Results 5,161-5,180 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is a requirement of the Cabinet handbook. Can the Minister tell us whether that requirement has been met?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, it is reasonable to ask the Minister whether she is in compliance with the Cabinet handbook.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Members of this House have a right to know whether the Minister is in compliance with the Cabinet handbook.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Can the Minister clarify that?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Before we start the debate on Committee Stage, could we get the final list of numbered amendments?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We still have not received a full grouping list of amendments. It is very difficult to engage in this debate without a list. I have been handed a list but it is not the numbered list. Is the final list available?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is impossible to conduct a debate unless we have a final list with numbered amendments.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We need a list of amendments for Committee Stage and we are entitled to that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I mean the amendments to the Bill. Can we have a list of the amendments to the Bill, a proper final list with numbered amendments, as is normally provided? I appreciate this has imposed huge strains on the staff in rushing the Bill like this and that the normal procedures were not adhered to. This is part of the reason we were seeking to give this Bill adequate time. The Minister is...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Excuse me?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not the final list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not the final list; there are more amendments today. This is why there are Standing Orders in this House and deadlines.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: They should be included in a final list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: This is no way to do business but this is no reflection on the staff whatsoever. This should have been dealt with properly and adequate time should have been provided.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In recent months, the Minister and her colleagues have repeated the mantra that their priority is to protect the vulnerable. While their media advice may be that people will start to believe something if it is repeated sufficiently often, their mantra is a patent and blatant untruth. The Minister has not fulfilled her responsibility to protect the weakest. Even in difficult times, her...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister does not understand what we are saying. Every year in the Budget Statement, there is a report from the social inclusion unit of the Department on the poverty proofing of the budget. It is published with the budget every year. Where is that document this year?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Where is it? Has it been done?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why is it not included in the Budget Statement? The poverty proofing of the budget is always at the back of the Budget Statement. Where is it? Did the Minister forget about it this year?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why is it not included in the Budget Statement this year? That has been the normal practice since 1998. I suspect from the Minister's reply that she does not know what we are talking about.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why did the Minister state that the Combat Poverty Agency brings it out afterwards? Are you aware of what we are talking about?