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EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Only those who can afford it.

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: You should not talk about misleading people.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Yes.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: I will.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: The Acting Chairman might tell me when I have a minute or so remaining. I thank him for allowing Deputy Doherty to continue. Well done to my colleague. He was on a flow. Here we go again in the wrong direction. The Bill is supposed to restructure the banks. Sinn Féin would support that 100%, but the Bill is only partly about restructuring the banks, in that it has more to do with...

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Deputy O'Keeffe is right.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: I agree entirely with the sentiment of the amendment. I do not know how the Minister thinks the President can sign the Bill into law without referring it to the Supreme Court or at least consulting with the Council of State. There will be trouble for this Bill in its current state. I hope there is because I do not want to see legislation passed which incorporates the package from the IMF...

National Minimum Wage: Motion (Resumed) (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Well done. Good stuff.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister took umbrage at the suggestion.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Exactly.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: When summing up, perhaps the Minister will advise us-----

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: ------how he proposes to deal with the problem of too much debt, of which we have too much in this State because the Minister has linked private debt in the banks with State debt. The Minister has joined the two and made the taxpayer responsible for it. The Minister proposes to deal with our debt by linking bank debt to sovereign debt.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Does the Minister think that will work? Where is the logic in that? Does the Minister believe that, even on a good day, we have the economic base to produce the revenue to make that happen? If the Minister examines his Department's figures he will see that revenue streams are dropping rather than increasing. Before us is the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010. Where are the...

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: I am most anxious to hear from the Minister.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: I will be honest with the Minister.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: I can assure him that I do not mean to be personal. However, the decisions made by this Government over the past two years have not been good. The Government has spent the past two years dealing with the banks and ignoring the real economy.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: It is now grabbing money from low income families and reducing the minimum wage, which is dreadful. Perhaps the Minister will deal in a straightforward fashion with some of the points I have made.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Is there any chance of extending the debate by an hour? Can the Minister accede to an additional hour to allow him to reply?

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (15 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of suicides there have been each year since Larium was first used by the Defence Forces; the number of these victims who were either taking or had taken Larium in the past, and if in the past, when they had last taken Larium; and the number of these suicides where the victims had taken Larium that were reported to the Irish Medicines...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (16 Dec 2010)

Arthur Morgan: Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the cuts to the capital budget for education which will see a 9% cut for primary schools and a 20% cut for post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47677/10]