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- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It is blatantly thoughtless and anti-competitive. The Government also mentioned such countries as Sweden and the Netherlands where there is no rebate, but there is no redundancy system similar to this country in those countries. The system there is entirely different. By comparing apples with oranges one is trying to defend the indefensible. It will now cost two and a half times more to...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Government is apparently relying on austerity by itself without any stimulus, plan or job creation measures to get this country through the current crisis. It is like a medieval doctor who used invariably to treat patients by applying leeches to suck out the blood of patients. If the patient did not recover, one got another leech to suck out the blood again.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Eventually, when there is no blood left, the patient dies.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: That is the Government's strategy for pulling the country out of its present economic travails. Let us face it; it will not work. Everyone agrees that austerity alone will not do the job. That is widely accepted by all economic commentators on all sides of the political divide. When Roosevelt took America off the gold standard, he was influenced by the advice of one of his top advisers...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The reaction of the various members of the Government to the situation is instructive. In recent weeks the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has been behaving like a modern day version of the 1960s character, Maxwell Smart, hiding in corridors waiting for a journalist to pass-----
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: -----to say that by the way the Labour Party is stopping Fine Gael doing A, B and C and to make sure to print that Labour did it and that the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, led the charge.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister for Health is acting like a pantomime villain. If one does not give him his way, he will huff and puff and blow the hospitals down.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I know it is Christmas but he looks and acts like a pantomime villain.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar - the man who seems to be permanently poised between a platitude and a peccadillo - is turning himself into a latter day Marie Antoinette and giving a modern day version of "Let them eat cake".
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach is a man who does not care which way the car is going once he is in the driver's seat.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: My constituency colleague, the unflappable Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, acts as if-----
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: -----he does not have a care in the world and everything is perfect in the garden.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: He is a tremendous communicator. I will give him full credit for that. I must strike a rather sour note.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: This morning, unfortunately, after a long period of absence and I presume inactivity, because I cannot remember what he is responsible for, the Minister for whatever, Deputy Rabbitte, came to the House and proceeded to laugh and sneer at our questions about the disabled, guidance teachers and how the poor are impacted on-----
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I remember when Deputy Rabbitte ceased to be a Minister. He was the dumb waiter in the Government led by the then Taoiseach, Mr. John Bruton. He was the super junior Minister who could not talk at Cabinet meetings.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: He was there without any great effect and when he ceased to be a Minister, one of his media groupies wrote an article about him to the effect that there is one thing one could say about Deputy Pat Rabbitte, that he grew in office. He is growing again but the economy is shrinking.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, looks very tired because he has been on a long journey. It is a long journey from left wing, revolutionary Marxist to chief cheerleader for the right wing of Fine Gael. I will hand over to my colleague, Deputy Kirk.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I will conclude the great budget debate. Unfortunately, the lemmings are in charge and they are leading the people towards the cliff rather than away from it.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: They will be here.
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It is not very funny when there are more than 400,000 unemployed.