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Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: They want this State to be able to exit the arrangement that has been opposed on us, which means that our fate is being determined by other people. Honesty is needed if that is to be possible. The people need to be told from where the figures will come. They need to have it explained to them. There is a better way, but it is not the Sinn Féin way.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I heard representatives of Sinn Féin clearly explain that party's proposals.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: They were proposing to ask members of the public to send postcards to the Department of Finance to outline their opposition to this measure.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: It is an appropriate image because the sum detail of Sinn Féin's economic policy would fit on the back of a postcard. We need honesty.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We need politics that is based on meeting people's needs, rather than their wants.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: That is what our amendment does.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: We need to find a way to make our State secure. We need to find a way of making it sovereign. We need to find a way of making sure we can pay the wages of the people who provide our public services. We need to put in place a tax system that meets the aspirations and needs of the people who serve it.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The party that has brought this proposal before the House claims it involves the abolition of a tax that is generating €400 million per annum, but the reality is that it is generating €4 billion.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The party in question has no credibility in this debate, which is why this motion will be defeated by people of conscience.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I have not changed anything.

Universal Service Charge: Motion (29 Mar 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to include a social dividend clause in the National Asset Management Agency legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6478/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (5 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to consider reviewing the VAT rates for casinos, private members clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6509/11]

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I will respond to some of the points made by the Opposition in the debate so far. The word "treason" was used earlier. I had hoped that word would be banished from our vocabulary when discussing our future. We should reflect on what "treason" is. "Treason" is committed when an individual consciously and willingly delivers an outcome that leads to the downfall of a State. I believe that...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish to share time with Deputies Regina Doherty, Michael McNamara, Michael McCarthy and Derek Nolan.

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The contribution from Deputy McDonald is notable in three ways. The first is in regard to what I thought was a somewhat sneering hope that everything the State is clinging to will collapse into chaos so we can then use that as some way of winning an argument. The security and stability of the State is in question - we know that as well as the Deputy. We understand that we have a...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: That is a fact. In the eight to ten minute contribution, which I was happy to listen to, nowhere did I hear what Sinn Féin would do differently. As somebody from a party that had the misfortune to spend so long in Opposition, I can tell Sinn Féin that this kind of rhetoric will get it so far but it will not get it to where it needs to be, which is in a position to come up with a credible...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: The third notable feature of the contribution concerns the fact, which I acknowledge, that Sinn Féin has made an extraordinarily positive contribution to the State in terms of what it has done in the North and the peace it has played such a powerful role in bringing about. It did that through years of patient, positive, incremental negotiation. However, it is now looking at a Government...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: I wish it was the case we were in a situation where these so-called leeches, a term I reject, were in a position that they wanted to lend money to Ireland. The tragedy of what the Government has inherited is that the international markets would prefer to lend money to Thailand or the Bahamas than to the Republic of Ireland. That is the plight the Government must undo and what we will undo...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Apr 2011)

Paschal Donohoe: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a special needs assistant at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [7014/11]