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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It should not be a challenge for anybody to decide between those two "evils" as the Deputy called them. They are not evil. One is about standing up for the weakest in society and the other is about protecting the most vulnerable.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: One of them is also about growing our economy, because if we do not reduce the wages of the lowest income earners in society, we will ensure there is more money in the real economy, more money to spend on businesses and more money to spend in local shops and retail units etc. That is what it is about.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Finally, as I mentioned previously on the budget, there is a challenge for all of us. We will face a general election shortly and despite the introduction of this measure, which is one of the worst measures the Government is introducing, I have not yet heard a clear commitment in the Chamber that any party in a position to form the next Government will immediately introduce legislation that...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, can I ask the Minister of State to clarify-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----if the advice came from the same source that said the Donegal South-West by-election did not need to be held?

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Have a proper debate.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Some €35 billion of the IMF deal is going into the banks. That is not a sovereign debt.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Government will not get away it. What it is doing is disgraceful.

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the arrangements he has made for locations (details supplied) in County Donegal who are not included in the rollout of the national broadband scheme and who are unable to avail of broadband in their areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46989/10]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he plans to launch the rural broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46990/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 363: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the location of all Údaras na Gaeltachta premises, the size of these premises, when they were last occupied and by which company. [46956/10]

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an cheist seo inniu. I welcome the fact that this motion has been tabled but I wish to indicate that Sinn Féin will be rejecting it when the vote is called. Deputy Ó Caoláin made repeated requests for a debate on this matter and he was continually informed that there was no need for either a debate or a vote in respect of it. Again, it was a...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State projecting-----

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Arthur Morgan agus an Teachta Finian McGrath. Let us be clear, this legislation underpins the bankrupt banking strategy of the Government. It represents the official seal of approval of the bailout plan and it ratifies it in Irish law. I examined section 67, to which the Minister referred earlier and I wondered what the Minister, Deputy...

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: That is not a point of order.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: His party voted to bail out and invest-----

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy knows well, although he may not agree with his party's leader or spokesperson on finance when they say they will use taxpayers' money to bail out the gamblers in Anglo Irish Bank.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is appalling that a party claiming to follow the legacy of Connolly will take from the most impoverished and give it to the gamblers, the bondholders, the international multibillionaires.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I touched a nerve with Deputy Broughan. There is no incentive for banks and pension funds to lend sensibly to borrowers if there is an implicit guarantee that they will always be bailed out by the taxpayer, even at the expense of impoverishing a nation. The €85 billion deal with the IMF and the EU explicitly bans the State from defaulting on guarantees given to the overseas finance...

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps I understand where the Labour Party is coming from, given that its pre-budget submission called for a reduction of €1.2 billion in capital spending. Christmas has come early for the bondholders. We are repeatedly told that the banks need a fresh injection of capital. There have been so many injections that it has been more like a transfusion, that is, a transfusion of public...