Results 561-580 of 1,080,352 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Michael Moynihan OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Marc MacSharry) in 'Committee meetings'
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: At present, when people look at the tax take out of their earnings they hurt very badly. When they go to the petrol pumps they hurt very badly because it is all tax, tax and more tax. As far as I can see, the Government is doing everything it can to penalise workers, to stop enterprise and to close down businesses. We asked - we actually begged - on behalf of people involved in business,...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I have submitted many amendments to the Bill. I am wondering why I went through this 274-page document in detail given that the guillotine is looming. I regret that. The Bill should never have been brought out of committee. We should have dealt with the Bill in committee. We have always facilitated the Government in respect of the passage of the legislation. Even when the Government of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Michael Collins: I will try to be brief. I will only speak for two to three minutes to give everybody else a chance. It is unfortunate that there is a guillotine here and we will not get an opportunity to speak on so many issues relating to the budget that are of great importance to the people of our country. It is a terrible situation that we have been forced into. There has been quite a lot of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae is next. There are just 26 minutes left for the debate.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: In relation to spending money, taxes and USC, we have said previously that it is very important that people realise that when their money is being spent, it is being wasted. When the Government talks about housing - and it surely has done a lot of talking about housing - there is one avenue that it has not explored. We all know that there are so many vacant houses around the country, right...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Canney: First, I want to speak to the issue of the universal social charge. As many TDs have said, this was a temporary measure that was brought in at a time there was a call on people who were working to try to save this country. We have gone on too long taking this money and need to put a stop to this unworkable charge on people's earnings. It does not bear any resemblance to fairness any more....
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I point out to Members that there are six speakers left in just 32 minutes.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am just pointing it out generally. There are possibly seven speakers.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Government had not imposed a guillotine, we would not be in this mess.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I appeal to Members. There are six, possibly seven, speakers. I will read out the names so we know who they are. The list of names as I have it is Deputies Michael Collins, Danny Healy-Rae, Canney, Doherty, Michael Healy-Rae and English.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy might let, with the time, some of the other people here speak.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: We have not had sufficient-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If he could; if he would not mind.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I said to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Dúirt sé-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: People who in all my years in the Dáil have not appeared at a finance committee hearing at all or the consideration of a Finance Bill.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is not listening. Dúirt sé "mar fhocal scoir". Bhí sé díreach chun chríochnú.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Mar fhocal scoir. I did. I said the major bondholders went off scot-free, although they had insurance bonds, so the Irish people were doubly robbed by the bailout and the USC the Government promised it would get rid of.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is what happens when a Finance Bill is guillotined. We end up with a shambolic Committee Stage where there is no actual scrutiny of the Bill and everyone is forced to try to shoehorn in any points they want to make into the first grouping of amendments. That is what has happened today. People have no choice at this stage. There is very little time left. They want to raise issues and...