Results 20,361-20,380 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: What about the fraud in the banks?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Punish the people at the bottom of the line.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is the Government that is putting its hand in the pockets of the unfortunate, the disabled and the sick, the unemployed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy wants to make us like a police state. That is what they used to do in eastern Europe once upon a time. The Berlin Wall was taken down because of that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Does the Deputy want the Berlin Wall to go up here?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Provided their constitutional rights are upheld.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: A 300% increase in what? There has been a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Fianna Fáil took it out of the hand of the child in the cradle. Government Deputies should be ashamed of themselves.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: He brought in 20% of an increase. If Deputy Kennedy knew his history he would know that. The Deputy knows nothing about recent history, never mind past history.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kennedy does not have a record here, he should be ashamed of what he just said.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: When there was a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: There was â¬600,000 of a good luck gift for the bankers while the ordinary pleb was punished.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We now have a mathematician over there.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Mathematics is certainly not his Government's chosen subject.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise. He has upset the people of this country as well as me.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Government created that problem when it bought a general election. It gave medical cards to old people to buy a general election. The Government Deputies stood up at the budget and applauded. There was a standing ovation for the Minister last year and the year before. What for? They should, "Give us more, give us more".
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That unfortunate man is deluding himself and everybody else. He is now boasting about how well he has done. This is outrageous.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I do mean it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.