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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Fianna F&Atilde;&iexcl;il did not cause the international recession.  It is an important fact, which may be inconvenient for some of the Members opposite, but, nonetheless, it has to be stated on this occasion.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="474.1">Fianna Fáil did not cause the international recession.  It is an important fact, which may be inconvenient for some of the Members opposite, but, nonetheless, it has to be stated on this occasion.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>At the end of the day, Fianna F&Atilde;&iexcl;il did not cause the international recession or the domestic recession. </description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="472.1">At the end of the day, Fianna Fáil did not cause the international recession or the domestic recession. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>That is a rather odd request to make.  It does not do much for them or for politics in this country that people are expected to apologise for a period of unprecedented growth.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="470.1">That is a rather odd request to make.  It does not do much for them or for politics in this country that people are expected to apologise for a period of unprecedented growth.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>He asked Fianna F&Atilde;&iexcl;il to apologise for the last ten years of growth and boom in the country.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="468.1">He asked Fianna Fáil to apologise for the last ten years of growth and boom in the country.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>We have adopted some of their ideas.  Broadly speaking, the approach of attacking the structural deficit is one that is shared by Fianna F&Atilde;&iexcl;il and Fine Gael, certainly from the pronouncements by...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="466.1">We have adopted some of their ideas.  Broadly speaking, the approach of attacking the structural deficit is one that is shared by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, certainly from the pronouncements by their spokesman.</p><p pid="466.2">One of the funniest politically correct requests in this House was made by Deputy Ruairí Quinn, who was once referred to as Ho Chi Quinn by the former Tánaiste, John Wilson.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>In fairness to Fine Gael, I acknowledge that they do recognise the seriousness of the situation we are in.  </description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="464.1">In fairness to Fine Gael, I acknowledge that they do recognise the seriousness of the situation we are in.  </p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>I do not want to appear to be picking on the Labour Party, as some of the Fine Gael Members seem to be making out here.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="461.1">I do not want to appear to be picking on the Labour Party, as some of the Fine Gael Members seem to be making out here.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Our hospitality sector might not survive without the non-Irish workers who comprise 40% of the staff in the hotel sector. There is a tendency during recessions to be constantly negative about our...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="459.1">Our hospitality sector might not survive without the non-Irish workers who comprise 40% of the staff in the hotel sector.</p><p pid="459.2">There is a tendency during recessions to be constantly negative about our prospects as a nation.  A little reported event occurred this week when the UK attempted to sell Government bonds worth £1.5 billion to the international markets.  There were no takers for the offer, however.  Contrast that with the €1 billion bond offer by the NTMA a few days later which was oversubscribed by a factor of between two and three.  The bond comprised a €300 million offering over a three year period with the balance being offered over ten years.  In regard to the views of external rating agencies, there is nothing better than an offer to put money down as a sign of confidence in a country.  That bond issue indicates strong confidence internationally in what we are doing in Ireland.  Matters are not as dismal as some would like to claim in response to pronouncements by rating agencies.  It is also instructive to note how lucky we have been to be members of the euro at this particular time.  One may contrast that with the situation in the UK, which I suspect-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>The approach of the Government to the structural deficit is critical.  Certain areas of the tax yield have been reduced primarily because of our dependence on property and construction related...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="457.1">The approach of the Government to the structural deficit is critical.  Certain areas of the tax yield have been reduced primarily because of our dependence on property and construction related transactions.  Other substantial structural issues within the economy are creating deficits that must now be repaired if we are to be a more seaworthy ship when the good times return.</p><p pid="457.2">The Minister has taken the initiative to visit key markets around the world to reassure them that the Irish economy is being taken in hand.  We have been the subject of negative commentary from our old friends across the water in the UK.  It was no accident that the Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services, Mr. Charlie McCreevy, made a public statement recently on the negativity expressed by British commentators regarding the Irish economy.  While we have heard such comments before and know the motives from which they spring, they are deeply inaccurate.  Our workforce comprises 1.9 million people, we are hugely competitive and have one of the wealthiest economies in the world.  We have become a great trading country in the past ten years and export 80% of what we produce.  Our export figures remain positive, even if the balance of trade has been influenced by the decline in imports.  Many of our exporters are holding their own.</p><p pid="457.3">We had good news in the past several weeks in regard to a Hewlett Packard investment which will create between 500 and 1,000 jobs in the medium term.  