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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice, Defence And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_defence_and_equality/2015-11-04/4/
4 Nov 2015 - IPRT very much welcomes the invitation of the committee to address it on the general scheme of the Bill...on bail, ensuring appearance at court and reducing the number of remands to custody to the essential minimum...particularly given the length of time we are talking about currently where trials are being listed in 2017...group on penal policy and my organisation have all come to the view that the impact of presumptive minimum...The strategic review group recommended that no further mandatory sentences or presumptive minimum sentences
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-03-07/27/
7 Mar 2006 - If a family has a significant number of children but the parents work at or close to the minimum wage...The Minister boasts that a certain percentage of taxpayers do not pay income tax because their income...In Dublin, most local authorities are trying to work towards a flat charge and a pay-per-lift charge....The old rating system had many elements which were extremely unfair nonetheless....We have a system which pays lip-service to this.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1933-05-23/21/
23 May 1933 - in these countries is that the main cause of the corruption to which I refer is the relatively low wages...I want to suggest very seriously to the Minister that it is highly essential that a minimum standard...grave injustice done to the inspector who is cut in salary without any chance of getting the basic rate...suggestions by which the Minister might get almost as much revenue as he will be enabled to get under this sub-section...when this Bill passes through the House.
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Debate: Joint Committee On The Environment, Transport, Culture And The Gaeltacht
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_the_environment_transport_culture_and_the_gaeltacht/2011-11-22/3/
22 Nov 2011 - We understand that Government has plans to establish Irish water as the national water authority....Consumers can approach this body if they have queries relating to their bills....If consumers have difficulties paying their bills, how will the arrears be managed?...If consumers must pay for their water supply, they must not pay for the costs associated with an inefficient...efficient before it is rolled out, with infrastructure investment to reduce water loss from leakage to a minimum
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1944-03-21/25/
21 Mar 1944 - The Government accepted the position that it was responsible for imposing by law minimum conditions of...employment in respect of all those who work for wages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-07-10/40/
10 Jul 2019 - apply when a provider accepts moneys from or on behalf of a learner in respect of a programme with a minimum...advised that approximately 25% of providers in this category deliver programmes up to level 3 on the national...a provider to pay the annual charge in instalments where necessary and when agreed with the authority...learner protection fund and the associated annual charge would be subject to periodic reviews at a minimum...When learners pay €2,000, I feel strongly that there should be an assurance for them that their moneys
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-02-02/6/
2 Feb 2006 - entertainment rather than in the realm of public discourse, yet it managed to grab the attention of the nation...We failed to make the point that wages in Ireland have galloped ahead of price increases over the past...The fact that wage increases are ahead of price inflation proves this....We need to specify in the Bill bans on certain activities for which suppliers are called on to pay....I support the Bill.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Health
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2017-10-25/3/
25 Oct 2017 - We have brought it through the national structures....On the other side, and in regard to the Bill we are talking about today, the vast majority of staff will...want Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Temple Street University Children's Hospital and the National...We are assuring staff they will have no less favourable pay and conditions.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-12-08/133/
8 Dec 2004 - This Bill will make certain technical amendments to the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and will remove doubts...Other relevant legislative initiatives are planned in the context of the Criminal Justice Bill 2004....The first of these is provided for in Part 3 of the Bill....participate in or contribute to the activities of a criminal organisation, strengthen existing provisions for minimum...The national drugs strategy sets out a framework for action for the period 2001-08.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-12-12/9/
12 Dec 2007 - Deputy Terence Flanagan I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Social Welfare Bill....Individuals and families in receipt of rent supplement are disadvantaged because they cannot pay their...Landlords are more likely to accept tenants who can pay such moneys in advance, which means that those...the market rent per month for a one-bed apartment in Dublin 1 and Dublin 2 is €1,122, or 81% of the minimum...wage and 45% of the average industrial wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-10-07/3/
7 Oct 2011 - Deputy Richard Bruton ——and brought down wages across every sector....It cut the minimum wage and also knew in 2008 about the frailty of the legislation....Not only will we be reducing the number of JLCs, but we will also be simplifying the number of rates...There are around 300 rates open to scrutiny. We will be dealing with issues in a different way....I do not think it was included in the old Fianna Fáil Bill and it is not in this Bill, but the Fianna
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Debate: Joint Committee On Enterprise And Small Business
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_enterprise_and_small_business/2005-11-17/2/
17 Nov 2005 - I do not subscribe to the notion that our national Parliament has anything but a positive view of trade...I refer to the undermining of the rights of workers by EU citizens who earn the minimum wage and are...paid flat rates for overtime with no legal basis to prevent that....We need to make it clear that workers from within the Union are welcome in our economy at Irish rates
