Results 7,541-7,560 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy has undermined politics fundamentally. He is a hypocrite.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We did not agree to any guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I agreed to no guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I did not agree to any guillotine and I am entitled to express my views on this. We already know the Minister's views.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: It is not a democracy; it is the Reichstag 1932.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We cannot discuss it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, it is usually customary to call people based on the parties they represent.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I have no difficulty whatsoever with Deputy Nulty and I assure you I will give everyone ample time to speak.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: That is what the Ceann Comhairle does.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: So we are last. Is that correct?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We will not get in at all.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Did you check with the Ceann Comhairle, incidentally, whether you are in order to be making these kinds of decisions at the expense of the Opposition?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Are you satisfied that you are in order doing that?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Did you check that?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: As there will be other speakers, I will not labour the issue but this is a particularly contemptible and pitiless cut. As Deputy Ó Snodaigh stated, people have paid for this benefit, as it is part of that for which one pays one's social insurance. One does not get a bereavement grant unless one satisfies the appropriate contribution conditions but from henceforth, while one will...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I would not like to give that advice to my constituents in Limerick.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Not only are the offices closed and the budget cut but the average of what one currently receives in Limerick and the mid-west region is hardly worth speaking about, because the budget for such exceptional needs payments has been cut repeatedly. At a recent meeting of the social affairs committee, I confirmed it had been cut to such an extent that community welfare officers have referred...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: That really is contemptible. It is an insult to the people who already are traumatised by the death of a loved one for the sake of €17 million. I could give the Minister 50 proposals off the top of my head that would achieve savings of more than €17 million. Will the Minister put some marginal additional levy on some item and remove this measure? If she were to do nothing...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We are opposed to section 9. I accept the Ceann Comhairle's ruling on amendment No. 13 but what I was trying to achieve was that people over the age of 65 who lose the transition pension should not be subjected, when they apply for jobseeker's allowance, to the usual requirements to seek work, training, etc. I note the Minister in her opening speech yesterday indicated she had given an...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister gave that instruction to the Department that these requirements-----