If I might digress to speak about my portfolio, it was interesting that one of the reasons given by the chief executive of Hewlett Packard for his decision to invest in Ireland was the ready availability of language skills.  The Irish have not been great linguists in the past but the mass immigration we have experienced in the past decade is paying dividends.  I was contacted today about the callers to the “Liveline” show who projected their fears and anxieties, understandable as these may be, onto vulnerable immigrants.  It is important that we avoid lapsing into a sterile rhetoric which ignores the enormous contributions immigrants have made to our economy.  Our health sector would collapse without the contributions of immigrant workers.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Their competitive offer to the electorate attempted to match ours at the very least.  I am not surprised that they did not win the election, however.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="455.1">Their competitive offer to the electorate attempted to match ours at the very least.  I am not surprised that they did not win the election, however.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>It has formally given us until 2013 to bring our deficit back into line with the 3% guideline figure that is required.  The ECB and its president in particular, Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, have been...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="453.1">It has formally given us until 2013 to bring our deficit back into line with the 3% guideline figure that is required.  The ECB and its president in particular, Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, have been enormously supportive.  All of us, certainly, in the main parties, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour, are of one voice on this matter - without the European Central Bank and the input, influence and affluence of the European Union, we would be facing a very difficult and much worse situation.</p><p pid="453.2">I must emphasise that spending cuts cannot be effected all at once.  There is a very delicate balance between how much can be taken out of an economy by way of extra taxation and additional spending cuts.  Spending has been reined in and, as I said, there will be another budget in October.  There has been an imaginative effort by the Minister for Finance to introduce a programme of better early retirement options for civil servants and I believe that will be taken up.  That scheme will appeal to civil servants in a certain age bracket who might be encouraged to leave the service.</p><p pid="453.3">The exercise of the early retirement option and the embargo on further recruitment will result in a leaner and, I hope, more efficient Civil Service.  Our work on public service reform will continue and we expect to receive an important report in that regard.  Simply because we have announced a budget does not mean the reform process for the public service has been cast aside.  I suggest these efforts will gather pace in the years ahead.  The Minister has introduced further positive measures in terms of the three year career break for younger civil servants who do not qualify for early retirement.  That will appeal to many people in the current economic climate.  The Minister was correct to mitigate the effects of the pension levy on lower paid public servants.  Although the levy had to be imposed, many people felt it was unfair on that category of workers.</p><p pid="453.4">It is important that we send a message to the taxpayers and citizens of this country that the political class, including Members of this House, is making a profound contribution to the cost reduction programme and the austerity package presented in this budget.  Particularly in recent years, a degree of cynicism has been directed at this House and its Members.  We should let the public know when we are interviewed on the radio or speak to our constituents that we are also feeling the pain.  It is not the case that the political class is out of touch with the mood of austerity and the need for radical reductions in public expenditure.</p><p pid="453.5">We have to broaden the tax base.  I acknowledge that Fianna Fáil-led Governments over the past ten years might have been overly ambitious with regard to tax reductions.  The tax base has been narrowed to the point where 40% of the workforce do not pay taxes and 77% of the tax yield comes from the top 20% of earners.  That is a very unusual situation.  In some ways it is a reflection of the success of the Government in reducing the tax burden since we came to power.  Perhaps we reduced tax rates by too much, but I did not hear many complaints.  It is remarkable that prior to the 2007 election even the Labour Party felt compelled to announce that it would not impose additional taxes.  Labour Deputies would like to accuse us of reducing taxes by too much, but they also joined the party.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>-----it is not over yet.  There will be another budget before the end of the year.  We will have to move, in a very programmed and planned manner, towards a situation where we get our costs under...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="451.1">-----it is not over yet.  There will be another budget before the end of the year.  We will have to move, in a very programmed and planned manner, towards a situation where we get our costs under control.  We have the time and space to do this between now and 2013.  Thankfully, the European Commission has, under the Growth and Stability Pact and in accordance with the rules governing how we manage our financial affairs in the European context, given us until 2013 to get our affairs in order and reduce the deficit-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>It was a light-hearted comment about one of our best known commentators, who, as many have said outside the House as well, sometimes has a look of relish about him when he reports on catastrophe....</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="449.1">It was a light-hearted comment about one of our best known commentators, who, as many have said outside the House as well, sometimes has a look of relish about him when he reports on catastrophe.  That is, perhaps, a well known fact I would have thought for many people. </p><p pid="449.2">The important point about this budget is that it sets out a balance between our borrowing requirements, the need for spending cuts and the need for extra taxation.  