Results 721-740 of 23,646 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I also ask about the promised legislation on upward-only rent reviews. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, has lost the respect of Ireland's largest industry.
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: We expected legislation.
- Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: The retail industry relied on the Government to introduce legislation.
- Financial Services Regulation (8 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: What happened was disgraceful.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: She is not even here.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: It will take some explaining.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: Hiding.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is an awful comment to make to a poor man.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: Telling the truth is not putting fear into people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: We know. The Acting Chairman is a gentleman, but it is wrong to mislead the House. Fine Gael gets â¬4.4 million. Deny it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy McConalogue and Fianna Fáil for sharing time. Twelve months ago the Minister was on this side of the House berating the then Government and the people who supported it. She called them everything under the sun and went out onto the plinth and said they were treating people in a disgraceful manner. What they were doing at that time was nothing in comparison with what the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: This is my opportunity to speak.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will not interrupt the Minister of State and he will not interrupt me.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have manners.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: What manners has the Minister with the misery she will inflict on the people? I will have my say. I say to the Minister for lifestyle choice that I do not know anybody who is on welfare because he or she wants to be on welfare. The people I know and represent want to work. They want to get up in the morning, put on their shoes and go out to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay....
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: It was glossed up by the people to whom the Government is paying hundreds of thousands of euro.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: At least the Government got some value out of them. They glossed up this budget in such a way that the people did not think it was bad. It will not be until later today, tomorrow or having read the Sunday newspapers that people will realise what has been done. People will then realise their entitlements have been changed. These cuts will have a savage effect on the poorest of families.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I received the following letter from a man with a family: ...sorry for dropping you a message like this. I am one of the people that will be hit by the Carers being means tested. I only earn 400 per week, we have 3 kids, one of which has DS. He is 3, our eldest is 7 and we have a new baby 2 months old. As you are well aware of the cost and the work that goes hand in hand with any special...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: The letter continues: "I can't take any more and we won't be able to survive."
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I received that letter from an honest man.