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Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The passing of the Lisbon treaty referendum and the implementation of the new treaty provisions on 1 December has fundamentally transformed the relationship of this Parliament with the other 26 parliaments in the EU, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. It is a dramatic and fundamental constitutional change. I understand the reason this long and extensive motion, which I...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: He will not get an answer.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Could anybody to any worse?

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I have been in the House for quite some time and I have listened to various speeches on various occasions in good times and in bad. One word was missing from yesterday's speech by the Minister for Finance and this morning's speech by the Taoiseach. It is a simple Anglo-Saxon word and it is the word "sorry". Not once has Fianna Fáil said to itself, to the nation or to the Members of this...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: International surveys also show that equal societies are healthier societies and are more competitive. Consider the competitive economies in Finland and Scandinavia. Yes, they are high-tax economies and that is their choice. However, they are also much fairer societies and are more deeply competitive than ours. I want to say to Fianna Fáil that the exercise in censorship being undertaken...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: What exactly is the impact of this? Why has the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, decided to leave the primary and secondary sectors relatively untouched but to impose a 4% cut on the third level sector? We hear speeches about the smart economy, the knowledge economy, investing in third level education and trying to get a cohort of those coming out of secondary...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I find it hard to reconcile what the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, stated yesterday with what I saw in the newspapers some weeks ago about the President of this Republic attending a function hosted by a tax fugitive. What type of message on citizenship did that send out?

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We all could provide charities of our choice if we had designer taxes. That is outrageous.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Absolutely. They are not tax exiles, they are tax fugitives.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: When we see the legislation, and I note the presence in the Chamber of a senior official of the Department of Finance, I will invite the Department to consider the following because it will be very interesting to see how the detail of that provision is written. It will be hard to impose and assess. I suggest the simple additional requirement to the legislation that any tax fugitives who...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: To the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Members present I state that I know they will not hold an election soon but they could start by saying they are sorry that they screwed up, that they will try to fix it as best they can and that they will take advice when they like it from this side of the House. They receive constructive advice from this side of the House that never in its congenital life...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach spoke about how he came to the House in 1984. I remember 1984 and I remember the man who sat where the leader of the Fine Gael Party now sits, one Deputy Haughey. All we got was abuse and fantasy from a power-hungry party whose only objective was to get to the other side of the House and use the position of power. We now know that was Mr. Haughey's motivation as it is in the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of the review of gambling announced by him in May 2009; when he expects the process to be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46171/09]

Written Answers — Personal Debt: Personal Debt (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will bring forward legislative proposals to change the law on debt enforcement arising from his speech to a Law Reform Commission conference on debt on 18 November 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46172/09]

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the State funded Bachelor of Education Programme for primary teachers requires student teachers to take courses in religion or religious education and to teach religion on teaching practice; the provision made for student teachers who belong to a denomination which is not Christian, that is Muslim or Jewish, or who are humanists...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is a maiden speech.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We require an answer.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach wants to reply.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Is there a problem in the Department of Education and Science regarding the production of legislation? It produced one Bill, which was passed when the former Minister, Deputy Hanafin, was Minister for Education and Science and has now been pulled onto Report Stage where it is stuck in committee for spurious legal reasons. Section A of the pink sheet promises that two relatively simple Bills...