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Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Some 12 months before and after.

Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Going back to 1921.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Is the Minister sure of that?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should look behind his back.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's party is beginning to look pretty clapped out.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister's party did that once too.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister went that way too.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The twilight zone. The lost revolution.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: As if the Minister's party has some credibility.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: How dare he act in such a way?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Nulty's speech was one to watch.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Is the time up?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: For many reasons it is highly appropriate that Deputies have paid tribute to the late Brian Lenihan during their contributions to this budget debate. No Minister for Finance has ever faced the combination of dramatic challenges which confronted him during his two and a half years in that office. The scale of the problems and the speed with which they kept changing placed an enormous burden...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The measures announced in the past two days to aid the export and construction sector are welcome, but, once again, they are being over-spun. They are so small that the budget documentation shows them as having no impact on growth or employment. They are also accompanied by an accelerated cut in capital spending. The €750 million being cut is substantially bigger than any stimulus...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Labour Party Ministers for Social Protection and Public Expenditure and Reform negotiated together and came up with a set of cuts which are deeply mean-spirited and cruel. They go well beyond anything ever proposed by the party which the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, used to lead. The proposed cut to payments for young people with disabilities is callous and unnecessary.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: To single out this group for such a cut says a lot about the priorities of those who made the decision. The targeting of young people with disabilities is another example of a broken promise, but it is much more than this. When asked during the general election debate what the number one social justice priority would be if he were elected to government, the leader of the Labour Party, now...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----they chose to cut massive amounts from young people with disabilities.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is an extraordinarily negative signal to send to people with disabilities. The Government has also begun to shut the door on educational opportunities by cutting the third level disability fund by 20%. Why did the Government do that? Deputy Cowen raised that matter again this morning. It is an unfair and unnecessary cut. We had made great progress over the last decade in...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Government should not have done it. The members of the Government are already too comfortable

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: These cuts will not be forgotten. They are cold, callous and calculating and all about votes and election politics.