Results 761-780 of 1,086,632 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Gino Kenny OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Joe Flaherty OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Richard Bruton6 OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Mairead Farrell OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan)

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I have never seen a Finance Bill in the history of the State that seeks to buy the votes of citizens so brazenly. It is incredible. Even the one-off payments are designed to happen just before and after the election. This is not the Government’s money it is using to buy votes, but the citizens’, which it is leveraging to put itself back into government. Fine Gael has been in...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: Four years.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been eight years. Fianna Fáil was in a confidence and supply arrangement with the then Government, which meant the latter only existed because of Fianna Fáil’s support. It is like this Government is trying to hypnotise the people of Ireland with shiny coins to make them forget what has happened over the past ten years. That is wrong. The Finance Bill should have...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. First, I will speak about a situation that is pertinent to what we are talking about and has arisen in my town, Tuam. The Pieta service has operated there for the past ten years in a purpose built unit, but due to a lack of funding it is now pulling out of its facility that was purpose built with the sweat and tears of local people. The...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is another year, another budget, and another finance Bill, and we have a continuity of unfairness. We have not had the levelling-out with the huge resources we have with regard to those who have and those who do not. This is the Government's final budget. We are talking about the same two-tier income tax package we have come to expect. The cost-of-living crisis is obviously not over...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy might try tabling an amendment to the Bill to address those interesting matters.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: That is what parliamentary questions are for.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: They would have to go through six months or more. He would be happy enough if he could do the test now but he said there was a possibility of a digicard with the New Zealand licence, and even if there was, there is the timeline anomaly with regard to it. However, there is an overall solution that needs to be implemented, such as a bilateral agreement. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Ó Murchú. He is a man of great versatility. Deputy Boyd Barrett is next.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a remarkable achievement by the Government that it has a budget surplus of, I think, €25 billion. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong. I think it is €25 billion or in that region. It has a windfall of €13 billion plus in Apple tax money that it did not want because it would have preferred that Apple, a staggeringly wealthy and profitable company,...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome the opportunity to again discuss budget measures. I will concentrate, in particular, on tax measures contained in budget 2025 that, overall, are bad for the public and bad for the State. Budget 2025 can only be characterised as a naked attempt to buy the election. As I said on budget day, it has all the hallmarks of a Bertie budget. The Government's overriding...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Nash. For another Louth perspective, I call Deputy Fergus O'Dowd.

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I call on all the people who have any knowledge of the disappearance and murder of that young boy in Drogheda to co-operate fully with the Garda. It is very important. What we have been told today is shocking and traumatic and everybody who can help should. I welcome this budget. There are many important things in it, which I welcome. In particular, I will talk about older people....

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I do not often find myself agreeing with Deputy O'Dowd but I certainly agree with him on much of what he said there. There is lots more to do. This Finance Bill gives effect to the budget. I think it is a budget of missed opportunities. It was introduced earlier this month. It is a budget and Finance Bill without a sense of national purpose. I have heard that said a lot since. I will...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: This legislation gives effect to many of the proposals announced in the budget just over two weeks ago. As we know, this is the final Finance Bill of the Government's term. Make no mistake, this is an election budget and this is an election Finance Bill. I described budget 2025 as "all gravy". Now the gravy has dried up and it is revealed, as I said on budget day, that once that happened,...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. Táimid anseo inniu le díospóireacht a dhéanamh ar an mBille Airgeadais 2024 agus ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an oifig agus leis an bhfoireann go léir bhí ag obair ar an mBille seo. Is post deacair agus teicniúil é chun é a chur i bhfeidhm. Tá sé thar a...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Jack Chambers: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." We are here to begin our consideration of the Finance Bill, which will give the necessary legal basis to the decisions announced in the budget and make a number of other necessary updates to tax legislation. I will highlight some of the key measures contained in the Bill, but first it is useful to look at the context in which it is set....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. Improving access to home support is a priority for me and the Government. The overall budget for home support in 2025 will be approximately €838 million, €122 million more than was secured in budget 2024. I thank the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, for his support in that regard. I am disappointed to hear that the waiting list in the CHO 4...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (Section 11) Order 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)