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Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Amendment No. 1 was tabled by me with the Sinn Féin Senators.

Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Did the Sinn Féin Senators receive notification that the amendments are out of order?

Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I just wish to clarify the situation.

Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I second the amendment. To follow on from what Senator Reilly said, perhaps the Minister of State could clarify that the Bill precludes someone who previously worked in a credit union from serving in another one. Today, I received a specific example of that. One of the directors of a credit union who was unemployed managed to secure a position with another credit union. He had been a...

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: All of us understand this is an important week for the Seanad. I welcome that the debate on the Social Welfare Bill 2012 is scheduled over three days. It is important that the legislation is debated properly in this House. The Seanad will have more time to debate the Bill than was the case in the Dáil. I hope we will have a reasoned debate and that people will listen to the arguments put...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator is not supposed to refer to somebody not in the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: He will.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: He should listen to us more often. We will dig him out of that hole.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I would love to go with the Minister the next time.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister should stop raising this comparison. It is not relevant.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I wish to raise a point of order.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Would it not be more appropriate for the Minister to stick to the terms of the Bill which she is introducing?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister for coming before the House to introduce the Social Welfare Bill. As was the case last year, I wish to begin by stating that - like every one of her predecessors in the Department of Social Protection - she has a difficult job. My colleagues and I fully acknowledge that fact. I am quite disappointed by some of what the Minister said. I do not believe that carers,...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister indicated that she has received a vast number of representations from carers' organisations, disability groups, families and charities such as Barnardos. In that context, we are living in the here and now. I do not want to waste the eight minutes available to me. However, I wish to state that I will stand over the introduction of the respite care grant by Fianna Fáil in 1999....

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should just stop and listen for a moment. The matters to which I refer are ones over which I will stand. It must be stated, however, that people outside the House and I are concerned about what the Minister is doing now. There is one positive I will take from what the Minister said, namely, that she is going to bring forward the expert report relating to how we can manage child...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I did not interrupt the Minister and she will have the opportunity to respond. I was very surprised by her comments in this regard. I will not refer to the promises the Minister and her colleagues made either during the general election campaign or in the programme for Government. I will merely ask her one question. If a member of a party other than hers had introduced a Social Welfare...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That is a core payment in my view but the Minister does not believe it is. A respite care grant is a core payment, particularly for the 5,000 families who receive the respite care grant and get no further assistance from the State. If we are to talk about finance, the economy and the banks, about which the Minister spoke at length in her contribution, I would point out that she did not...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Who goaded Senator Whelan?