Results 601-620 of 1,052,004 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Joe Flaherty OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Emer Higgins OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Dara Calleary)
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Damien English: I welcome the changes to the USC and the tax bands. Contrary to the opinion that the higher rate of tax kicks in too late for some, we have to recognise, as Deputy Ó Cuív mentioned, that we are in a constant competition for talent and if our taxes on jobs are too high, we will lose jobs. I have listened to debates here inside out and upside since 2011 on the tax policy of the...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am the sponsor of amendment No. 3, which seeks a report on abolishing USC on the first €45,000 of the income of all workers. I made the point earlier on we are going into a general election and if I have the honour of going into government, that is exactly what I would do within the first two years as Minister for Finance. There would be no USC paid by average workers in this State...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Mattie McGrath: We can spend hours talking about this. USC, as I said at the outset, is a disingenuous, heinous and cruel tax that was brought in as a temporary arrangement after the crash. The coalition Government promised to abolish it. The Minister might shake his head and say that Fianna Fáil did not but they are one and the same now - totally hybrid. The Green Party members are hanging around...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Listening to Deputy Mattie McGrath most recently and earlier this evening, he failed to acknowledge that this is a much more fragmented Dáil. There are many political parties and each political party will contest the election on its own platform. This outgoing Government is a government of three very distinct and unique...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: No we did not, as we point out every single time.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: What do you know? Sure you do not know whether your own son, baby is a boy or a girl.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Fuck off.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, no, please now. Let us have none of that.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Asshole.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: You are telling us here then-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: You are a fucking asshole.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please, we are not getting into that.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Well, it is the truth. He told it loud. I did not make it up; he told it himself.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul Murphy: Asshole.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: That remark should be withdrawn.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: You are a disgrace.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: That should be withdrawn. There should be an apology to Deputy Murphy and his family.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Gerald Nash: It should. This nonsense is tolerated far too much. It is personalised and it is insulting.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should withdraw the remark about Deputy Murphy's family, please. It was personal and inappropriate.