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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1946-03-14/15/
14 Mar 1946 -
McGilligan We are presented in this Book of Estimates with a bill for £47,750,000....Local Government has already told the House that he is going to take power to ensure that if local authorities...mounting bill—that we are being asked to pay....Recently we had paraded in this House the standard for our main industry....Surely there should be some kind of activity, something to indicate that we have at least made England
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1965-03-02/74/
2 Mar 1965 -
There was, I regret to say, some political activity in it....The Minister says very correctly that the bill for military service pensions is falling every day....Do they feel they are up to the required standard? Are they getting the necessary training?...The great difficulty is that in a town where the baracks is situated, the local authority do not wish...another, for either the serving personnel or a member of the Forces who retires to get a house in local authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1946-05-16/20/
16 May 1946 -
Most Deputies did what Deputy Coburn has just done —adverted to the size of the bill which we were presenting...three-fifths of the rates on the first £20 and on one-fifth over that in order to guarantee to local authorities...Not only did Deputy Hughes make that particular form of propaganda—he is very active in promoting it—but...started because a number of our people throughout the country in key positions, representatives of local authorities...work here, to use our energy and skill on the resources which God gave us, we can produce an increased standard
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-11-23/4/
23 Nov 2006 -
In the period 2000 to 2005, 76 new schools were built at primary and post-primary level with construction...continue to upgrade many of the major inter-urban routes to motorway or high quality dual carriageway standard...The 2007 pay and pensions bill of €18 billion is a significant commitment of resources....The Civil Service, local authorities the non-commercial State sponsored bodies provide us with a balance
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1981-12-17/14/
17 Dec 1981 -
before the House today is the 18th Report on Developments in the European Communities, which covers activities...transport etc. and through the adoption of concrete measures to promote the convergence of the living standards...Thus the gap in living standards widened, despite the fact that aggregate Irish GDP increased at a faster...The International Common Fund for Commodities Bill, 1981, has been circulated....The Polish authorities then applied to individual member states for credits to enable them to purchase
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Debate: Joint Committee On Health And Children
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health_and_children/2005-05-19/2/
19 May 2005 -
to him, as he has acknowledged to this committee, that I considered it inappropriate and beyond my authority...the report, had already prepared in 2002 a draft memorandum for Government and associated heads of a Bill...was given to either of the Minister's advisers nor were they given copies of it as would have been standard...special advisers prepared and circulated to staff in the Department of Health and Children in March 2000...evidence to the committee, on page 58 of the transcript of proceedings, that on assuming office in 2000
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-02-27/5/
27 Feb 1986 -
It will be interesting to see if the imminent Finance Bill will make provision for this matter....If we did nothing else in this House, apart from enacting a divorce Bill, constitutional amendments and...We would be better off to go to local authority meetings and forget about this place....The 23 per cent standard rate of VAT will be increased to 25 per cent from 1 March next....to cross the Border from Newry to Clones for wedding breakfasts, parties or whatever, that type of activity
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1975-05-29/33/
29 May 1975 -
decide themselves what schemes they would operate and what schemes they would develop and just send the bill...particularly in view of the fact that the Department now pay 90 per cent of the total cost of the health bill...discussions have taken place between the Department of Health, Comhairle na nOspidéal and the hospital authorities...It was established in 1961 to co-ordinate the activities of the seven Dublin hospitals: the Adelaide,...the heading "guidelines" says that while basic services must be uniform and of the highest possible standard
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-11-26/7/
26 Nov 1997 -
He will not meet the 4 per cent target or even come close by any objective standards....Public statutory bodies, such as local authorities and health boards, are in regular contact with huge...institutions of State to remain relevant they must recognise this trend and be much more open about their activities...The Government is committed to the Partnership 2000 agreement which includes a commitment to spend £500
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1959-06-11/7/
11 Jun 1959 -
circulated to Deputies a memorandum which gives a great deal of factual information on the current activities...donors have kindly given their approval to the transfer and I accordingly propose to have the necessary Bill...There are already indications that the subsidy scheme and the increased activities of the advisory services...I would like to place on record my appreciation of the helpful attitude of the British authorities in...available, is about the best means by which farmers can increase their incomes and provide a reasonable standard
