Results 2,041-2,060 of 3,200 for speaker:Pádraic McCormack
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: The Minister of State and his colleagues will find out what it is like soon enough.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Bicycles.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: This budget was brought forward by two months. It was a rush job and, like all rush jobs or rushed legislation, it turned out very badly. It is clearly a budget drawn up by civil servants. The Minister who presented it clearly did not understand it or its implications. I will cite some of the Minister's indecisive waffle. About the public sector pay bill he said others might want to...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: My party would switch off the life support machine for the decentralisation programme, which the Government is still pursuing. We would eliminate 30 quangos and their annual budget of â¬50 million as well as incentivise research and development, upskilling and retraining programmes. We would double support for distressed home owners and increase the winter fuel allowance by 50%. That is...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: That is what we spelled out before the budget, which proves we were constructive in this matter.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: What about home poverty?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: I did, but the Minister of State was not listening.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: On a point of order, a Chathaoirlighââ
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Will the Minister give way because he has told an untruth?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: It is an untruth and I want him to correct it.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: I set out the Fine Gael policy and what we would do but the Minister of State has not been listening to the debate. He walked into the Chamber with a prepared script.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: I ask the Minister of State to give way for an intervention.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Will the Minister of State give way for an intervention?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Will Deputy Brady give way for an intervention?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: I will not let any Minister away with telling an untruth.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Power, does not know what he was talking about. He did not talk about the budget until the end of his contribution.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Spending on welfare is only 3%.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: Deputy Brady never mentioned the pensioners at all.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: People will have to pay â¬12 to leave from Cork Airport too.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)
Pádraic McCormack: It costs â¬1 million to store them.