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Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Frank Fahey: -----will be in a position to restore welfare payments which it is now necessary to take away. They are certainly the first payments that should come back when we see economic growth and we will see that economic growth quickly. Failure to take the hard decisions in this budget and failure to cut public expenditure to the extent we are doing, would result in a prolonged recession in this...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Frank Fahey: -----and 1987, when we finally took hard decisions, all parties in government failed to take hard decisions in regard to public expenditure, Fianna Fáil on one side and Labour and Fine Gael on the other. We lost five years as a result of not confronting the issues of public expenditure-----

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Frank Fahey: That is not going to happen on this occasion. The hard decisions have now been taken. If we were to fall on this budget and Fine Gael and Labour found themselves in government after Christmas, they would be forced to make the exact same decisions.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Frank Fahey: There is no other way out of it. We must be straight and fair about it and let us be honest with the Irish people. This budget is a good budget; this social welfare Bill is a good Bill, even though it is a difficult Bill and I stand behind it four square.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It is about time.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: All of the allegations made by the Deputy from Kerry are totally and completely untrue. I was appointed Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources in January 2000, halfway through the Government's term of office. I chose to run the Department in an entrepreneurial way and expand and pursue the developmental role of the Department in the marine sector. My objective was to deliver an...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The value it had was gross tonnage and engine power-----

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: -----which enabled the people who were successful to go out and buy a fishing boat and return to fishing. It is interesting to note that a number of the people who qualified for the scheme have lost money on it since then. The Ombudsman's report stated that the appropriate remedy for the adverse effects suffered by the Byrne family was monetary compensation and that the calculation methods...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It states: The Scheme did not provide financial support to successful applicants for the acquisition of a replacement fishing vessel itself and the replacement capacity, i.e., gross tonnage and engine power granted under the Scheme had to be used by the replacement fishing vessel. It could not be sold on or otherwise traded or realised as a financial asset in the tonnage market. The...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: To add insult to injury on the day after the Ombudsman's report was published with this finding, Jim Higgins MEP issued a press statement which stated: The scheme cost €2.8 million, yet only six applicants were deemed eligible and two of Frank Fahey's constituents got 75% or €2.1 million of the total funds. The other four successful applicants were left with the crumbs. If ever a...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: As the Ombudsman stated, there was no compensation given.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The tonnage could not be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: For Deputy Ferris's information, the tonnage could not be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: It could not be sold or otherwise disposed of. The figure he is talking about is the value of pelagic tonnage and this was not pelagic tonnage, it was entirely different and nothing like as valuable, even if it could be sold.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: As the Ombudsman stated there was no compensation given out under this scheme. There was no predetermined amount of fishing boat capacity awarded under the scheme. The suggestion that was made again today by Deputy Creed that 75% of compensation went to two constituents is a ludicrous one.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The Deputy has obviously not read the Ombudsman's report, but has picked out what he liked from it.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: I have welcomed the Ombudsman's report in that it has set the record straight in regard to the false and defamatory allegations made against me by Jim Higgins and others, including Deputy Ferris. This issue has been ongoing since 1994. I have had to put up with the sort of complete misrepresentation that we have heard today about what was involved in this scheme. There was no 75% of any...

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: The Taoiseach offered to Deputy Creed to bring this matter to committee but because he wanted to keep the political football going, he decided to bring it in here and have it dealt with in this way. I am happy to defend myself in this situation and the participation-----

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: I was and I heard what the Deputy had to say. It is on the record.

Special Ombudsman's Report: Statements (4 Feb 2010)

Frank Fahey: This issue has been investigated for six years.