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Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: That is not what the Minister of State was saying a few months ago. A different story was being told to get the people to buy into it.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: That is not what the Minister of State was saying when he was trying to get members of the Green Party to come onside.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: When the Government was trying to get the members of the Green Party to come onside, it said there would be all sorts of social dividends. I kept hearing the phrase "social dividends".

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I am also very surprised by the Minister of State.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: He is misleading the House, given what he said three months ago and what he is saying now.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: They should stop using the using the cover of this credit institutions scheme to support lending to the economy when it is clearly not true.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I know. I am sorry but very limited time has been given to discuss this motion.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: No.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Vótail.

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: When listening yesterday to the Budget Statement by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, an image came to mind of Frank Kelly who played Fr. Jack in the comedy series "Father Ted". He was known for using only three words during the course of the programme - "feck," "arse" and "drink." This budget should be called the Fr. Jack budget. The first word could refer to the public...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: It is the Taoiseach's new office.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Statements (10 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: It is his office.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Listen to that now.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I welcome Senator Ó Brolcháin to the House but until we have worked out what his temperament is, we will not rile him in case we experience a linguistic outburst similar to that in the Lower House last Friday.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I second the proposed amendment to the Order of Business. The population is concerned that the Government has gone soft on crime and its causes. Hardened and petty criminals are not fearful that the Government will do something serious to restrict their activities, which is why the country is up in arms about what is happening. The media are wrong when they criticise the House for not being...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Why is that? Why are we in crisis?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Public health nurses cannot even call to the people they are supposed to see.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: To continue where Senator O'Toole finished in regard to the Minister's comments on Sunday night, in reality the Minister has no plan or strategy so this is replaced with hubris, with big man talk from Ministers, with each one sending out a different message depending on which part of the country they are interviewed in and which Minister is being interviewed. Basically, nobody has a clue...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I move: That Seanad Éireann: noting that: the Budget forecasts a further cut in employment levels of 65,000 in 2010, after the estimated fall of 165,000 this year; the OECD, the European Commission and the IMF have concluded that, after the end of the debt-fuelled property and public spending bubbles, a return to the export-led economic growth of the 1990s is the only route for Ireland out...