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Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: And what I am going to say-----

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will remind the Labour Party of what the respectable Labour Party was. It was when we had people of calibre, such as the late Michael Moynihan, who was a Labour Party Deputy in Kerry South.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: He was a respectable person but the Labour Party tarnished his reputation. The Labour Party and the Workers Party destroyed themselves when they hurt every worker and every person who was trying to do something in Ireland and good-----

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am coming back to it. The motion speaks about a fair start for young people.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Look at what the Labour Party did to young people when it had power. It abused its power, that is what it did. There was a Labour Party Minister who was nothing but outright disgraceful in her actions. The Labour Party hurt so many people and now it is wondering why it is in the doldrums. It will never again scrape itself up off the ground because of what it did to people.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will never forget what it did when there were budgets being debated here. I will never forgive the Labour Party for what it did, never.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It was a disgrace. I will now yield to my brother and perhaps Deputy Howlin will give him a better hearing.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Labour Party is a disgrace and I am only acknowledging in the House that it is a disgrace. As for this charade of bringing the motion before the House, when it had power it abused it. That is what it did.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: You were an abuse.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: There was a Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection who hurt everybody. She took away the death grant from people and hurt them.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is right.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is Deputy Howlin's microphone that should be turned off.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Ellis told him the truth.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The truth hurts. That is what gets them when they are reminded of their record.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: He is being argumentative because he does not like being told the truth.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is true.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: When a motion like this comes before the House which deserves support, a Member will usually stand up and say so. The first thing I must do, however, is ask why, in God's name, the Labour Party was not as thoughtful, caring and considerate when it was in government. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. When I hear a proposal like this from the Labour Party, I think of what it did to...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----but I remember when the then Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, stood in the Government benches and was as brazen and as cocky. She did not give a damn about the people she was hurting. There were people on low family incomes.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Labour Party is talking now about being fair to young people as they start out in life, but where was the fairness in doing away with the death grant?