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- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I did not say that at all, with respect.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: The Minister did not listen to a word I said. She came in with a prepared script.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: The Minister has not listened to a word I have said.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: It is never too late to do the correct thing. It is the responsibility of the Minister and Government Senators to do the right thing by carers. I have received many e-mails from people who care for children, those with profound disabilities and older people. Some, although not all, are in receipt of a payment, but they genuinely depend on the respite care grant. They are distraught at the...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I accept that.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Middle income families had their income cut by just under 1%, while high income families had their income cut by only 0.5%. The budget has impacted on people, including carers, disproportionately.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I am providing the Minister with alternatives. There was an opportunity for the Minister and the Government to increase taxation on higher earners to prevent the need to cut the respite care grant. With respect, that was the point I was making. All Members of the Oireachtas must stand by their principles. They must stand by what they were elected on. I have listened to the leader of the...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I ask the Chair to be consistent. I was ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: It is more Labour nightmare land.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: We were ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: That is a silly argument.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I do not know whether he has seen the preliminary findings from the ESRI and its commentary on the budget. It breaks the income household brackets into three broad areas - low income families and individuals; middle income families and individuals and high income families and individuals and comments on the last six austerity budgets. In...
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: That is contained in its commentary. It then goes on to mention the property tax. Before doing that it states that the average income for the top 20% of households is more than five times the average income of the poorest 20% of households. This means that for a budgetary package to impose an equal percentage burden on each group, for every ¤50 million taken from the lowest income group,...
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: The citizens in the North would disagree with that. Many studies have been done which show that is not the case. Actually more money leaves the North than what we get.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I will not take lectures from somebody who wears a number of hats. The Senator says one thing while wearing one hat and something else when wearing a different hat. She has no credibility whatsoever.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I certainly will not take lectures from that particular Senator who has no absolutely no credibility. Perhaps I can finish on one issue. As high as the rates are, at least there is one charge, it is a rate, for which one has one's water paid for, one has free health, including free school, free books, free meals, free education and roads are repaired. We know that the average local...
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: A regressive property tax.
- Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I do not know whether he has seen the preliminary findings from the ESRI and its commentary on the budget. It breaks the income household brackets into three broad areas - low income families and individuals; middle income families and individuals and high income families and individuals and comments on the last six austerity budgets. In...