Before I was interrupted by Deputy Reilly, I was saying that this supplementary budget has to be seen in the context of what had already occurred in terms of the last full budget as well as the fact that there is to be another budget at the end of the year.  Some people have suggested that perhaps we did not go far enough as regards spending cuts, favouring increases in taxation, but-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>It was not intended to be disparaging.  I know George Lee very well.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="447.1">It was not intended to be disparaging.  I know George Lee very well.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>All the reform that occurred in the social democratic movement in Britain and right across Europe has simply not happened in the Irish Labour Party.  It appears from some of its pronouncements in...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="444.1">All the reform that occurred in the social democratic movement in Britain and right across Europe has simply not happened in the Irish Labour Party.  It appears from some of its pronouncements in this and other debates in this House that its members are still cheerleaders for State ownership and big union power, even though all of the mainstream social democratic movements in the UK and elsewhere have departed from that particular policy mix.  It is noticeable also that when one hears Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Gordon Brown, the lineal successors of John Smith and Neil Kinnock, they are not enthusiastic cheerleaders for the nationalisation of banks.  They do it as the least desirable choice when it comes to dealing with banks and the banking system.  One senses a degree of relish almost in the Labour Party speakers at the fact that we are actually in recession.  One can only compare this to the relish one sees on George Lee’s face on television at the mention of the word “recession” and what disaster might next beset us. </p><p pid="444.2">Socialists have always opposed big capital and banks and we see a good deal of this in statements emanating from the left wing parties at the moment.  The budget announced yesterday is the first step in our economic recovery.  It is a supplementary budget and a response to the political and financial situation which is changing literally by the day and by the month.  One can no longer introduce a budget in this House and say: “That will be it.”  We know, for example, that the Government has taken on the very difficult task of paring back public spending.  This particular supplementary budget must be viewed against the background and in the context of the earlier full-scale budget and-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>-----Neil Kinnock and the late John Smith were reforming that party, bringing it into what was then the 20th century. </description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="442.1">-----Neil Kinnock and the late John Smith were reforming that party, bringing it into what was then the 20th century. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<description>I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording us the opportunity to speak on this particular resolution.  It is important to say at the outset that the Taoiseach and the Government have been...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="440.2">I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording us the opportunity to speak on this particular resolution. </p><p pid="440.3">It is important to say at the outset that the Taoiseach and the Government have been commendably frank in this debate and throughout the crisis besetting this country since the international economy tipped into recession.  We have tried to be frank, open and honest with the public and that is illustrated by the Taoiseach’s statement, very clearly enunciated on a number of occasions, that we will see a 10% erosion in Irish living standards over the next 18 months to two years.  It takes something to admit that, to be honest with the public and say, in effect, that this is not going to be easy or nice, but rather very difficult - perhaps the greatest and toughest challenge any Government has had to face.  It is not an easy time to be in government, and I suspect that many of the Members opposite, in Fine Gael and Labour, would have to do virtually the same things we are now doing with public spending and taxation were they in power.  Privately, many of them, I believe, will admit to that outside the Chamber.</p><p pid="440.4">I had the privilege of sitting beside the Taoiseach this morning when this debate opened.  It was remarkable, in many ways, to listen to the comments and speeches emanating from the Labour Party leader, Deputy Gilmore, his predecessor, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, and his immediate predecessor, Deputy Pat Rabbitte.  It struck me very forcibly that the Labour Party is the least reformed left wing social democratic party on the European landscape.  It has not, or does not appear to have, got the message that even the British Labour Party has got.  I was a member of the British Labour Party in the 1980s, when-----</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-03.552.0&amp;m=472#g592.0</link>
	<description>Mr. Dermot Gleeson, the chairman of Allied Irish Banks, was a Fine Gael appointed Attorney General.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="592.1">Mr. Dermot Gleeson, the chairman of Allied Irish Banks, was a Fine Gael appointed Attorney General.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-03T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-03.552.0&amp;m=472#g590.0</link>
	<description>It is not embarrassing.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="590.1">It is not embarrassing.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-03T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-03.552.0&amp;m=472#g588.0">
	<title>Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-03.552.0&amp;m=472#g588.0</link>
	<description>The chairman of Allied Irish Banks is a Fine Gael man.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="588.1">The chairman of Allied Irish Banks is a Fine Gael man.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-03T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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