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- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)
Willie Penrose: That shows how farcical it is. No wonder people want to leave this place.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)
Willie Penrose: It will only take about ten or five minutes. Deputy O'Dea will tell the Leas-Cheann Comhairle that it is-----
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)
Willie Penrose: It is a farce.
- Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jul 2018)
Willie Penrose: I concur with the objectives of the comprehensive amendment put forward by Deputy O'Dea. I have raised this issue with the Minister on numerous occasions at every opportunity. I have spoken extensively and comprehensively on it and probably more than anybody else in this House. My colleague, Senator Nash, also brought forward a Bill on controlling bogus self-employment. It is a long time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: It is apparent that extreme climatic events will be part and parcel of our lives going forward. They will be the order of the day. It is going to have to be all hands on deck to deal with what is to be an ongoing crisis over the next period of time, which I stated at this committee last January and before that in November. It is very important that everybody plays a role, including the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: They stole €64 billion from us. The Minister should not dig a hole for himself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: They have the hardest faces one could ever meet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: Did the Minister intend to buy fodder?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: I am not. Although I welcome the witnesses, I know it is the same old drivel I will get, not from them personally but from their institutions. They represent their institutions well but it is the same drivel. They have some neck to come and say the SBCI did not trigger the competition in the market and the low interest rates. They would have wended on their merry way, happily ripping off...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: Of course not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: I just asked-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: No, I asked one question about the interest rate on an overdraft and he answered that it was 8.05%. I want to hear from AIB and Ulster Bank now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: The rates are between 7.9% and 8.5%. They are getting money for nothing from people. They are giving nothing to people in interest rates. They got billions of euro belonging to the Irish people and that is what they are charging. Farmers, small business and individuals depend on overdraft. They cannot always be running in for a term loan. I will tell the witnesses why. They are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Shortages and Drought Issues: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: I did not say the bank put it together. It advertised it nicely. It knew where it was coming from. It is good work. I admire it.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (7 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: 1259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36273/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (7 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: 1260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in regard to their claim for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36274/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (7 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: 1261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in regard to their application for a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36275/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (7 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: 1262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36276/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (7 Sep 2018)
Willie Penrose: 1266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in relation to their claim for invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36318/18]