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Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: That is why they are absolutely out of touch and why they will be booted out of office. Last year, we heard the Minister for Finance tell the House that the budget for 2010 was the harshest budget that would be needed. What has happened is that the Minister and the Government have repeatedly misled the Irish people. If spending cuts were the solution then we would not have a deficit now and...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----but asks those who have a bit more to pay a bit more. Our alternative would see the cuts announced today reversed. I am calling on everybody going into the next general election and who wants to go into government to commit themselves to reversing the budgetary cuts announced today. No party can go into the next election campaigning against these cuts while unwilling to reverse them....

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: They gambled and lost.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Their debt is bank debt, not sovereign debt-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----and they have to accept a market solution to a market problem.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The principle of this is that the Irish taxpayer should not and will not be the insurance policy for the bondholders who took a gamble and lost. If we proceed with this banking plan, then the budget and the four year plan are already redundant. The plan aims to adjust €15 billion from the State's finances over a period of four years. It is a figure that sits in splendid isolation from...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: We cannot afford this banking policy or the loan from the IMF and the EU. Most importantly, we cannot afford the Government. We need real negotiators to deal with the banks and not a red cent should go into the banks until their debts are restructured either through burning the bondholders or having a debt for equity swap. The addition of €67.5 billion towards sovereign debt will incur...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----not ourselves or the people being hammered by the Government, but bailing out the banks and bondholders. Our public finances can be fixed.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The crisis we are in is the result of the Government's deeply flawed banking policy. What the Government is trying to do is turn a banking crisis into a sovereign debt crisis and it has been aided by its partners in the EU. All of this is about political choices. It is about having the political will to stand up and put ordinary people first. That is what the Government should be doing...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is a disaster for the young people who wanted to build a future here and it is a disaster for the families they will leave behind. The ESRI estimated that by the end of next year 120,000 people will have emigrated. It is 90 years since the foundation of the State and Fianna Fáil has once again used emigration as a safety valve at a time of rising unemployment.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: These young people leaving our shores should be the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors, teachers and engineers. These are the people who can rebuild our economy and deliver the public service which the public demands. In this State, we train nurses at a cost of €90,000 per nurse and next year 90% of them will leave our shores while at the same time our hospitals...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: We can build a better Ireland.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: We can be part of consigning the corruption, cronyism, greed and incompetence to history.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The young people of Ireland can be the new generation to achieve real political change and build a sustainable economy.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I know the Tánaiste does not like this. We all heard her on BBC speaking about how great it was that our young people were leaving Ireland-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----but she should speak to the mother who is crying and who will never know whether her son or daughter will ever return again. Speak to such people and she might understand.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The people of Ireland deserve better than this budget and the people of Ireland deserve better than this Government.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody should think-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I will spell it out to the Tánaiste.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody should think that we in Sinn Féin underestimate the magnitude of the problems in our public finances. We have a structural deficit apart from the banking crisis that must and can be addressed. It has been caused by the Government's steadily eroding the tax base, allowing unemployment to rise and allowing a culture of waste and excess to develop in sections of the public sector....