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Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: This is the best investment anyone can make. We went into 30,000 houses this year where people are noticing the benefit. We will double that next year and the year after. It is that ambition that is driving us to introduce this carbon tax in order to gain revenue that will help cut emissions and tackle climate change. Voting against it is a shameful vote in that regard and colours the...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: Every analysis on the price of carbon-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is not a spokesperson-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: If the Deputy believes in tackling climate change, he should vote "Yes" for this tax.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: We have committed to this.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: By insulating their walls and keeping them warm.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: Which will cut emissions.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: The Decentralisation Programme as originally announced in December 2003, included the proposal to relocate the Headquarters of the Central Fisheries Board to Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. As announced by the Minister for Finance in his statement of 14 October 2008, the Government has deferred decisions on the timing of the implementation of elements of the Decentralisation Programme...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: My Department has entered into a contract with "3", a Hutchison Whampoa company, for the delivery of the National Broadband Scheme (NBS). 3 is required to provide services to all residences and businesses that are within the NBS area and which seek a service. The company is progressing its network roll-out and services have gone live in a number of areas. The entire NBS area must be covered...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: There is a full time equivalent total of 11.9 staff currently employed in my private and constituency offices and 3.8 staff employed in the private office of the Minister of State. The Minister of State does not have any staff engaged on constituency matters in my Department. Further information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the following tables: Minister's Staff Office Number of...

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

Eamon Ryan: I have a sense that the nation is battered and bruised but not beaten. If there was one line in yesterday's speech that gave people hope and lifted their spirits, it was that the worst is over, if I am quoting the Minister correctly. We need a sense of where we are going and of hope. The debate can change. There was a strong sense of the country being terrified until yesterday and I would...

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

Eamon Ryan: That is not the vision or plan of this Government. We need to be enterprising. Last week at a meeting I heard Enterprise Ireland say that in the past year it has had 70 high potential start-up companies on its books. If half a dozen of those go from high potential to reality, which I believe they will, those companies will create the jobs. It is happening. Irishmen and women are being...

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

Eamon Ryan: We must be enterprising. This Government has put the mechanisms in place to make that happen. I agree with my colleagues in the Labour Party that we have to be equal and with Ruairí Quinn when he says a more equal society is more competitive, successful and cohesive one. A rational analysis of the past two years would show how this Government has amended the tax system to tax those at the...

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

Eamon Ryan: Yes to the carers. When it comes to health services-----

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

Eamon Ryan: -----which form a huge part of our budget we have made the hard call. It is difficult.

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

Eamon Ryan: I have received e-mails from dentists, doctors and others around the country rightly saying that we have cut their incomes in a way that is not fair. We did that on the basis that we keep our health services open so that everyone here has an equal right to the health services they are due.

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

Eamon Ryan: I can understand the anger and upset of the gardaí who have to take a cut in a difficult time. An equal society means that an older person, who might be scared at home at night because someone is acting in an anti-social way, can ring the gardaí at any hour and make sure they arrive. That is a basic essential service that we must keep as we manage our budget. This Government made a call...

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

Eamon Ryan: They are difficult but we must come out for our people with a sense of where we want to go and what we want to do. Every section of society has a role. Those farmers dealing with the difficult floods, caused by climate change, need a sense that they have a role. They are the front line of a green economy. As they go into forestry and high value and low-emission food crops, which we do...

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

Eamon Ryan: It was difficult but I say to the parent that we had to do that to make sure that the teachers were available for her children. That was the decision we had to make.

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

Eamon Ryan: We also have to work with our unions. I do not believe partnership is dead. We will work better as a nation, for the evolution that we must achieve, when we work together. We need to work with our unions and our business people to make that happen. This budget does not address one constituency over another. It gives us an economic stimulus to work towards a new society.