Results 281-300 of 7,447 for speaker:John Brady
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Initiatives (2 Nov 2016)
John Brady: 437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to extend the Leap card, currently used by rail and DART passengers, to those travelling by bus, namely to Bus Éireann passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32852/16]
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (3 Nov 2016)
John Brady: The programme for Government commits to targeted improvements in welfare payments for the elderly, people with disabilities, the sick and carers, among others. Information recently received by Sinn Féin indicates that at the end of September, waiting lists for people in receipt of social welfare have increased across the board. For example, the wait for carer's allowance has increased...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (3 Nov 2016)
John Brady: What about waiting times?
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (3 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Waiting times are escalating, however.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (3 Nov 2016)
John Brady: 215. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the new affordable child care scheme announced in budget 2017 ignores professional child minders as is the choice made by many parents for their children as the best child care option as opposed to a crèche setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33080/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (3 Nov 2016)
John Brady: 216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the new affordable child care scheme is permissible under the Constitution which pledges to hold the family at its core when the new scheme favours a centre-based scheme with no regard for the parent's choice for a child minder over a crèche setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33081/16]
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: It is Westminster controlled.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Maybe Fianna Fáil would work with us to end Westminster control of that system.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Perhaps Fianna Fáil would work with us to have control over it handed back to the Assembly instead of-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: The Deputy has just justified it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Fianna Fáil started it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: No, I will take the full 30 minutes. Let me just say that I will not take lectures from a Deputy who is a member of the party that brought this country to its knees. Contrary to the spin-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Yes, spin. He comes in here and states that his party lifted all of social welfare recipients out of the poverty trap, even if it was, to use his words, marginally. I will read the list of cuts for the record of the House. Fianna Fáil, the partitionist party, states that the Six Counties is not part of this country, so not only is he a hypocrite, he is also a member of a partitionist...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: It cut the minimum wage. It cut maternity benefit and the student support grant.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: It introduced prescription charges. It cut carer's allowance and carer's benefit.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: It removed the Christmas bonus, reduced rent supplement, closed the back to work allowance for new recipients-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: -----and cut child benefit.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Contrary to lifting social welfare recipients out of the poverty trap-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Contrary to the spin that Fianna Fáil lifted social welfare recipients out of the poverty trap, it compounded the poverty further and deeper. Deputy O'Dea is correct that there was a presentation on lone parents' matters. He knows that 22.1% of lone parents, which is one of the groups over which he cries crocodile tears in this House, live in a constant state of poverty, but that is...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I set that out to set the record straight. After the budget, during a Prime Time debate, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, listed all of the similarities between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. He stated that they both shared common policy objectives, that they both come from much the same background and that they are both supported by much the same people across the country.