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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Child and Family Services: Tusla - Child and Family Agency (17 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Tusla will need between 200 and 280 additional social workers on top of what is in train to fully meet-----

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: It is not agreed. When the Government came to power, it promised a democratic revolution. We have just sat through 50 minutes of what could only be described as verbal diarrhoea in which the Tánaiste refused to answer very basic questions.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Deputy Durkan is now going to add to that.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Once again, we have heard another broken promise.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: The Government was going to abolish the guillotining of legislation, yet a very important Bill, which was debated this morning and on which there were numerous divisions called, is to be guillotined. The only way the Government feels it can get it through is by introducing a guillotine. It is wrong that the Government has broken a promise it made. For that reason, we oppose the...

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: A lot of Members on the other side will get a permanent rest when they go to the country.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: This legislation is about taking money out of their pockets.

Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Many of the Tánaiste's party have left as well.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: The Tánaiste is admitting, then, that she is the mouthpiece of Fine Gael.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: It ill behoves the Tánaiste to try to take cheap shots at me.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: It is a matter of fact that I have a post office in my constituency.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: I declared it on the list of Members' interests. I have declared it umpteen times on the floor of this House.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: No. What the Tánaiste is trying to do is make it personal.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Post office staff are listening to this debate.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: Those staff want answers. I want answers on behalf of the 3,700 people employed in the post office network across the country.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: I have asked a number of questions this morning, but the Tánaiste has not answered one.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: In her typical style-----

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: -----she has come in and tried to talk the topic down.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: It does not do her justice that she does not answer the questions.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Robert Troy: We are asking questions on behalf of the people whom we represent.