Results 441-460 of 15,830 for speaker:Robert Troy
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: One of the meanest acts was the dropping of the fuel allowance. It is a means tested payment that is made to the weakest in society and people do not receive it unless they have a income of less than â¬300 a week. That allowance has been dropped.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: What about the cuts in the value of grants for those on community employment schemes? I am inundated with people contacting me about the reduction in the grant from â¬1,500 to â¬500 for a person on a community employment scheme. Lone parents and people with disabilities will be disincentivised from partaking in community employment schemes in the future because they cannot claim both...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: On Monday and Tuesday of this week Fianna Fáil produced an alternative budget, fully costed by the Department of Finance.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: The Government had alternatives but it did not implement them.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: I remind the Government parties of the promises they made. What happened to the red line issue on child benefit? The Government had alternatives.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: The Government made its decisions and it should stick by them.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: No, I was not here.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: The Minister of State should look back on the promises his party made in its manifesto in 2007.
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to include a ban on fur farming in the upcoming Animal Health and Welfare Bill. [39240/11]
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Go back to Clonmel and close the barracks.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: I am my own man. I was elected in my own right and I am not on the crest of a wave like the Deputy.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Do not vote for it so.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Vote against it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: You might as well given the way you are reducing the grants.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: It was not the community employment schemes which rocked FÃS.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: After all the kites you flew, you still came in with it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: You spent six weeks flying kites to see what would be acceptable and you still proposed it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: We highlighted it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Pause a minute.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Robert Troy: Whenever you are.