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Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Government will not be opposing the motion, rather it supports it. If there was a suggested Government amendment to it, it would probably relate to the last point of the motion which states "agrees that the elderly should not be used as just economic statistics". Perhaps that wording should be amended to include the words "and should not also be used as political footballs". If there...

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: An income threshold in this respect had to be put in place for the over 70s. The idea that somebody who has an income in retirement greater than that of a Deputy qualifies for a medical card is bananas.

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: That was a great crack.

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy O'Dea would not be guilty of that at all.

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I wrote about it. The Deputy and I were both writing for Douglas Weekly at the time, but we had different things to say. The market was bust; there was no doubt about it. The craziest aspect of the whole situation is that mortgages worth ten times people's incomes were being given out, with repayment periods of 30 to 35 years. It was nothing but a Ponzi scheme, which was sustained by the...

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The opening paragraph of the Fianna Fáil motion states there were 142,118 family home mortgages in arrears on 31 March 2013. That is a fact; the question is why. The answer, of course, is that it is the legacy of the wait and see approach adopted by the previous Administration to this issue. In short, it did nothing. The Fianna Fáil Party has raised this issue more times during...

Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Hear, hear.

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Message from Select Committee (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Select Sub-committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2013: Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy understands the procedure as he has been in the House a lot longer than I have. I am on my feet, so be quiet. The Minister to continue without interruption or else the Deputy will be out of this Chamber.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Through the Chair, please.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask both the Minister and the Deputy to speak through the Chair.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We will have to finish on this, as we are running out of time.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Minister to sit down and the Deputy to be quiet. I am on my feet and I will ask the Deputy to leave the Chamber if I have to speak to him again.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Adams is one himself.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: For a number of reasons I am advocating that the House should oppose this Bill when the question is put tomorrow night. It is clear that the Bill is focused on establishing further committees and creating an extremely cumbersome bureaucracy. The enactment of this legislation could lead to progress in the area of equality becoming bogged down for many years. In essence, the Bill represents...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy MacLochlainn is having a bad hair day and he should relax.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Another technical difficulty which arises relates to the definition of the Houses of the Oireachtas as public bodies. Neither these Houses nor the Government are public bodies. Sinn Féin may come to realise that if it takes up office at some point in the future. A Government is not a public body; it is put in power in order that it might legislate. The definition of Government as a...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Neither an impact assessment nor explanatory memorandum are provided with the Bill. In addition, no costings or financial implications have been supplied in respect of it. Deputy Martin Ferris referred earlier to former prison inmates and IRA prisoners. I spent ten years working in the criminal justice system. I worked on Spike Island, in Cork prison and in probation, pre-release and...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Bill would give rise to a resource-intensive system. It is very demanding legislation. Performance indicators and outcomes are either confused in nature or are absent from the Bill entirely. Regardless of the intention behind it, the measure is technically flawed and ill-prepared. On that basis, it should not be allowed to proceed. At best it represents a poor attempt at what might...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: My comments must be hurting the Deputy because he is shouting at me.