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Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: He said he would tell us about the North.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Here is the guy who has one policy in Newry and another in Dundalk. I welcome his conversion to democracy. We have ways of-----

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Two-faced? You could give lectures on being two-faced, you hypocrite.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Your friends were caught in a van with items to commit crime. You come in here and talk. You hypocrite. One policy in Dundalk and one in Newry.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Look in the mirror and you will see what it means.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: One policy in Dundalk and one in Newry. That is hypocrisy. You do not have to go to any dictionary.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: That is hypocrisy of the highest order. They are hypocrites.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I propose to share time with Deputy Barry Cowen if he appears in the Chamber. The central defence made by the Minister is that core social welfare rates will remain unchanged. Like many things, that is not completely true but it is partly true. I wish to draw the attention of the House to a phenomenon known as the poverty line. The poverty line is an internationally accepted standard....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Joint Policing Committees (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the future of joint policing committees; his view on broadening their remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55484/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form the number of recipients of child benefit who are in receipt of payments for third and subsequent child broken down by country and number of children. [55373/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grants (11 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide in tabular breakdown by county of the total number of persons in receipt of respite care grant, regardless of other payments in 2010, 2011 and 2012. [55553/12]

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: It does not reveal that many people are leaving the workforce. As Dan O'Brien noted in an article in The Irish Times last Monday, one measures the participation rate, which is the true measure of unemployment. Moreover, it does not take into account the fact that people are hiding out in the education system and in all the training schemes and nor does it take into account that, if my...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: In that case, I will not dwell on social welfare because I will have plenty of time to talk about it next week while debating the Social Welfare Bill, on which I will have much to say.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: In conclusion, as a result of these savage social welfare cuts and as a result of another regressive budget on top of the one which preceded it-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: -----Ireland now is a tale of two countries. On the one hand, there are the rich and the exempted, whose privileges are protected and preserved intact, while on the other hand, 750,000 people are living below the internationally-recognised poverty line in a population of slightly more than 4 million. In other words, 750,000 people are living below what is regarded as the international...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Brian Hayes has an intellectual giant beside him.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: This budget is first and foremost an arithmetical exercise, as all budgets are, designed to bring in a certain amount of tax, spend a certain amount of money and come to a final result at the end of the day. A budget also needs to be more than just an exercise in mathematics, but the problem is that this one is not. A budget needs to be part of an overall strategy and must have a certain...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I did not interrupt anybody here and I expect at least the same courtesy from the Minister of State.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The mansion tax is a phantom, a chimera and a shameless fig leaf to conceal the naked capitulation of the Labour Party to the demands of Fine Gael. How can a party that calls itself Labour and claims descent from Connolly and Larkin sign up to consecutive cuts to the clothing and footwear allowance? In addition, there have been cuts to the back-to-education allowance, respite care grant,...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The discussions on how this matter was played out between both parties, which got a lot of coverage in the national newspapers, is most interesting. In last Monday's Irish Independent, a Labour source - and Labour was part of the Government the last time I checked - said: "We feel Fine Gael are out of touch and decided to throw welfare cuts into the pot ... It reveals the priority of our...