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-03-23/17/
23 Mar 2011 - These include, among others, a commitment to reverse the cut in the minimum wage, reduce the lower rate...of VAT, halve the lower rate of PRSI, abolish the air travel tax conditional on the airlines fulfilling...credibility, to adhere to the aggregate fiscal adjustment for the combined period 2011-12, as set out in the national
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-05-23/12/
23 May 2018 - The Taoiseach recently turned the sod on a new development with 120 beds at the National Rehabilitation...Increased bed capacity at the National Rehabilitation Hospital is essential to support implementation...of key Government policies, including the national neuro-rehabilitation strategy and the national trauma...Rehabilitation Medicine standards for specialist rehabilitation which are applied in Ireland indicate that a minimum...In November 2017, 257 patients were on waiting lists for the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-11-04/17/
4 Nov 2020 - This Bill and the budget fail in these key areas....From what we are hearing, the jobs are not paying well. Their pay and conditions are bad....Vincent de Paul commissioned a study which shows that a single adult needs a minimum of €249 a week to...We are heading towards a 50% jobless rate for workers under 25 years of age....The National Youth Council estimates that a young person living alone in an urban area, taking rent into
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Debate: Joint Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2003-04-02/4/
2 Apr 2003 - On the timing of the legislation, it is unfortunately true that the Bill was tabled two years ago and...security industry will remain subject to health and safety legislation, to employment law and to the minimum...wage legislation....As for pay and conditions, a security industry joint labour committee has been already established and...to be observed in the provision of security services, for instance, the kinds of standards that the National
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-05-01/13/
1 May 1979 - wage agreements negotiated....their shopping bills after taxation....There will be substantial wage increases this year. That is accepted by everybody....If that were done there might be a general reduction in the rate of taxation....Being aware of the rate of pay in most of the countries with which we complete, and being able to compare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-03-30/272/
30 Mar 2004 - The National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, has published a voluntary standards specification,...A European standard for external intruder alarms, which will replace all national standards, will incorporate...The new limits will be 90 seconds minimum and 15 minutes maximum....In addition, the Private Security Services Bill sponsored by my colleague, the Minister for Justice,...The Bill provides for a private security authority to license, control and supervise all alarm installers
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-07-05/35/
5 Jul 2017 - this statutory authority must be in place before the Minister signs the guarantees on 31 July, the Bill...We will never have to pay out that sort of amount. That is the absolute maximum....The people in the biggest rugby following nation in the world were not travelling to the UK because they
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1973-07-12/8/
12 Jul 1973 - The big difference between our Bill and the Bill of the previous administration is precisely in this...reading of the situation the employer is the person who makes the final decision in relation to any pay...I assure the Deputy and others that the penalties arising from breaches of the national agreement under...Under section 9 the authorised officer would have the power to look at wage and salary records....Officers of the Department of Labour may require the production of wage sheets and so on.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-27/32/
27 Nov 2018 - Much has been said about people reading the Bill before the vote....In June 2017, the British Government announced it would fund abortions for women resident in Northern...The official report on abortion statistics for England and Wales in 2017 noted an increase in the number...The volume in the third and fourth quarters of 2017 increased by 46% and 62%, respectively....We travelled to the United Nations in an effort to get that horrible terminology disused and we had great
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-27/33/
27 Nov 2018 - Much has been said about people reading the Bill before the vote....In June 2017, the British Government announced it would fund abortions for women resident in Northern...The official report on abortion statistics for England and Wales in 2017 noted an increase in the number...The volume in the third and fourth quarters of 2017 increased by 46% and 62%, respectively....We travelled to the United Nations in an effort to get that horrible terminology disused and we had great
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-05-26/3/
26 May 1977 - We managed to raise our national output very creditably, to cut the rate of inflation substantially and...Section 10 removes the rateable valuation threshold of £50 which, since 1974, applied to landowners who...A farmer who has a rateable valuation of £75 will pay only 1/10th of his full liability, with £76 RV...Deductions will be allowed from notional income in respect of rates on land and wages paid to employees...The minimum targets which have been set for 1977—a 5 per cent increase in volume of sales and a 3 per
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-06-27/15/
27 Jun 1985 - Those at work are paying exceptionally high rates of tax to which I will be referring....The farming community have a special obligation and responsibility to the nation....A land tax is the very minimum that this House should be entitled to impose on the farming community...If you allow for farm inputs, this would still leave him with a net income well in excess of the national...pay water rates are being brought to court.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-03-05/6/
5 Mar 1997 - homed in sufficiently on this, I must admit that the schemes being operated by FÁS are excellent and remove...The relevant rate of pay is approximately £173 less £5 for some social contribution, leaving a take-home...Yet I note that the minimum income which would render them eligible for the family income supplement...If the husband was engaged in some type of private employment — that level of wage being available in...what is considered to be a minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-01-12/5/
