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Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: -----would be a further €3 per week. That would be €11 plus adjustments for qualified adult allowance. Those are the facts.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: If the Deputy wants a sensible debate-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I am answering the question.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The figures do not add up. Fine Gael cannot have Deputy Noonan speaking out of both sides of his mouth-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: -----and this man coming in facing five different directions the same morning.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I do not have the details of the issue raised by the Deputy but I will certainly follow it up. It is clearly a detailed Finance Bill matter. I want to make the social welfare position clear. We have had to make changes for the full-year effect. There was a time, before we came back into office, that an increase - when there were increases - was not effected until July the following year....

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: For 25 years he spoke about social justice and when he got a chance to raise the old-age pension, he put it up by 30 bob.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: We must be straight with people.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: It otherwise would not be possible to make a €15 billion adjustment over the next four years, to which the party is committed, in order to reduce the deficit to 3% of GDP by 2014.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: It is not possible to make that adjustment-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: -----without including savings and adjustments in the social welfare budget. We must be straight with people.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: We are saying we will bring it back to 2007 levels. When the Opposition was last in Government, child benefit was £30.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: It is now €140.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: Despite the fact that Governments-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: -----will have to contemplate decisions of this nature, we can retain many of the social gains we have achieved, not only in capital programmes but in current programmes as well. We can retain much of it but we cannot sustain all of it in present circumstances. When circumstances improve-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: -----and we get through this period, people in these positions will be the first to be dealt with.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: It is the truth and those are the facts. To contend otherwise would mean not being straight with the people.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: I do not accept what the Deputy says. All non-residents who have businesses in the State pay taxes in respect of those businesses, whether they are resident or non-resident.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: The position was the same when a former leader of the Labour Party was Minister for Finance. We have tightened the rules since then. The changes to which the Deputy refers came into play when the Labour Party was last in government. Let us talk about facts. Whether a person is resident or non-resident, he or she must pay tax in respect of any businesses he or she has in the State. The...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Brian Cowen: It would create a problem because Deputy Kenny wants to cut €6 billion but does not know how he will do it, while Deputy Gilmore wants to cut €4.5 billion and double income from additional taxes next year to €2.5 billion.