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Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Ouch.

Public Transport. (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: That is hardly surprising.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: That is a laugh.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister is right about that.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister would want to pay their arrears.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: They need more than that.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: They failed to rise to the occasion.

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Bernard Durkan: That is right.

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

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

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

Bernard Durkan: From Brazil.

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

Bernard Durkan: It will shrink considerably in the future.

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

Bernard Durkan: That is right.

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

Bernard Durkan: Were the people not lucky in that regard?

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

Bernard Durkan: It will not.

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

Bernard Durkan: I will be uncharacteristically brief. I am sure that, like me, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is impressed that all of the Green Party parliamentary contingent, including its Ministers, have come before the House for this debate. This is something they have not done for the past two and a half years and I welcome it.

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

Bernard Durkan: I have always been opposed to a carbon tax because I believe it is a farce.

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

Bernard Durkan: If the Minister will wait to hear-----

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

Bernard Durkan: The only basis on which I would accept a tax of this nature is if it was specifically dedicated to create jobs, which this country needs at the moment.

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

Bernard Durkan: In this case, unfortunately, it is not. The Green Party Members may well have gorged themselves on bowls of muesli, worn the sandals and hugged every tree they saw but the people penalised as a result of this tax are the poor people in this country. Every industry, every household, carers and the Irish Wheelchair Association have been hit by this imposition.

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

Bernard Durkan: Every person going to collect unemployment assistance and benefit, those who have been recently unemployed, will be hit by this measure. The poor Greens are going to make everyone else equally poor and irrelevant.