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Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have been silenced and prevented from participating.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This Bill is anti-children, anti-young people and anti-jobs.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The situation which obtains now is very different from that which obtained just over then years ago.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: What about the real hardship that will result from what is being done?

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Shame.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Sinn Féin Deputies object to taking the Order of Business as proposed by the Tánaiste. I wish to correct one point in respect of Deputy Gilmore's portrayal of the now famous six, who he refers to as strays. If one takes a look at them, there is only one stray among the six and the other five are clearly prodigal sons. All too sadly, they will return to the fold as the need presents....

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will oppose it line by line.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Last night, the gulf between Government Deputies and those who elected them grew wider than ever before. The people looked on with horror as the members of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party applauded a savage budget that attacks the poor, the low-paid and the medium income earners. It was a budget cobbled together by economic illiterates.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am glad that has been noted. The Minister, Deputy Lenihan's, speech must rank as one of the greatest examples of self-delusion we have ever had to listen to. Either that or he is deeply cynical. Certainly, he is trying to delude the Irish people. He told us we are "on the road to economic recovery". Who does he think he is kidding? Like a First World War general, the Minister told us...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The full extent of the health cutbacks in this budget will become clear in time and public patients will pay dearly for them. I spoke earlier of the Government's oft-repeated claim that we are a knowledge economy. The Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, chose not to highlight in his speech the cuts of €200 million to education in 2010. It is an outrage that 27% has been cut from the budget...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Sinn Féin understands and accepts the change.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On a point of order. There are three Opposition parties in this House. I note the Taoiseach continues only to refer to two.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While believing it is important the House is afforded an opportunity to address the measures relating to the new powers of national parliaments under the Lisbon Treaty and the need to ensure there is a full understanding of what is involved, which is neither exaggerated or made less of, and that the full information is open and not only understood in this House but beyond, we, in Sinn Féin,...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Bill described as the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009 could be known as many things, quite obviously one of them is as an emigration Bill for those aged up to 24 who find themselves unemployed because that is exactly what it is. It is a recipe for emigration and encouragement for young people to leave these shores. It is not, as the Minister claimed yesterday, about...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As I indicated earlier, if this is not done and dusted they will return here with a fit of the jitters.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They will lose their nerve and they will not be able to vote it through. That is what this is all about and make no mistake about it. We will not support it on the Order Paper and we will vehemently oppose its forced passage through the House. There is a real alternative and that alternative was spelled out to the Government several weeks ago in a carefully thought-through document...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There is no mention of Monaghan. -----and the development of new primary care centres through lease arrangements to include Kinnegad, Moate, Gorey, Waterford, Carlow, Callan and Trim early in 2010, with a further 37 centres during the remainder of the year.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Proposal No. 1 on the extension of time for a Thursday sitting is to accommodate the introduction of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill. It is unprecedented that the Bill is following not only the budget debate but is coming immediately after the leaders' contributions and that the debate on the budget will be suspended to accommodate the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----and, most disgracefully and most inexcusably, cuts to carers benefit and carer's allowance. These are among the range of cuts we are being asked to accommodate. In a further proposition on the Order Paper, we are being asked to support the guillotining of Second Stage at 1 p.m. tomorrow and the Remaining Stages at 6.30 p.m. This is absolutely scandalous and it is not acceptable to this...