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- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Let us not be here today saying in any way, shape or form that we welcome any element of the Bill.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I know that the truth might hurt. All I am asking my colleagues opposite, particularly Senators in the Labour Party and the Minister, is how they would respond to the Bill and proposed cuts if they were in opposition.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: For the people that the Government claims to represent-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Do the Members opposite really believe that is fair to abolish the bereavement grant and telephone allowance and cut maternity benefit?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: The provisions have been dressed up as changing from a passive system to an active system of social welfare. That is patently not true. I welcome the debate and hope that the Minister will take on board some of the comments made. Let my colleagues opposite remember that how they vote on the Bill today will be remembered and the people will remind them of it at the next available opportunity.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I know my colleagues do not like hearing this but I ask them to remember what they promised before the last general election. Please remember what was promised in the programme for Government.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Remember what was promised in the programme for Government. Remember the list of cuts that my colleagues opposite brought forward and are passing again today that followed a disgraceful Social Welfare Bill last year.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Do the Senators remember last year's Social Welfare Bill and the cut to the respite care grant? Do they remember what they did last year? Do they remember cutting the telephone allowance last year?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: So the Government Senators do not like hearing the truth.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: It is very difficult.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I am.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I have confined myself to the Bill but I stated a follow-on effect. Let us not come in here-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I know the Senator does not like hearing the truth.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: All I am asking the Senators to do, particularly our Labour Party colleagues opposite, who are apparently champions of the vulnerable and the needy, is to look at what they have done and what they are going to do today.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Then leave.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: Get up and leave.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: I do not care whether the Senator leaves or not.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: These are the facts. What the Government Senators are voting on today will impact on people who need the State's support. All of their promises and stances made while in opposition mean nothing and we have further proof today that they mean nothing. During the debate the Minister gave a commitment to revisit some of these areas and to examine activation measures. She has done so and I...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)
Darragh O'Brien: They were left to enjoy-----