Results 721-740 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: He has not put it on the record.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: That is rubbish. The Minister of State should be a man.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: I will accept that because I want to continue and make my point. I am not going to sit down.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: Thank you. To make my point clear, there were 34 people on trolleys in Letterkenny General Hospital today, the day of the budget. The reference made by Deputy Bruton, the Fine Gael spokesperson on finance, to the fact that there are people on a continual basis on trolleys, should have been taken more seriously than it was. The reaction was like that of a junior or senior infant primary...
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: I am being interrupted, Chairman. Some ten years ago a Minister of State resigned over a similar leak as a result of a simple mistake by a civil servant. Many newspapers had access to much of the information on today's budget, which basically made a damp squib of it. It was all much ado about nothing because the public in general knew exactly was coming up in it. Reference was made in the...
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The Government can use all the razzmatazz and glamour it wants, and put whatever slant it wants on this.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The problem with this economy is that it is dangling by a thread, including the construction and services sectors.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: It is a disgrace. The razzmatazz and the insult of today will soon be over but the real lives and real people will remain, including hospital patients on trolleys, 34 of them in Letterkenny General Hospital. The Minister of State should tell them and their relatives it was a good budget, as they sit in the coffee dock.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: Elective surgery has been cancelled. Patients have had procedures cancelled. The Minister of State should tell them it was a good budget. I will not.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: Will the Government ask the people? Will it go to the country? Will it hold an election?
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: Ten years too late. Tell that to the people of Roscommon.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: What about the farmers of north Leitrim?
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: He was not here to listen to the debate.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: It is because we are building houses. One would think someone as smart as Senator Ross would know that.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: Of course it is.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The only party that is suggesting an increase in the rate of corporation tax is Sinn Féin.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The people will decide that.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: He has nothing substantial to say.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The Minister of State should get him a membership card.
- Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)
Joe McHugh: The Senator is blindfolded.