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Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: In its last year the rainbow coalition Government gave £1 per month per child and they criticise us for giving €8.40. A few years ago we increased it by €32. They gave £1 and we gave €32.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: During their time it was £38.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: They gave £38 per month and we give €150 per month for the first two children.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: They gave £49 for subsequent children and we are giving €185. Need I say anything more about child care strategy? In recent years we have built the supply and demand. We have increased places dramatically and under the new five-year programme we will increase them by another 50,000 places in order to bring down the prices. Our record on taxation speaks for itself as we have taken so many...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: We have taken 52,000 taxpayers out of the tax net. As we brought in the minimum wage, we will not listen to any nonsense from them——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: ——regarding taking people on the minimum wage being taken out the tax net.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: This budget provides a tax package of €900 million. In the time of the rainbow coalition it was £499 million in a full year. We have given a substantial benefit to taxpayers——

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: ——on the minimum wage by taking them out of the tax net. This is a substantial achievement of this budget.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: The increase we have given regarding the rates and the bands will ensure that all taxpayers earning the average industrial wage in 2006 will pay tax at the lower rate.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Shame on the Opposition parties for being critical. We thought they would not have the hard neck to oppose the budget.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: When this debate finishes we will issue the press releases to inform the people that Labour and Fine Gael have opposed the increases for old-age pensioners, children, families and the unemployed.

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (8 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Policy with respect to landings by foreign military aircraft is based on the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952. This gives the Minister for Foreign Affairs discretion in the granting of permission to foreign military aircraft to overfly or land in the State. Permission is normally granted on certain conditions, such as that the aircraft is unarmed, is not carrying arms,...

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Can we get on with the business of the House?

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is far from Standing Orders the Deputy was raised.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: It is nice to see the Deputies raising salient rulings.

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Sinn Féin Deputies are great defenders.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: What about Jean McConville?

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy asked the question. He got the answer.

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Jim O'Keeffe defended them.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (13 Dec 2005)

Dermot Ahern: Ireland welcomed the decisions at the UN world summit in New York to establish a human rights council and to double the resources of the High Commissioner for Human Rights from the UN regular budget over the next five years. During my recent visit to New York, I conveyed directly to Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, and Jan Eliasson, President of the General Assembly, Ireland's continued...