Results 6,521-6,540 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish the report of Advisory Group on Taxation and Social Welfare report; the reports views on child benefit rates; her future plans for child benefit rates; if the child benefit rate will be protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49974/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I remind the Minister about some of the sentiments expressed by her and her party leader in opposition. For example, in February 2011, in the teeth of a general election campaign, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, when asked what would be of central importance to the Labour Party in entering government, stated, "[Things] like not cutting...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: At the launch of Labour Party policy on 23 February 2011 it was stated child benefit was often the lifeline which helped to keep food on the table and the house warm and that any further cut would create a genuine crisis. Despite these clear, definitive and unambiguous words, the basis on which many voted for the Minister's party in the general election, in last year's budget she imposed...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: We are talking about today and tomorrow, not yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: "Enough is enough" is what the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, stated.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The situation has not got any better in the last two years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister stated that the spend is €3 billion, but it was also €3 billion two years ago - when one takes account of the change in the value of money - when Deputy Burton said that enough was enough and there should be no more child care cuts. The Minister spoke about what she said, but what she said does not have any meaning. I am reporting what she said, as opposed to what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I asked the Minister about tomorrow, not yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister's figures are as false as her statements in opposition.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: She said there was no room for further cuts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister was going to change all that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister was going to change all that. What about her promises?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: What about her unambiguous words? She was going to change all of it. Hers is the party the people voted for.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: They voted for the Minister on the basis that she was going to change all of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I am very calm.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I am very, very calm. The Minister does not like having her own words quoted back at her.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Lie after lie after lie.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: They will be scared when child benefit is cut again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Are they getting more?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government cut child benefit.