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- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: As I stated-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: -----the Government states one thing and does another. It does this all the time.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Minister-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: All I am saying to the Minister is that I do not want this to be used to degrade people on social welfare. I want to make sure that people who want to go out and work can do so and that who want to be retrained will be retrained. We do not want to see the shenanigans that went on in the past in FÃS. I welcome the movement of FÃS to the Department of Social Protection. It is the one...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: That is right.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (8 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [46646/10]
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: You might have to go to America to visit the people who took the money from them.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: The Minister for Health and Children never left Fianna Fáil. Mary never left it.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: We were sold out.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: That is right.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: That is because so many amendments have been ruled out of order.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: This probably is the most savage cut of all. I repeat, at this late stage, that this measure probably will save approximately â¬96 million. This morning, Members learned from newspaper reports that AIB intends to pay out â¬40 million in bonuses.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Not for all, if one-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: In any event, I have found â¬40 million for the Minister already. He should simply take it from the banks if they have â¬40 million to give away. That would constitute a start and would deal with the blind pensioners. A story broke today concerning a social worker in County Kilkenny, who has seen children taking food from a bin. How could Members, particularly on the Government side,...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Deputy Gogarty should go home and mind the child. He will have plenty of time in a few weeks to do that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Shocking.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: That is equality.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: It is better than touching the blind, the weak and the carers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: They have a chance to go back to work; the others do not.