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Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----today the Government has added to it. Tá daoine ina shuí sa bhaile a thug tacaíocht do bhur gcuid páirtithe. Tá siad ag éisteacht leis an gcáinfhaisnéis seo. D'éist siad leis an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire, an Teachta Howlin, inné. Tá said ag iarraidh cén difríocht a rinne an toghchán i mí Feabhra seo caite. Is cinnte gur tháinig athrú ar na páirtithe sa rialtas,...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Had Sinn Féin not put these payments on the agenda, sitting Deputies would still be in receipt of them. The Taoiseach did not go after the high earners in this budget because he and his colleagues are the high earners. Times are tough but they are not tough for the Government or its political cronies.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Tell me, Taoiseach, riddle me this-----

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----what happened to those who caused the crisis? What does the budget say to them - the bankers, the developers and the politicians who were there at the time of the crash? Where is the fairness in the budget for them? We know that 22 of the top 50 Anglo Irish executives who were there at the time of the collapse are still in their positions. Nineteen of them earn more than €175,000 a...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: While the Government is increasing taxes on ordinary working families, Ministers, junior Ministers and officeholders are still able to claim an unvouched tax write-down of up to €3,500 to have their laundry done when they stay in Dublin hotels.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: That is the type of fairness the Government wants to introduce in this budget. If this is the Taoiseach's and the Minister's idea of fairness, it is a very skewed sense of fairness. What was fair about the cuts yesterday?

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: They were of the most vicious nature. The Government went after children, the disabled, lone parents, widows and carers. These were its five target groups. It spun a line about protecting social welfare payments – about not cutting the basic unemployment rate. All the while the Government was cutting the extra child benefit rates, multiple birth grants, abolishing disability benefits...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: We demand that €40 million back. We will give them a calculator at Christmas or maybe they are just continuing with the Kevin Cardiff school of economics with €3.6 billion here and €40 million in health cuts there; sure what the hell; it does not make a difference.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: There are cuts of €1.9 billion across these three areas and these were the front-line services the Government was supposed to protect. Tá gach páirtí istigh anseo ag rá go bhfuil siad i bhfabhar na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge. Ní leor briathra breátha agus caint gan ghníomh. Tá sé rísholéir anois nach bhfuil ar siúl ag an Rialtas ach cur i gcéill agus bréaga. Tá gearradh...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The reckless economic policies pursued by Fianna Fáil during the boom created the economic crisis. The years of austerity and bank bailouts that it followed deepened the crisis. Now the continuation of these same policies by Fine Gael and the Labour Party will only serve to make matters worse. Across the country people will have watched the Minister deliver his budget speech today and...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: This would create a minimum of 60,000 jobs and potentially save up to 100,000 others. Our approach to economic recovery is far more comprehensive than the Government's deficit focus strategy. The Government believes it can cut its way out of the recession, but this was tried by Fianna Fáil and it completely and utterly failed; €20.6 billion of unfair taxes and cuts later, has the...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Our measures are fair, would be non-deflationary and the most likely to work.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The domestic economy is on its knees. People's spending power has been demolished and today the Government has added to the mess by cutting it more. Less money in people's pockets means less money in tills, and less money in tills means fewer jobs. It is a vicious cycle, which is why we proposed measures such as a wealth tax, a third rate of income tax on earned income over €100,000 and...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I will remind him.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Point 1 was a €7 billion stimulus package to create 100,000 jobs. The Labour Party had a similar plan.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Today 444,000 people are on the live register, which is 9,500 more than when the Government took office. We cannot count all the people who have emigrated or those who are not eligible for welfare assistance such as the self-employed, for whom no safety net is provided.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach seems to think emigration is a safety valve for unemployment. I know it is hard to take-----

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----but if he listens, he might learn something. A total of 54,000 have emigrated since he took office. I want to tell him what emigration is really like. Emigration will mean empty chairs at the dinner table this Christmas; it means grandparents never seeing their grandchildren and families and communities being devastated. Has the Taoiseach walked through any of our third level...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Has he? Has he found a student who believes emigration is not part of his or her future? He will be hard-pressed to find a student who does not believe this.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: How does the Taoiseach tell the parents of these children the reason he is driving them out of the State and he has prioritised private bank bondholders over the future of Irish schoolchildren? Tá a fhios ag an Taoiseach nach dtiocfaidh cuid mhór de na daoine seo ar ais go dtí an tír seo choíche. Ní bheidh an deis sin acu. Tá daoine inniu sna Stáit Aontaithe, san Astráil agus i...