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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will examine the situation of a job initiative worker (details supplied) whose deserted wife's benefit has been removed due to the operation of a very low income disregard; if this disregard will be increased to encourage women to be able to provide better for their families by taking up work. [37628/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will investigate the situation of job initiative workers who hold a deserted wife's allowance and who are losing a portion of all of their deserted wife's allowance due to the failure to increase the income disregard for eight budgets and who believe they are being treated very unfairly due to the income limit which is not...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will examine the situation of a job initiative worker (details supplied) whose deserted wife's benefit is being cut due to the operation of a very low income disregard for deserted wife's benefit recipients after 30 August 1992; if this disregard will be increased to encourage women to be able to provide better for their...

Budget Statement 2005. (7 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is disgraceful.

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (7 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the independent review being carried out by a person (details supplied) into the interaction between the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces and the parents and family of Private Kevin Barrett following his death; when he expects this review to be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38159/05]

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: On a point of order, when the former Minister of State, Deputy Ned O'Keeffe, resigned, we had a statement and questions in the House. That is a precedent.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: There is a precedent. You said there was no precedent.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: It is outrageous.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to be helpful to the House by making a point of order. Nobody is in mind to give the budget debate and the Taoiseach's speech the attention they deserve.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I propose as a point of order that we adjourn——

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I propose that we adjourn for 15 or 20 minutes to allow the Whips to meet and try to resolve this matter.

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I believe it is the wish of the House that we adjourn and have a Whips' meeting immediately.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I propose to share time with Deputy O'Shea.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: Would Deputy Ring like to speak before me?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I am sorry there has been a mix-up. I am aware Deputy Ring has a long journey to the north west. After all the hype and promises, yesterday turned out to be a disappointing non-event. The Minister for Finance had more than €50 billion at his disposal, a massive amount of money, but the result is a bland and essentially neutral budget. There was expectation in the media yesterday morning...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: In his six budgets, his "book of budgets" as he described them, he reshaped Ireland into a harsh, vicious, winner-takes-all society. That was his aim, as we now know. I hope the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, was not one of those present in those dark days, 20 years ago, when the Progressive Democrats conspiracy was being hatched in rooms around this city. Sadly, one...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is aware that I have always been a member of the Labour Party. Such people reaped wonderful rewards from the era of "good time Charlie". It is now clear, however, that the McCreevy luck has deserted Fianna Fáil. Every time, for example, the Government has tried to shape the agenda in the past seven or eight months, going back to spring and early...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I am merely noting a fact of life.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: I said no such thing.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tommy Broughan: We no longer control monetary policy. It is therefore incumbent on the Minister for Finance to bring forward a different type of budget. That is the point I wished to make if the Minister of State had only waited to hear it. To use Mr. McCreevy's parlance, the Government is turning the corner into the straight. It is approaching the end. It is the mass of PAYE workers and the approximately 1...