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Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: -----protecting the tax rates for those going to work, creating 10,000 jobs in successful schemes such as Tús and JobBridge, restoring home help, defending people with disabilities, and contrary to what Deputy Calleary has said, raising more than €500 million from those who are better off. Deputy Calleary seems to want to ignore the fact that this is the first budget which has...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: We addressed capping relief on pensions at €60,000 per annum and top-slicing enormous severance packages. The measures that have levied more than €500 million from the better-off in our society are the main contributors to these overall savings.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: The difficulty is that Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin broke with tradition this time and did not submit their pre-budget submissions for evaluation.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: If my name was Cowen, I would stay quiet in this debate.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: Some 40% of total current spending goes on the social welfare budget and that budget contributed 10% to the adjustments here.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: If anyone can tell me how to address the budget, in circumstances where 40% of spending goes on social welfare, without making some savings on social welfare, it cannot be done.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: As John Maynard Keynes said: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: We are confronted with the mess Fianna Fáil left. That is what we must deal with. I am happy to say that, thanks to the efforts of the Irish people, 85% of the heavy lifting is behind us-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: -----and that is considerable credit to the people who bore the cost of the mess Fianna Fáil inflicted on the Irish people.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: With regard to PRSI, for the first time in the history of the State, following the decision to lift the ceiling so that PRSI is attachable to all income, in future PRSI will be attachable to all unearned income. If income is from shares, dividends, rental properties or professional fees, it will be now necessary to pay PRSI. One cannot take a single item and present it in the partisan...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: Overall, the PRSI fund is in deep trouble and it is essential to maintain benefits. The very poorest and most modest paid in our society receive most of the benefits. Whether one is earning €120,000 or €20,000, one gets the same pension. For the first time, those with unearned income are now responsible for PRSI. It is the utmost of humbug for Fianna Fáil, having brought...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: From where I am looking across at Fianna Fáil Members, there are as many spots as if they had the measles.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: Let us look at this leaflet being put around in opposition to the property tax.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: Who is putting it around? The very man who negotiated it, Deputy Micheál Martin. The Dalai Lama of Ballinlough comes in here-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: I will not display leaflets. It is the utmost in hypocrisy for the party that brought this country to the edge of ruin to pretend, having negotiated the very memorandum of understanding that required the Government to introduce a property tax, to take up a position of opposition to it.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: My backbenchers cannot compete in making noise with Deputy McDonald. She makes less sense economically than the flaky stuntmen in the Technical Group and she refused-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: That is stuntman No. 1.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: It was interesting during the budget that the only squealing from the Technical Group was when it was made to account for its leaders' allowances.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: That is the real respite Deputy McGrath is concerned about.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: With regard to women, families and social welfare, the budget has protected core social welfare rates. It has maintained in existence the qualified child allowance and family income supplement. It has maintained child benefit as a universal payment.