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Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: They are not the people who owe us €13 billion.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is about companies paying fair taxation.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There are no wage increases for them.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What about the increase in the Taoiseach's pay?

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is, of course, by €40,000 over two years.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Absolutely, on behalf of the people.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Only on the people who can afford to pay it.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, I would like to ask the Acting Leader to extend the time available for this debate so that all Senators who are present and who wish to make a contribution can do so and so that the Minister will have ample time to respond.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, I would ask that the Leader be called back to the House so that -----

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, we have done this on many occasions in the past when time has been added for debate. There are -----

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, I would like to note that it is very unfair that all Senators were not allowed to speak on a very important day. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is the most important debate of the year and it is unfair that Senators are excluded, no matter where they come from.

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé an-bhuíoch duit, a Chathaoirligh, faoi dhá nóiméad a thabhairt dom. The tax and spend measures in the budget today are continuing the same failed housing policies that have been mentioned before. The first-time buyer's scheme will drive up prices. Subsidies for private landlords are almost the same as funding for real social housing, with as much being...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It was Senator McDowell who used the phrase "wealthy barristers". Given that there are those who are very much trying to make ends meet on the minimum wage, on zero-hour contracts or in precarious jobs, such as teachers may have precarious contracts, gardaí and so forth, it is ironic to hear others doing the ochón ochón for those who earn quite well. Any elements where we ask...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Welfare Services (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá mé an-bhuíoch dó as ucht an am a thógáil, cé go bhfuil sé an-ghnóthach ag an aimsir seo. I am returning to an issue I raised previously with the Minister's predecessor regarding the social welfare offices that were closed in rural areas and in the Connemara area in particular. As the Minister, Deputy Leo...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Welfare Services (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Nach maith é go bhfuil a fhios agat. I suppose using the frame of a business model in respect of people engaged in employment services indicates the type of language that a client of a State agency now becomes a customer of the State agency. My concern is the use of that type of language. I am unhappy with the cutbacks that have happened in the ENP because even with the figures...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé ag ardú ceiste ar maidin atá thar a bheith tromchúiseach. A number of months ago a man in Ballinasloe was woken up by gardaí coming to his door. They took him out of his bed and brought him to prison in Dublin. Subsequently, when this was being challenged in the High Court, the Garda National Immigration Bureau backed out of the case. The man was...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That has been done.