12 Jan 2011 - the Budget Statement, the policies set out in the joint programme of assistance closely reflect our national...2011, the Government will consider an appropriate adjustment, including in the overall Public Service wage...That review will be based on the same quarterly data on the public service wage bill and the number of...bill....In that regard the main commitments the Government gave under the agreement, namely those on pay rates
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2004-12-15/14/
15 Dec 2004 - Those on the minimum wage will be taken out of the income tax net entirely in 2005....while the same couple can earn up to €49,200 and receive the minimum rate of carer's allowance, free...the social welfare commitments contained in the programme for Government, Sustaining Progress and the national...The Bill provides for an increase of €12 per week in the personal pension rates, increasing the rate...The social welfare increases included in this Bill will become payable from the first pay day in January
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1978-06-29/5/
29 Jun 1978 - accede to requests for additional reliefs or allowances under different heads, in this year at any rate...as the amount of the allowances, taken in conjunction with projected increases in incomes under the national...pay agreement, would result in a fairly substantial increase in real incomes for workers generally....part of the burden that would otherwise fall on employers in the sense that they would have had to pay...higher wage increases.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1982-03-23/16/
23 Mar 1982 - Naturally I welcome the increases and my party welcome the increases which are the purpose of the Bill...To the extent that the Bill provides real and significant increases for social welfare recipients of...It is very much in contrast with the commitment to a national plan going in a specific direction which...be adequate for the impact on prices, employment or national growth and the future stability of the...That led to the minimum of delay and hardship for the beneficiaries concerned.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-11/32/
11 Oct 2005 - and replace them with cheap east European labour is an insult to Irish taxpayers who must foot the bill...The slave rate of €3.60 per hour proposed for east European workers is not only well below the average...industrial wage but it is little more than half the Irish minimum wage....There is no guarantee that talks on a new national wage agreement to succeed Sustaining Progress will...That was the bottom level of wage payments.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1971-06-16/7/
16 Jun 1971 - for two weekly payments— at present each two years over 41 counts for three weekly payments; (iv) a minimum...general, they are designed to facilitate the more efficient administration of the Redundancy Scheme, to remove...Wages are going up all the time and higher pay will be reflected in higher benefit payments, while contributions...continue to be pegged at the existing flat rates....Towards this end the Government have set up the National Manpower Service to provide improved placement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-08/18/
8 Feb 2005 - I want a situation where there are lower tax rates but everybody pays — in other words, a flatter, more...The vast bulk of PAYE taxpayers will pay tax at the top rate....The Minister said that people earning the minimum wage will be lifted out of the tax net....wage....less than the minimum rate of 20%, having taken into account credits and personal allowances.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-04-10/30/
10 Apr 2019 - Senator Fintan Warfield I have learned from the last time one of our Bills was delayed....fear I might take away from tonight is that this motion ensures rental properties which do not meet minimum...I thank Conor in my office for his support on this Bill and all the other Bills we have brought to the...Even though the Bills in question - the Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017, in the name...The Bill is sensible.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1934-03-21/3/
21 Mar 1934 - This similar institution in Italy "granted" these various cuts and wages....I do not know whether it is ever expected that the Town Planning Bill will give authority to deal with...that particular kind of anti-social action, but I hope at any rate that the League of Youth will learn...An attempt was made to remove the military character of the organisation—I take it there is the purpose...The National Volunteers were unarmed and I also know that the unarmed National Volunteers had within
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1974-12-17/48/
17 Dec 1974 - this occasion they seem to have outdone themselves in their performance in bringing disaster on the nation...We have had an increase in the price of butter by 4p a lb. due to the removal by the Government of a...subsidy which they need not have removed....but claims for very substantially higher wages....The Minister by accepting this amendment can have his Bill but at the same time the hardship which this
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-02-20/4/
20 Feb 2004 - Other countries have achieved much higher rates through family-friendly initiatives, provision of paid...The original provisions in the Bill were widely criticised, including by the national breastfeeding co-ordinator...The removal of the restrictions on the position of women whose infants are under four months old is welcome...The Bill should contain a simple entitlement to interruption of work for nursing without loss of pay....of leave to a minimum of two weeks in theory.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-02-25/3/
25 Feb 1976 - relation to the national wage agreements during the past three or four years this board has been totally...maintained that employers of agricultural workers would not be in a position to comply with the terms of the national...wage agreements....An organisation which claims to be national and representative must be seen to be doing these things,...The employer organisations and the farming organisations should welcome this Bill as removing a source
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-11-21/5/
