured as a result of an uninsured driver, whereas now it will also deal with somebody who has been injured by a driver whose insurance company has become insolvent.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: It makes sense. When is it proposed to introduce the legislation into the Oireachtas, or is it in at present?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: There may be a necessity, and there is a provision under the Bill for the Minister of State or whoever the relevant Minister is, to introduce regulations to give effect to in more detail. I think that is correct.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minster of State and the Chairman.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. I have just a few questions to clarify a number of matters. The Minister of State highlighted the potential of the OECD tax agreement in respect of our current double taxation agreement with Jersey. Can that be used for aggressive tax planning? How are we measuring and assessing that?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I will ask them individually, if that is all right. One may lead to another.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am asking how we are measuring how the tax agreement is being used. What are the outcomes of the agreement? Is it being used for aggressive tax planning? Is there any way of measuring it? Are we measuring it in terms of the outcome? I will ask a few more questions-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to get a better understanding of this myself. It was recently stated in the official statement from the Jersey Government that "most companies in Jersey will be outside the scope of the OECD two-pillar solution and should therefore see no change in their corporation tax". Is that right? Will the Minister of State outline his understanding of the zero-ten corporate rate applied...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: How will it work for people living in Ireland but who are tax resident in Jersey? How will that work for individuals? They are paying their tax in Jersey because it is the lower rate but are resident here.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Can they live here and pay the Jersey tax rate?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Then somebody could not be resident here but using Jersey as a place for their-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I know from living in London that many people had their accounts in Jersey and that cheques from there were being used.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: What the Minister of State is really saying is that there is no possibility of people using the agreement with Jersey as a tax avoidance measure or an aggressive tax planning strategy.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Jersey) Order 2024 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Sultanate of Oman) Order 2024: Motion (3 Jul 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: All right. Those were all the questions I had.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: I am pleased that Deputy Smith, the Cathaoirleach Gníómhach and others met the delegation from the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday. I had the opportunity to meet President Zelenskyy in Brussels last week and, two weeks previously, at the peace summit for Ukraine in Switzerland. I have also had the opportunity to speak to him by telephone twice since becoming Taoiseach. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: They are not really socialist governments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Simon Harris: The Spanish Prime Minister is clearly a socialist.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)
Paul Murphy: He is a socialist in name only.