Results 2,521-2,540 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: On a point of order, no Minister has expanded on what the Minister of State is saying, that the figures are mythical or do not stand up to scrutiny.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: These are just words thrown out but they do not stand up to scrutiny. No one on the Government side has said that. My apologies, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: The Minister of State is going back on what he said.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: That is a different explanation from what the Minister of State said earlier.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: The Minister of State is welcome to interrupt me.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: That is what the Government was telling the people.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: We were not expecting the Senator to want so much information.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: The Senator has not forgotten her roots.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: Ray MacSharry was not too keen on Charlie McCreevy and Bertie Ahern is not too keen on the Taoiseach. The Senator's side is good at internal fighting itself.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: Considering the mess the Government has made of the country, the Senator has a fair cheek. It has banjaxed the country.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: The Senator has a fair cheek.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: The Government has banjaxed the country and this is the rubbish she is coming out with.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: I apologise. I will respond in time to that rubbish the Senator has spoken after banjaxing the country herself.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: At long last.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: It did in its eyeball.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: I had not received the news item from the RTE website before I made my contribution that David Begg has said there is no prospect of reinstating social partnership talks, a regrettable prospect. I wonder if it was the same obtuse behaviour by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance that collapsed the talks that I saw tonight from Senator O'Malley who is completely deluded in refusing to...
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: It is unbelievable. Government Senators making their contributions tonight have all blinded themselves to the fact that they have landed this country in an unmerciful stew. To get ourselves out of this mess, there is a need to restore the trust of a huge sector of society that is completely alienated. There is a serious need for the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance to restore that...
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: Senator O'Malley throws out these things and there is not much sense in what she says. Perhaps Ministers do not think too much about it either.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: A total of â¬54 billion is 33% of GDP. That is not petty cash that was used to stabilise the banks.
- Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)
Liam Twomey: Neither is the â¬400 million guarantee given to the banks. We are paying a fortune for what Senator O'Malley calls stabilising the banking system. A banking system may be stabilised but it is doing nothing to restore credit flow into the Irish economy to create and maintain jobs and to make this economy grow.