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Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should be quiet.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: People have been vilified in this country in order to create an atmosphere where wages can be driven down. That is what the agenda is about and we heard about it tonight.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Drive it down.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: They are the same people we expect to serve us on Monday morning with a smile on their faces.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: That is not a point of order so the Deputy should sit down. He is here long enough to know what is a point of order.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: They are the same people who we expect to serve us on Monday morning with a smile on their faces, whether it is in the accident and emergency department, on our buses, the gardaí if something happens to us or if people rescue us from our top window when a house floods. Those people will not have a smile on their face on Monday morning and they will be dead right. They have been at the...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: These are the same people we expect to help those with disabilities. They are suffering cuts as well. It is a shameful budget. There are tax exiles, tax fugitives and other tax dodgers, and in addition we have people in this country who made large sums of money but are not paying their taxes. There are people in banks that we now control and they are unfortunate enough to have to survive...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should be quiet. The Green Party is irrelevant.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: That is agreed.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy has one minute left.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Durkan, please.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Durkan, please.

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used for each year from 1998 to date in 2009; the number of such cases in which prosecutions for murder were initiated; the number of such cases in which convictions were secured; if he is satisfied with the level of detection and conviction in such cases; and if he will...

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (10 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quantity and values of seizures of heroin, cocaine, cannabis and other drugs within the State during 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; the proportion of the overall flow of drugs into here believed to be represented by these seizures; the new initiatives he is planning to control the flow of illegal drugs into here; and...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Gogarty should wash out his mouth.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: That is not true.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: There is.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: I refer to widows under 66 years. It has always astonished me that somebody who finds herself a widow at a young age, in particular if she has children, does not get secondary benefits. Secondary benefits would be a huge advantage. For most women or, indeed, men with two or three children who find themselves in this situation, child care is not an option nor is going out to work until the...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government will in its foot. It is in control of nothing. This is ridiculous.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (15 Dec 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on plans for a reported general election in Sri Lanka in January 2010; if the European Union proposes to send observers for this election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46859/09]