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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: From my interaction with constituents, which I maintain on a pretty regular basis, it does not seem that people are very much interested in history. They want to know what the Tánaiste, as leader of the so-called socialist party in Government, has done to combat poverty levels in this country. The latest CSO figures indicate that in rural Ireland - forgotten Ireland - 350,000 people...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: No, we want to know what the Government is doing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: This Government has been cutting since it came in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: The Government has taken more from social welfare than it has put back in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: This Government has cut consistently in a sneaky, underhand way, and everybody now sees through it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order. Is there not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I understand and I agree with the Ceann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It is the Minister's job to answer questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I have asked a direct question so could I get a direct answer without the gobbledegook?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I am asking the Tánaiste about poverty today and what the Government is doing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: We do not need the history. We want to know what the Government is doing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Is it going to reach the target?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Has this Government increased it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: This Government left it as it stood.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Government reach the target?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Into yellow-pack, low-paid jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Zero-hour contracts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: This Government made the choice to leave 2% in consistent poverty. Those are the choices this Government has made.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Willie O'Dea: And the Tánaiste's party calls itself the Labour Party.