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- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: If he is not going to reverse these cuts on health or compassionate grounds, I appeal to him to reverse them on the grounds of preserving the integrity of the democratic system. These cuts are corroding and undermining the democratic system, politics and politicians.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The measures contained in the Bill and the manner in which it is being rammed through the Oireachtas comprise a litany of broken promises. I cannot refer to the Bill without mentioning the guillotine. In the Government parties' election manifestoes, they committed to changing the guillotine. Under the programme for Government, they were to tackle the significant overuse of guillotines to...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I refer to amendment No. 3, which was ruled out of order. Will the Minister explain-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: It is very important-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----and the Minister might want to explain why it has been ruled out of order and on what basis she has cut the household benefits package every year without bringing it before this House. She did it in 2011 when she was only a wet week in the job. In 2012, we lost six weeks from the fuel allowance. The electricity allowance was cut last year and the telephone allowance has been cut this...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has reduced the value of those pensions over three budgets.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: A guillotine is being applied.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: On point of order, it is obvious to everybody here that today's proceedings will be an absolute shambles.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am sorry, but is my name not on the roster?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I indicated and the Ceann Comhairle nodded.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I indicated that I wanted to speak.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has guillotined this debate. I have no sympathy for the Minister in that regard. I indicated that I wished to speak and the Ceann Comhairle nodded.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: This Bill is targeting less well off people, effectively making middle- and lower-income families pay for the recession. I simply do not know how a Labour Party Minister can introduce these cuts to adoptive leave and maternity benefit. Not too long ago, the Minister for Finance told me that the top 10,000 earners in this country have average earnings of €595,000 per year, while the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----yet we have no wealth tax. This is the second year in a row that maternity benefit has been targeted. Last year, it was hit by tax at 41% in most cases. Deputy O'Dea gave a figure for that. I am not quite sure if it is the exact figure, but it is a significant figure anyway. This year, maternity benefit will be cut by €32 per week. We are told that the payment is being...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: On a point of order, the clock is at zero.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has stopped us speaking with a guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: Is she entitled to keep speaking?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: On the basis of the order of the Dáil yesterday and today-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, I am asking for a ruling on a point of order.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am talking about the time. The Minister should have stopped by now.