Results 20,341-20,360 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy quoting Shaw will be of major assistance to the unemployed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I have read his work.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is a pity Shaw was not around in recent years.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: He rode around on a horse.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Yes in Inchydoney.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If Fianna Fáil is brave enough to go to Inchydoney again next year I am sure that Fr. Healy will be happy to address it but with a different admonition. It is with sadness that we address this House tonight in these circumstances. I bear no malice toward the people on the Government side. I have known them all since they came into this House. They are all decent people and I know that...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is impossible to say all the things that one has to say at this time about the carers and people with special needs and the domiciliary care applicants. Somebody said that allowance was not interfered with. God love that person. It is nearly impossible to qualify for it as we all know from dealing with such cases. What message have we given to the young unemployed? We tell them to go...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We would not know they were in Government at all.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Unless the Deputy and his colleagues join something very shortly, I am afraid the dole queue is staring them in the face.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Please, Deputy Durkan. Allow Deputy Kennedy to continue.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is the Deputy's party that is in Government.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is an appalling thing to say. There are no jobs for them and the Government took away half their incomes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If the Government created employment for them, they would not be at home doing nothing.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Where are the places for them?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I know what places the Deputy has in mind.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: A sad fact.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is a sad situation.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I would be inclined to take any place after hearing what Deputy Kennedy just said. It is a sad reflection on this Government and its backbenchers.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise. He is upsetting me again.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If there was a bench Deputy Kennedy could go to, I would advise him to go to it fairly soon.