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Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Gogarty should not worry. The only old banger in here is the one he has been driving in the Green Party for years. It is just about clapped out. With regard to the Tánaiste's reply to the previous questioner, will the Finance Bill be before the Dáil on 12 January? Is that when we will address it? What is reason the Government intends running it forward to the beginning of the...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If the Tánaiste was a little more forthcoming in her replies, we would have a better idea what exactly is lying ahead of us so the Opposition could properly prepare, which we are entitled to do.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the climate change Bill be taken before this Dáil concludes, that is, before the 30th Dáil rises and Members go before the people? Will the debate on the Finance Bill start as of 12 January?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Tánaiste says it takes all this time but it took her very little time to ram forward the Social Welfare Bill and all that entails-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and the so-called Public Interest Bill - God forgive the phrase - that is to be introduced later this evening. It does not wear. Nobody is buying that.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not that inordinate time was required.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government, when it wants to ram something through, has been able to bring forward legislative measures, and this-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The answer is absolutely unacceptable.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Today the Government is asking us to agree to the ordering of business that will allow for the ramming through of the Social Welfare Bill that seeks to savagely strike out again at the most vulnerable in our society. Against all of that, as has just been referred to, the executives in Allied Irish Bank, a bank that is now virtually State-owned, will be paid bonuses up to a sum of some €40...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have to get real. The Government is taking its eye off the ball in that regard for sure. Shamelessly, the Government is seeking to place the most vulnerable in the worst possible situation facing into Christmas and the New Year. There is no way we can agree to the passage of this Bill, or the ordering of what is here - let there be no mistake about it. One can look at budgets in...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and shame on the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Members for doing so.

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that seven domestic workers employed by diplomats have complained to the Labour Relations Commission about their treatment by their employers, and that three of these cases are so serious they have been referred to the Garda anti-trafficking unit; and if he will introduce measures similar...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when he will publish details of the new immigration regime for full-time non-EEA students [46621/10]

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a disastrous budget. It is an anti-people, anti-democratic budget, which is clearly the product of a sell-out of Irish sovereignty to the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank. It is an effort by a totally discredited Government with no mandate and in its dying days to impose a Thatcherite economic strategy on the people. The result of this cruel strategy will be to...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is absolutely deplorable. All in all this is a shameful showing. I am delighted the Minister, Deputy Gormley, is present because the Green Party has presented itself as the saviour of the education sector. Time after time, it has said its defence of the education sector was a major part of its whole contribution to the formulation of this budget. If that is the case, what can I say...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is the dying kick.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies will not agree to this Order of Business. We contend this Government has neither a moral nor a democratic right to impose a budget on the people today.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, it is not. I am challenging the Order of Business.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Very clearly, this will be a budget based on the IMF-EU sell-out deal and on a four year plan that seeks to tie the Irish people to an economic strategy which is doomed from the outset. Clearly, the situation is that the Taoiseach's Government is on a life support machine, courtesy of Deputies Healy-Rae and Lowry. When will the Taoiseach declare the detail of any agreement made with these...