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

Michael Ring: It does not.

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

Michael Ring: I have never heard Deputy O'Dea so quiet.

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

Michael Ring: The Green Party is banging on about climate change. The US is destroying the world.

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

Michael Ring: All the Green Party wants to do is tax us. Its members want to tax rural Ireland and put us off the road. We will have to pay more and they have all the public servants to pay up. We know that is what the tax is for.

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

Michael Ring: Everybody wants a carbon tax but the problem is-----

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

Michael Ring: Everybody wants a carbon tax except Fianna Fáil and the ordinary people of Ireland. This is not a carbon tax. It is another attack on rural people in rural Ireland and it is an attack on the poor, the weak and the sick in society. Of course the Green Party Ministers want to save the world. They should save Ireland first and then they can save the world because they are destroying the...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (9 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 301 of 18 November 2009, when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment for 2009. [46386/09]

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: I tabled a number of questions to the Department of Health and Children about the over-70s medical card. The office will not answer the telephone, elderly people are worried, the office dealing with the medical card was decentralised to Dublin and nobody can get an answer. Elderly people cannot get their medical cards renewed.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: I have tabled parliamentary questions. I do not want to get into a row because it is not good for my health. Will the Minister for Health and Children talk to the HSE and get them to deal with the over-70s medical card and answer their telephones?

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Will I get a reply to my questions? The Minister for Health and Children tells me she has no responsibility for the questions. I know Professor Brendan Drumm is the real Minister for Health and Children but Deputy Harney is not prepared to do the job and people over 70 are waiting for their medical cards. They are worried, sick and frightened. Elderly people are coming into my clinic...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: It is an attack on the elderly.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: I wish to share time with Deputies Lee and O'Dowd. I was disappointed yesterday that neither the Minister for Finance nor the Taoiseach apologised to the people for the way they have left the country. They should have apologised to those on social welfare, the public service and to the people. They have never once admitted that Fianna Fáil has destroyed the country. The weak, the sick...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their redundancy payment. [46461/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the medical card renewal application for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46460/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card has not been renewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [46487/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [46488/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (10 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Question 161: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received their de-stocking payment for 2009. [46404/09]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Well said. We were all impressed with the old rubbish uttered by Deputy Kennedy.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: Deputy Kennedy only talks old rubbish.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Michael Ring: That is why he is only on the subs bench.