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National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is so ridiculous.

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Government parties have presided over the loss of countless billions of euro and they are the people who are going to strap the deficit with a debt for years and years to come.

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Give us a break. The Taoiseach has no credibility

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We certainly do

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is about what the Government will do.

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No, what the Taoiseach is missing out-----

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We propose the investment of in excess of €7 billion in a stimulus package over three and a half years. The Taoiseach should think about that because it is the one thought he has not had and it is the one that could make a critical difference to job creation.

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach is reversing our roles.

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the publication on 2 November 2010, of the OECD Report on Better Regulation in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46968/10]

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat.

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A minor filibuster. The OECD report published on 2 November, which was welcomed by the Taoiseach, stated: "Regulatory as well as policy failures were a fundamental factor underlying the downturn". Is the Taoiseach aware that in 2006 the same OECD stated in a report on house prices that the most likely scenario was that prices would level out or decline slightly? In 2008, it went further and...

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It certainly did not. The Taoiseach is quite right.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: A Cheann Comhairle, I thank you at the outset for the opportunity to address the issue highlighted in the "Prime Time" programme last evening, that is, the disgraceful treatment of elder citizens by so-called home care providers, under the matters selected for the Adjournment. Tomorrow, the Taoiseach will seek the endorsement of the Dáil for the Government's sell-out deal with the IMF. I...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have already asked two questions, a Cheann Comhairle, and I will ask a few more. The IMF is the body to which the Taoiseach wants to sell out the remaining economic sovereignty we have in this State. Will he not now grasp the opportunity in this eleventh hour moment and not proceed with this shameful deal, given that the IMF's board has itself decided to postpone the final sign-off,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am concluding with this. I am appealing to him not to burden this and future generations with a bank bailout debt created by the gamblers who gambled on Anglo Irish Bank and other corrupt banks, and who lost. I am asking-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will he heed the cry of the people and those who are already hurting in our society as they say, "This is not our debt - we did not take this gamble"?

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach not accept that the alternative is that we should not be paying this bank bailout debt and that, if it is the case that the Sinn Féin propositions fall in any way short in terms of current spending, we would be infinitely better off going to the open market and paying additional percentages for a much smaller sum of money, thus retaining our control, self determination and...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Surely, I can have a moment to do so.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking the Taoiseach how he can reconcile the prediction by his Government in the so-called national recovery plan - a national impoverishment plan, as I referred to it earlier - that there will be 5% GDP growth between 2010 and 2012 with the EU Commission prediction of 2.8% growth, that consumer spending will increase by 1% when the Commission claims it will decrease by 2.8% and that...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: How does the Taoiseach reconcile these widely divergent views and predictions in regard to the future, and with a body with whom the Government is entering into a fixed deal for many years to come? I ask that the Taoiseach take the opportunity to talk to his advisers and to listen to the alternative views, if not from the political parties lined up in this Chamber, to the other...