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Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can look in the mirror and I am proud of who I am.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am no deluded fool; neither am I a devious operator. I am upfront and honest, unlike those sitting across from us.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: One thing is certain, however, that is, the Government is deluded if it thinks it will get away with blackmailing the people into voting for decades of counter-productive, austerity-driven misery. Tá breall ar Theachtaí an Rialtais. Déanfaidh an pobal a bheart nuair a thiocfaidh an vóta. Roimhe sin, ba chóir don Rialtas an reachtaíocht a chur a leataobh go dtí go ndéanfar an vóta...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Grow them.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Grow them and stand up for Ireland. Negotiation should be done from a position of strength and we will be in a position of strength only when we look at the alternatives for the country instead of cutting the heart and soul from communities and local economies. The economic approach of austerity or any detailed, not to mention highly suspect, fiscal formula has no place being articulated in...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It should not be conditional on us signing-up to legally binding austerity for ever and a day. Austerity is precisely what makes our situation worse. Austerity is stamping out demand in the local economy. Pretty much every economic indicator proves that austerity is not working. Specifically, what the Government is doing in the forthcoming referendum is putting such an austerity measure...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projects or organisations her Department has engaged with since being established and the amount of funding allocated to each of these organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15103/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she plans to amend section 246 of the Child Care Act to explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in the home. [15102/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the homemaker's scheme to include persons whose youngest child is over 12 years in 1994 because these women are currently entitled to nothing. [15930/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will take steps to ensure names are attached to all British old age pension transfers to individuals in order to avoid confusion in circumstances where more than one member of a credit union is in receipt of such transfers, in view of the fact that it is her Department through which recipients apply for the pension in...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 around whose British old age pension transfers some confusion has arisen because their name is not on the transfer; and if, given that her Department may have contacts with its British equivalents, she will take steps to ensure their name is attached...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health when the new mental health facilities in the grounds of Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin, are due to open. [15928/12]

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have proposed a wealth tax.

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Can the Minister of State confirm that the most recent quarterly figures showed an increase in unemployment and emigration? While I acknowledge the positive announcements made by various companies which are willing, despite everything, to invest in Ireland, I ask whether job creation is outweighed by the scale of job losses. Negative stories of job losses include Game, Vita Cortex, Aviva,...

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are statistics based on unemployment, employment and growth.

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is not to do with policy. I am asking the Minister of State to confirm that we are in recession, which is a statistical figure based on GDP having retracted for two consecutive quarters. These are in the same document and are tied to unemployment as is the fact that inflation in that period has also increased and is now standing at more than 2%

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can assure the Minister of State that it is on the plus side.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Kehoe deserved it.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Kehoe should take the next four years off.

Parliamentary Reform (27 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: While I welcome many of the changes brought about, will the Chief Whip ensure that they are reviewed and that the Whips' meetings will be used to re-examine them? I acknowledge that the Chief Whip is open to reconsideration. How does the Chief Whip intend to encourage new Deputies? It is more than one year since the last election and since many of the first-time Deputies attended the...