Results 7,521-7,540 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: As we are discussing sections 5 and 6 together, whatever we say about section 5 is equally applicable to section 6, which deals with adoptive leave. I am opposed to these sections. Let us consider what has happened to maternity benefit in less than 12 months. In last year's budget, the Minister for Finance decided, for the first time in history, that maternity benefit was to be taxed at...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: He is entitled.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, my name is on the list of those opposing the section. I am the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on this and surely I am entitled to say a few words on it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I have something to say on this, because I could not speak on section 3 due to the guillotine. This is a mirror image of section 3. If a person is entitled to illness benefit or injury benefit, the Minister is cutting-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am not accepting that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Opposition are entitled-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: My name is on the list of those opposed to section 3 and this section. I have not had the opportunity to speak on either. Is that the new democratic revolution?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This is Dáil reform.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We know the Minister's views.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister should allows us express our view, not just mine but the views of all those other Deputies whose names are on the amendment of opposition to this section.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I have the floor.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Are you telling me-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: ----- that we who put our names to an amendment opposing Section 3 have no right to speak on matter?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We do not.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Acting Chairman is choosing to let the Minister speak. We want to speak on this. We have views on it. We know the Minister's view.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The time is up.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am entitled to give our point of view on this also. I am entitled to speak on this.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I insist on my right to speak.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I insist on my right to speak. I did not agree to the guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Stagg is a spoofer and a bluffer. It is no wonder that young people looking in on this see this place as a disgrace.