21 Nov 1968 - the mere elected of the country sent here with the alleged authority to go into every aspect of the national...Probably we will have to initiate another demand for wages....The bill for his bus fares could easily run to 35/- or £2 out of his average weekly wage of £12 to £14...It is also announced they are going to narrow the stages and increase the minimum fares.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1964-03-11/53/
11 Mar 1964 - forerunner of the most important discussion on the financial provisions of the State in introducing this Bill...Just now we have a grand national race in progress, with every section of the community accepting the...green light that was shown by the Taoiseach when they were invited to "have a go" at the national "kitty...regarding the limitation of eight per cent which the economy could afford to bear as an increase in wages...to every organised union, to everybody in a position to demand and secure a 12 per cent increase in wages
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-02/36/
2 May 2018 - Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice I have submitted amendments to the Bill, as have Deputies Troy and Danny...It was an awful pity that the head of the RSA did not get her Bill together at the time instead of coming...The average wage for a farmer is €18,000 per year, which means that many are not able to pay €6,000 to...else who has been elected to this House to table amendments and speak on any legislation, such as the Bill...we were debating before we moved onto this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1933-07-18/7/
18 Jul 1933 - they made the county councils pay in rates, and those people who did not pay are now generously forgiven...of that debt due to the county councils going back to the county councils it is going to go into the national...Are they the kind of people that are going to build a nation?...He certainly showed by his own personal demeanour when he emphasised strongly that this is the very minimum...Peasant proprietorship, the bulwark against Communism, will be removed if the land is handed over to
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Debate: Select Committee On Transport
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_transport/2004-01-14/2/
14 Jan 2004 - schemes specifically for former employees which would require benefits to be paid out in line with national...wage agreements....Pension payments are made in accordance with the rules of the scheme which also determine the rate of...would probably result in former employees being in a somewhat better position than current employees paying
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Debate: Select Sub-Committee On Finance
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_sub-committee_on_finance/2015-11-18/2/
18 Nov 2015 - It also examines the impact of the budget on the at-risk-of-poverty rate and on work incentives, as well...as the impact of the change in the minimum wage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-24/24/
24 Feb 2005 - statement countersigned by the would be employer and employee of the main functions of the job, salary-wages...Work permits are not granted unless there is compliance with minimum wage legislation....Applications for renewals require documentary proof that the stated wages have been paid....The proposed Employment Permits Bill, which is currently at the final stages of preparation, will include...The new Bill will also give enabling powers to the Minister, particularly in regard to the question of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-02-06/12/
6 Feb 2008 - states that this section lists the yearly tax credits one now gets, that the amount of tax credit one pays...The standard rating of some tax credits could have been managed under the old system....Without a refundable tax credit system, people outside the tax net, typically those on low wages or in...Taking minimum wage earners and low paid workers out of the tax net is obviously very welcome but it...across families where the head of the household is working but simply cannot make ends meet because the wages
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-05-23/32/
23 May 2017 - Deputy Mick Wallace I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “9th May, 2017”: ", with...as a single portfolio) was appropriate in the circumstances and was commercially sound; (b) if the minimum...Asset Management Agency) Act 2017, in the vein of the Commissions of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution...In the first section in the proposed terms of reference we have included a timeline and removed the reference...Fortress was bidding on Project Eagle without the knowledge that a minimum of £76 million would be taken
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-04-07/5/
7 Apr 1976 - Apart from changes in tax rates, the main thrust of the Bill is towards the equalisation of the tax burden...In present circumstances a minimum benefit, as provided in section 23, of £300 or 15 per cent of the..., wages and depreciation exceeds 40 times the rateable valuation....Tax will be deductible from payments made to a sub-contractor by principal contractors unless the sub-contractor...new tax provisions and the need to retain funds to pay tax.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1950-04-19/5/
19 Apr 1950 - Summerfield I do not intend to say much on this Bill but I do feel that it is one we must support on...it is emphasised enough, that in most of our factories it can be demonstrated that the standard of wages...Therefore, it is an important factor in our national economy....If we want to keep our people at home, and if we want to pay them a fair standard of wages, we have to...I do not intend to make a lengthy speech on this, as I do not think this Bill calls for it, but I do
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-07-29/26/
29 Jul 2020 - There are three-to-six-month internships, at 24 hours a week and with weekly pay of €229....It amounts to less than €1.08 an hour and it is designed to drive down wages....It is no accident that it comes in the same week as the decision to not increase the minimum wage and...It is all designed to depress wages across the economy....It would invest in green jobs and bring welfare payments back up to a basic minimum of €350 a week.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1960-03-10/4/
10 Mar 1960 - It is a complete illusion to think that workers can get higher wages without somebody paying for them...facing the obligation to pay higher wages to their own workers at a time when farm prices generally...the Book of Estimates represents provision made for payments to farmers in respect of subventions to rates...bill upon the unit costs of production—our hopes for economic expansion can be entirely destroyed....rates.
