Results 5,121-5,140 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This part of the debate was supposed to conclude at 10.30 a.m.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We started proceedings at 10 a.m.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: If the Minister is going to persist in not answering any of the questions asked and is instead going to continue to discuss matters which are irrelevant-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 21, after "income" to insert "in excess of €6,000".On amendment No. 3, which was ruled out of order, the purpose of the proposal was to compel the House to discuss all proposed changes to the household benefits package. The legislation makes no such provision. Will the Minister indicate on what basis changes are made to the household benefits...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Currently, if somebody is forced to rely on illness benefit, the first three days are not paid. The employer is supposed to handle that. That has been extended to six days. There are two possibilities here. If the employer has a sick pay scheme, he or she will have to pony up. This will result on an extra cost on employers at a time when there are 32 applicants for every available job...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am irreconcilably opposed to this Bill. Not only am I opposed to the unseemly haste with which it is being rammed through this House by the use of the guillotine, I am also fundamentally opposed to its provisions because they form the centrepiece of this Government's third regressive budget in a row. In the budgetary context, when an adjustment is needed and money is taken out of the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, I wish to state in protest against the way this is being rammed through-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: -----and in protest against the charade that is taking place tomorrow-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We wish to oppose the taking of Second Stage now.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We object to that.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Government parties promised to be different. They promised change.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: One cannot believe everything she says.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: No. The Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013 is lengthy and complex legislation. It was published only 36 hours ago. Since its publication, the Bills Office has been in contact with my office in regard to proposed amendments because the Bill will progress to Committee and Remaining Stages immediately on conclusion of Second Stage. The Tánaiste will be aware that more than 1 million...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: It also abolishes the bereavement grant and free telephone allowance. These measures will have the most profound consequences for some of the most vulnerable people in this country. Why the rush? In the lead up to the last general election, when the Labour Party was in opposition, it proposed, as part of Dáil reform, that there be an interval between the different Stages of...
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: It is complex legislation.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I must object.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This is directly contrary to-----
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am entitled to raise a point of order.
- Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This is dictatorship and Gestapo tactics.