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- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: These people do not need an incentive to work. If what the Taoiseach is saying is that there are other people out there who, based on getting the normal social welfare rate, are refusing to either take up jobs or take up important training, then I refer him to the job activation measures the Minister, Deputy Burton, is bringing in. I would not want someone with a degree and two master's...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: -----for no other reason than that they are under 26, just as I would if the Government had targeted women, people of colour or people of a particular religion. This is an issue of human rights. The Government is not applying it to 30 year olds, 40 year olds or 50 year olds.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: My question is this. We have time, based on the new budgetary process, to step back, think, meet and discuss. I ask the Taoiseach to think about this in terms of human rights. I ask him to be aware that job activation measures have already been introduced whereby, if a person is sitting at home-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: -----living on the dole and refuses to take a job, that person gets nothing. I would support that. My question to the Taoiseach is this. In the time Dáil Éireann has to tease out all of this in the coming months, will the Taoiseach please take this away and reflect that this is an issue of human rights and it is discriminatory?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: No one is arguing with that.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify comments relating to school transport and Bus Éireann that Bus Éireann makes a profit but it is not a profit in a commercial sense; if he will reveal these non-commercial profits in tabular form annually from 2005 to date in 2013. [43747/13]
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Fifty minutes to debate the entire package of Dáil reform is preposterous.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Stagg is sharp this morning.
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Fianna Fáil got four slots.
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask a question?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: On a point of order-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: On a point of order-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing to allow a Member of the House to raise a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing to allow me to make a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: As a Member of the House, am I allowed to make a point of order?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Are you refusing?
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: If I may explain very quickly-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It is relevant to what the Chair referenced. He said that Fianna Fáil had 19 seats, Sinn Féin 13 seats and the Technical Group 16 seats. With the greatest respect, the Ceann Comhairle also said that the time was allocated in proportion to the number of seats. Four speaking slots were allocated to Fianna Fáil, three to Sinn Féin and two to the Technical Group.
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: My question on a point of order is how is the allocation-----
- Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I accept that.