Results 25,081-25,100 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: When will they give up that line?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: When the Government leaves.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: So have I.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Minister should not worry, I will.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Fianna Fáil has pencilled in its figures for the past ten years.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: From here on in we will.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The European Union did not accept the growth figure.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: It is not the system we need to change, but the people in government.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I thought that was the Fianna Fáil philosophy.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I would love to be a fly on the wall when that discussion takes place.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: We need to change the Government.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: It should.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle would not agree with that description.
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: One of the things that was heralded in the approach to the budget was that it would be tough but fair; that is what everybody felt, but unfortunately that is not what we got. Whatever the reasons and regardless of whether we like it many people are waking up to the fact that it is a sneaky and deceptive budget that will show up many cuts people have not yet seen. For example the Government...
- Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The Taoiseach got to make a longer speech. He said the Government was helping the unemployed, which I am glad to hear. I would hate to see what the Government might do to them if it was hindering the unemployed because it is attacking them. It has become fashionable to point to the unemployed as the cause of the problem and claim there is social welfare fraud. On a daily basis the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will facilitate an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46614/10]
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: The most obvious lack in the Social Welfare Bill and the budget in general is that of fairness. In the two and half years since this Government came into office, members of the general public have expressed to us at every level that they realise there is a problem in the country and that sacrifices must be made. All they want is that it be done fairly. If it is done fairly, people will...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I must tell the Minister that it does.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: It does happen and the Minister is wrong. I am surprised at you in this respect.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Bernard Durkan: I did not interrupt the Minister.