Rabbitte, PatTuesday, 10 October 1995 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Job Creation.
The Deputy is not accustomed to listening.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Irish Press Group.
Where does the Deputy stand on the issue?
I apologise.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Companies' Report.
The latest Companies Report presented in accordance with section 392 of the Companies Act, 1963 was published in November 1993. The drafting of the next report to December 1994 is at an advanced stag...
I do not know that figure but the most recent report published shows a very large number of recalcitrant companies were prosecuted for failure to file returns; 1,963 companies were prosecuted that yea...
I am tempted to say I will leave that until the main event later today — the procuring and handling of Government contracts.
Extremely.
It will also deal with the manner in which they were awarded under the ancien regime.
A tax clearance certificate is the primary requirement. I do not know if a search is carried out in the Companies Office to see if returns are filed. I do not believe it is mandatory to do so.
The procedures and systems in the Companies Office are being examined. I referred to the IT injection envisaged given the evaluation of a plan we are considering. If the latest computer capacity is a...
Companies Office reports issued over the years, as required under the 1963 Act, have tended to be mainly statistical. The provision in the 1963 Act is very general in nature. It is only in the recen...
The figures I quoted were from the latest report. The trend has been that the report is published approximately one year after the end of the relevant year. Although the position was much worse in t...
I agree the situation is not ideal.
The report is virtually complete and I expect to be able to bring it to Government within the next couple of months. It will be published before the end of the year. As I indicated, it is not, unfor...
I will have to take advice on that matter. I do not think I would be in a position to assure Deputy O'Keeffe or the House that all companies prior to 1992 which were required to register did so or th...
If one examines the statistics for any given year, one would be quite surprised by the number of transgressions. Some of these are merely technical but others are more serious.
Before I reply to that, I wish to indicate to Deputy O'Keeffe that in the last report to which I referred, annual company formations were in excess of 14,000 since 1989, so we are talking about a fair...
Order of Business.
Where is Deputy Cowen? I see the brawn but not the brains. Question, “That the words proposed to be deleted stand” put and declared carried.
Report of Task Force on State-Sponsored Bodies: Statements.
Did you renounce O'Leary?
If you had been Minister for much longer, there would be no State property left. (Interruptions.)
Not much happened when the Deputy was Minister.
That is untrue.
This is like “What It Says In The Papers”. The Deputy is out of date.
What did Dermot say about it?
Like a site on the Internet, it was free.
That is a new guideline.
The Government of which the Deputy was a member made 550 appointments before it left office.
The Deputy wrote that script before he heard the Minister.
The Minister never referred to this.
That was not half enough for the work he did.
The Deputy will never displace Johnnie Cochran.
The action is against the Minister.
Ask him one.
Was the Deputy with him?
And pays for his trips.
There was probably a back entrance.
It is like asking Bart Simpson if he was bold.
Florida Enterprises.
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