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Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: It is revenue neutral.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: We are not well funded by developers.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: They get it from Scotland.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: I am sure the Minister will inform me when he gets a chance.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: However, not on businesses.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: Deputy Coveney's party is driven by corporate donations. He should not be so sanctimonious.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: How much oil does it take to produce-----

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: It may have helped if Deputy Ó Snodaigh had tabled a parliamentary question a few weeks' ago on this matter. I agree with the sentiments of the amendments in terms of bringing down prices and keeping jobs. The annualised cost of a 0.5% reduction in VAT would mean €167 million. It would be interesting if the Tánaiste or Minister for Finance could elaborate on what would be the estimated...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: I have attended two weddings in Belfast in the past five years-----

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: They are ordinary hard-working citizens. I was not up there for the shopping; I have not been up North for two years for that very reason because even going up to see a relative means one would be scrutinised and the cameras would be out but this is beside the point. I have been told that a person working in a garage or in retail in the North can make a reasonable living and keep a family....

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome this measure and I ask if there is scope for a further reduction next year. I ask the Minister to provide the figures as per Deputy Ó Snodaigh's proposal to see if it could be a runner next year.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: We were protecting education and were honour bound to stay in government.

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

Paul Gogarty: I was not clapping.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: Deputy Bannon has just crawled up the leaderboard and overtaken Deputy Ring as the hero in this Chamber of mock indignation.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: Deputy Ring does it very well. I cannot keep a straight face when I attempt to do it, so I try not to.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: I will address that issue first. My party was accused of corruption.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: I deserve a right of reply before addressing the legislation.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: That represents a rampant hypocrisy from a member of a party, the leader of which gladly took donations from National Toll Roads, Treasury Holdings and other retail outlets in 2006. It was glad to dip the dirty hand into the trough, like Fianna Fáil, I should acknowledge.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: The Deputy need not worry; I will trace the origins of it. It smacks of hypocrisy or, let us be fair, stupidity for a Deputy from the Opposition side of the House and Fine Gael to accuse the Green Party, a party which has never taken a cent from any developer, speculator or banker, of corruption. I am on the record as having said that I disagreed with the Fianna Fáil policies of 1997 to...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Paul Gogarty: My party leader, Deputy Gormley, has put on the record the Labour Party's record on rezonings.