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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister for Social Protection is taking €30 million from maternity benefit.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach said there was no change in policy.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: They will not be able to ring the Minister's office with the phones taken off them.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Minister seriously claiming that a reduction of €290 million is not a cut?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Yet the Minister has taken away paternity benefit.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I would not depend on that.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I thought the real Opposition would not get any opportunity to oppose these measures, such is the level of opposition from within the Government side.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that. I am pleased that the Taoiseach has effectively given in to the pressure to retain the 9% VAT rate on tourism-related products. That is beneficial and helpful and I am pleased that the Minister has listened to the industry. However, in what the Minister is doing, there is an element of the three-card trick. He is also putting a greater burden on the Irish pub trade. The...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The budget seeks to give the impression that the Government is doing something wonderful for the tourism sector in its efforts to attract tourists to the country - which is the case - while on the other hand limiting the capacity of the Department of the Taoiseach and Fáilte Ireland to market the country because funding of €30 million has been taken away. The sector which has the...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: We know the Taoiseach does not debate and we would not expect it.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I voted against the raid on the pension fund.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I have a list of things that the Tánaiste was against.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The Government has done a reasonably good job at presenting the budget in a manner that seems to indicate there is no pain, no cuts, no new taxes, that it is all very amicable. We were told the need for an adjustment was a tough decision but subsequent detail was very scant. We were informed by the Minister for Social Protection that the general scheme remained the same with no increases on...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Yes. In order to be fair and honest, the pain must be shared. However, for the past number of budgets this Government has been targeting a cohort that is not the centre of media attention and these individuals are being affected in a dramatic way. I refer in particular to young mothers. The combined cut has a very significant hit on the income of mothers. Giving them free GP care is a...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: The money was supposed to be used on an annual basis for the sports capital programme, but for the past couple of years the Government has taken the money from the national lottery and put it into the Exchequer fund. The Government is proposing to have a new sports capital fund with the up-front payment but it will not come on an annual basis. I fail to see the sense in what is being done....

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: I do.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: There are approximately 2 million. I am in touch with my constituents and I know people who are under immense pressure. There is a belief that there are 70,000 medical cards sitting on mantlepieces waiting to be used in the event that somebody becomes ill. Much of that fat has been taken from the system over the last number of years.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: Medical cards are presented because of means, but perhaps the Minister represents a more privileged part of the country than I do.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: If the litmus test of the difficulties faced by citizens of this State is my constituency office or that of a colleague, I assure the Minister that the saving of €135 million that is being talked about by the Minister for Health cannot be achieved through efficiencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Aviation Services and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2013: Discussion (16 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: As the committee has a great deal of information on the authority, perhaps Mr. Pakey might proceed directly to the part of his presentation that deals primarily with the Bill. I thank him for the other detail he has made available. We have a tight schedule, as a vote may be called in the Dáil shortly.