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-04-23/32/
23 Apr 1980 -
to current budget deficits it says: The stated purpose of these deficits has been to protect living standards...Indeed throughout 1976 and 1977 activity in industry, and particularly in industrial exports, had been...members of our community and that they were less deserving and less in need of relief in their taxation bill...The public are entitled to know whether the Government have any authority over the banks and, if they...currently being collected from the ESB in oil duties is approximately 20 per cent of their total fuel bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1982-06-25/4/
25 Jun 1982 -
This is a huge figure by any standard....The Finance Bill makes provision for this relief in the form of a remission of excise duty on fuel oil...Deputies will be now have seen the Sugar Manufacture (Amendment) Bill, 1982 which provides for an increase...The Second Stage of the Bill will be moved next week and it will then be possible to debate the sugar...All air and shipping companies, harbour authorities, travel agencies, home and continental yachting clubs
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-07-05/47/
5 Jul 1991 -
During the processing of the Competition Bill the Minister for Industry and Commerce was even more thorny...Environment is apparently also to be targeted, yet local authority housing estates in my constituency...Statistics show that employers' PRSI is very low by international standards....Official figures given by the Minister for Social Welfare show that the standard rate of employers' social...Finally, the decline in domestic economic activity will adversely affect the government's finances ..
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-10-16/8/
16 Oct 2013 -
autumn of last year we were told by the Minister that it was still on track and that there would be a Bill...By any standard of English usage, how can one say that is not a rate cut?...What he did not tell us was that the local authority housing budget is being cut from €55.336 million...We hear much of activation measures to encourage people into work.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-05-07/23/
7 May 1985 -
Doolan; Rachel Doyne; Sandy Fitzgerald; Jonathan Irwin; Charles Kenny; Mike Murphy; Daniel O'Hare; Bill...Jobs and Living Standards: Projections and Implications June 1975 8....Through these activities, and through such other work as the Board may consider necessary for the purpose...White, Managing Director, Industrial Development Authority. Confederation of Irish Industry: Mr.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1947-03-25/29/
25 Mar 1947 -
exercises, development and tests of material of common interest. (3) Encouragement of common designs and standards...co-operative arrangements will be without impairment of the control of either country over all its activities...to-morrow, if there is to be such a defence, is a very different thing and, in spite of the amount of the bill...that are likely to be put before us for the next three years, because we shall impress on the military authorities
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-11-11/8/
11 Nov 1971 -
situation that should exist and which would exist if the Government, over the years, apart from other activities...The people who are enjoying the lowest standard of living—they are not the people with the big cars,...We on this side of the House have checked with the Common Market authorities in Brussels about the movement...review ended on 1st July, 1971, and in April or May, 1971, the Minister, on the Control of Exports Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-01-29/18/
29 Jan 1986 -
up in December people who are doing work for them to ask if they could pre-pay some of next year's bills...If the term "standard rate" is to retain any meaning, it is clearly the rate that should apply to standard...This is equivalent to a personal tax bill of almost £2,400 for each person working in this country....Many employers and employees drift into the black or grey economy, thus escaping or evading the tax authorities...triggers off a chain reaction which displaces economic resources, distorts the pattern of economic activity
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-03-06/4/
6 Mar 1980 -
A budget at the best of times makes some adjustments in the pattern of economic activity and can take...time, ensuring that we can provide adequate employment opportunities and improvements in the overall standard...introduce a 10 per cent rate of tax on profits from manufacturing industry, to operate up to the year 2000...so during that decade total employment actually fell despite the heavy successes in raising living standards...I enjoyed one of the paragraphs in this paper, because the author was talking about what might or might
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1978-06-01/3/
1 Jun 1978 -
Employment has fallen substantially; living standards for many have stood still or declined; the private...I know from my own experience living where I live in Mayo, active on the western seaboard and generally...It is particularly important that he continues to press US Government authorities in so far as fiscal...I know instances of people going into shops in certain areas of activity where frankly it is difficult...type of military service—"military service" might be too strong a word to use, perhaps some type of adventure
