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Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The dramatic decrease in the level of consumer confidence is one of the issues we have been hearing about over recent months. It represents one of the reasons the Government finances are in such difficulty. I cannot understand why the Government has decided to increase VAT by 0.5%. The Minister gave little away in her speech, but €208 million is to be taken every year from an area that...

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: And had bought a new house just last week.

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Tánaiste's bike will not be safe.

Financial Resolution No. 8: Excise Duty (Betting Tax) (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Will the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, be cycling the back-streets of Limerick?

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34968/08]

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: What are the details of the tax relief package for cycling to work?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, is the fourth Minister of State with responsibility for public works to fail to do something about flooding in Arklow.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: That does not say much for Cabinet confidentiality.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Cabinet confidentiality must not have been too strong.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: It makes a change from policy being made on the bicycle.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: It has a good sting.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Is that 12 minutes for me?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (16 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: This Government makes Houdini look like a one stroke banjo player. How it could turn a surplus of €3 billion into a deficit of €16 billion over a few short years is nothing short of remarkable. Perhaps when the Government Deputies, Fianna Fáil, the Green Party, the Progressive Democrats and others, were giving a standing ovation to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, it may...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: I wish to share time with Deputy Bernard J. Durkan.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The bank guarantee stabilises liquidity. The scheme outlines in part what the guarantee is and places certain requirements on the financial institutions that participate in it. Fine Gael supported the guarantee and by extension will probably support this scheme because the country needs a banking system. Without the guarantee, we may not have had one today. However, we are taking a leap of...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The duty has gone up from 30 cent to 50 cent per cheque.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: The Fianna Fáil figures are shaky too.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Read the budget.

Written Answers — Personal Advocacy Service: Personal Advocacy Service (21 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a personal advocacy service for persons with a disability will be put in place; the progress to date on appointments to the personal advocacy service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34842/08]

Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Billy Timmins: I have great pleasure in supporting the motion. The Government has spent a political generation flinging money at every problem. The only decision it had to make was how much. As a result, there is nothing in the coffers and the Government cannot tell right from wrong, good from bad, as evidenced by the budget it produced. Many Government Deputies and, in particular, the two Ministers of...