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Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government is not doing that.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: We always do.

Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the right to join trade unions includes a right to bargain collectively, and the Government has committed to reform legislation on workers' rights to allow that. The Taoiseach knows that now more than at any other time workers must have their rights to collective bargaining enshrined in law and protected. Does the Government remain committed...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Shame.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Government could have brought forward a fair budget. This, however, was not a fair budget. Tá a fhios ag an Taoiseach nach raibh sé deacair na roghanna cearta a dhéanamh. Rinne an Rialtas na roghanna míchearta arís, áfach. Cén fáth? Sinn Féin has shown how in our fully costed alternative budget, yet the Taoiseach chose to ignore this....

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I sat here in complete silence and listened to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Leader of Fianna Fáil. The other Deputies may not like what I am saying but they should at least listen. I can say as someone who comes from the North that there is no property tax there. Sin é. The Deputy is telling fibs.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Many families in the State will not be able to pay this tax. I am putting the Taoiseach on notice that from today, Sinn Féin will be actively campaigning to resist the introduction of this unfair tax on the family home. It is not yet law and it can be stopped. Sinn Féin has an alternative that is fair, namely, a wealth tax that is levied on the property of the wealthy. The...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Under the proposal from the Labour Party and Fine Gael, child benefit cuts of €10 for the first and second child, €18 for the third child and €20 for the fourth and following children, will be introduced.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: This means a family of four children will be down €58 per month in child benefit cuts alone and a family of 6 children will be down €98. That is a lot of money and will have a crippling effect on families dependent on it. Children and the young families have borne the brunt of the budget. Less than one month since the passage of the children’s referendum, the reality of...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Bhuel, éist agus foghlaim. The Taoiseach has cut €325 from more than 77,000 families. Some 20,000 of those families receive no other support from the State for providing full-time care for a family member. How low can one get? That is scandalous and shameful and certainly not a fair measure in a budget that was trumpeted as fair. Before the last general election, Labour and...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Where, exactly, is the Government taking us and what are the social consequences of the Government's austerity policies? The Irish League of Credit Unions revealed several months ago that the number of people who are left with €100 or less at the end of each month has risen to over 1.8 million. Where will these citizens find the money for the Taoiseach's family home tax or to deal...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: There are 160 retired bankers from the covered institutions who are receiving annual pension payments in excess of €100,000 per year.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Many of these are not even 70 years old? Seán Fitzpatrick is not 70 and neither is Brian Goggin, Eugene Sheehy or Colm Doherty.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: What of the former Ministers who bailed out these bankers? Former taoisigh are living the high life on lavish pensions while ordinary people bear the brunt of the crisis they created. There was no impediment to cutting the pay of bankers, Ministers, special advisers or the Taoiseach himself in the budget. The Government did not do that. There was no impediment to cutting bankers' pay.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have much to talk about but this is my time to say something. Sinn Féin presented the Government with legislation last month that would enable the State to claw back a large amount of the money paid to bankers without breaking any contracts, merely by applying a levy on excess payments. The Taoiseach did not...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: It is more in sadness than in anger that I must say the Taoiseach just does not get it. The budget is all about the Fine Gael Party and the Labour Party. It tells us everything we need to know about the two parties. There is huge anger among the people about the cuts and the new taxes the Government has introduced to target citizens who are unable to pay. It is not that they will not pay,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: Those listening to the Taoiseach will not be encouraged that he has a sense of their plight. Ministers take home over €3,000 a week. The Government has broken the cap for special advisers and refuses to consider alternatives. If I was to bring in the woman who spoke last night and she was to plead with the Taoiseach to reverse this cut, would he do it? On her behalf, I ask him to...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: I never thought the Taoiseach would make me laugh on this day, but his stupid remark about the Northern Bank in response to a serious question made me laugh. Second, he referred to events in my life and women. That is below him and diminishes the office he holds. Sinn Féin Members and I are here with a mandate. We have been mandated to raise the issues we are raising. The Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The difficult choice is to tackle the powerful elements. However, it is the interests of the more powerful that the Taoiseach's party acts and - shame on it - that increasingly the Labour Party acts. I noted the Taoiseach's defence of the Labour Party. I asked him a question. I asked him if he would listen to the woman who spoke at last night's public meeting in Dundalk if she was standing...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)

Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach should do something about it.