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Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: If we are to make committees more meaningful-----

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We do not want to send him off to the Gulag somewhere.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We want to know why Deputy Colm Keaveney is not fit to serve on the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: What is happening here is that we are asking Parliament to rubber-stamp a Labour Party dispute. The Dáil should be allowed to discuss this issue. Deputy Colm Keaveney was appointed by the Dáil to the committee and we are being asked, at the request of the Labour Party and without debate, to remove him from the committee. It is quite shameful. At least let us have a debate on...

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste has not given an explanation.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste did not.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste told us the mechanics of it but he has not given us the explanation for it.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Tánaiste very much.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the PRSI measures introduced as part of the 2011 jobs initiative have assisted in job creation; the impact he expects from the planned ending of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42721/13]

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

Billy Kelleher: Now for the broken promises.

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

Billy Kelleher: That is not what the Deputy and his party said before the election.

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

Billy Kelleher: You said we did not spend enough.

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

Billy Kelleher: There are no training courses for them.

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

Billy Kelleher: The Minister denied that last week.

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

Billy Kelleher: When will the Government announce the cuts in detail?

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

Billy Kelleher: There is no detail so far.

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

Billy Kelleher: This is a missed opportunity. We have been speaking for a long time about public health policy in the context of alcohol consumption and the damage it causes to broader society. This is an increase in excise that will affect the off-trade and the on-trade equally. There was an opportunity to address the off-trade and below-cost selling, consider the introduction of minimum pricing and deal...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I cannot understand how this resolution has come before the House tonight. We have been waiting a long time for a White Paper on universal health insurance. There was a commitment from the Minister in the context of making sure families would not be under undue pressure yet, time and again, we see a relentless rise in health insurance premia for ordinary families. The Minister, Deputy...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister should have put it in the Department of Health in that case.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is nothing.