Davin, WilliamWednesday, 15 May 1929 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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From rates.
Less than 50 per cent.
Put a tax on petrol.
The Minister for Local Government has taken great pains to give a very detailed explanation in support of the tax which is being imposed in this particular part of the Financial Resolutions. I dare s...
Well, the report of the Mallow speech in the “Irish Independent” gave the figure at £100,000 and I am relying on the report of the speech in the “Independent.” I take it now that the Minister's origi...
Whether the alteration in the method of applying the tax has been caused as a result of the threats made by the Bus Owners' Association or not I am not quite sure. The whole question—and that should ...
I am quoting from figures purporting to have been used by Mr. Churchill, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and if Deputy Moore will disprove anything in these figures and show that they are wro...
I am dealing with these matters because I suggest they have a bearing on the proposals contained in this Resolution.
Here is another point from the statement of the Bus Owners' Protection Association: “He has raised the value of agricultural land in many districts, and so saved hundreds of farmers from bankruptcy.” ...
There is no use in thrashing a dead horse, and someday or other, when Deputy Flinn is Minister for Finance in a Fianna Fáil Government, there will be established one State Department which will deal w...
Not passenger traffic.
Would the Deputy produce his balance sheet?
I never suggested that the buses should be taxed off the roads. I said quite the opposite.
Stronger than the farmers.
Is that because of the increased 16 per cent. of the ratepayers' contributions over last year?
Will the Minister say why he has already made himself responsible for the introduction of the Bill which takes power to approve of roads for one section of bus owners and gives absolutely unlimited fr...
In Committee on Finance. - Vote No. 62—Posts and Telegraphs.
What is the basis of representation, and what is the number of delegates attending that Convention on behalf of the present Government?
If the Parliamentary Secretary is so concerned about saving, surely one delegate instead of three would have been sufficient.
Would the Parliamentary Secretary give the average cost of installing the 73 new exchanges?
I think that the figures which have been given the House this evening by the Parliamentary Secretary will serve a useful purpose, if not in the course of this discussion, at any rate for future refere...
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