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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: This is a guillotine.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The smile has gone from the faces of Fianna Fáil members now.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is happening.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is happening.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: That is the key point.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I will be brief because we have debated these matters at length on the Order of Business and the Social Welfare Bill 2010. Senator Ó Brolcháin hit the nail on the head. We must give people incentives to work. The shrinking gap between social welfare and the minimum wage means there is no incentive for people to get off the dole and their medical cards to join the workforce on a wage of...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What is the incentive?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is crazy.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We have.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I refer to the stuffing of State boards with political appointees. It is a thing of the past. The Leader will say that in the last Fine Gael-Labour Party Government some 100 people were appointed.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The figure is 107. Whatever happened in the past, it does not necessarily mean it was right. We should have new politics and we should start with reform. What is being proposed is old politics. The stuffing of State boards with political appointees and hacks, without any scrutiny, should be a thing of the past. Perhaps my proposal will fall on deaf ears but I ask that these appointments...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Ban the practice then.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2010 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] - Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Into a cul-de-sac.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Corner boys.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about the 450,000 who are on the dole?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Thank you.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We have no problem at all in using electronic means. We are wondering why the electronic means were not used already for fingerprinting machines to be used in the Garda immigration bureau. That was meant to happen four years ago. We are all in favour of using electronic means in order to combat fraud in particular in the social welfare system. We support such efforts but perhaps the...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The matter is relevant to the amendment as we are speaking about electronic means. The Minister mentioned it himself in discussing signature pads.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: There is talk that a number of people have various PPS numbers, with people of the same identity having two, three or four numbers. If they get a card and sign on for one number, what is preventing such people from using the same signature for several PPS numbers? The signatures will match the numbers so how will people with various numbers be found out?