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Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: Am I back in?

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: We will hear from the Minister.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: Many poverty groups state that the current rates are insufficient to meet living needs. I referred to this matter when I stated that the people affected should not ask, cap in hand, for what is a basic threshold to meet living needs. I do not doubt that the Minister knows this through his constituency office. Many of my colleagues on this side of the House and I know it because these are...

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, before section 2, to insert the following new section: 2.—The Minister shall, within the next 12 months, review the Fuel Allowance payment and report to Dáil Éireann on the implications of increasing it substantially.". The fuel allowance period was extended by one week in this budget but it was not extended by one cent. I would like to hear from the...

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I acknowledged at the opening of my Second Stage contribution that there will be a difficulty in managing a budget in the face of the current economic downturn we are experiencing, but will the House accept that a jackass could run the scheme if we are to simply let it run on and not be imaginative? What we should be trying to bring to this budgetary situation is a change in our thinking....

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: Perhaps I should have tabled an amendment to provide for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to attend a training course in negotiations so he could be more effective in getting a better deal with the Department of Finance and various Ministers.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: The Minister is a lonely figure in that line of thought. It is not shared on this side of the House.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: It is relevant because I am trying to enhance the Department's social welfare budget. One way of achieving that is to upskill the Minister in negotiating.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: We have made the important points on this amendment but the Minister is not listening.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: What about the Exchequer returns?

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: That was a lovely after-dinner speech to a chamber of commerce, well practised by the Minister and his colleagues in various parts of the State. To say there has been no change in Revenue receipts is more than ridiculous. It is unfortunate the Government was over-reliant on the property and construction sector. If it had managed it more carefully, we would not be in this situation.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: The Government should have been cleverer with the resources it had to end that overdependency.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: There was a gross overdependency on revenue from the construction sector while the Government sat on its hands, asleep at the wheel.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: Of course, the Government worked with the construction sector for whatever reason. However, it ignored all other opportunities and let the economy go on automatic pilot.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: This is relevant because if proper economic management was in place for the past ten years, we would have enough money to extend the fuel allowance and many other welfare payments.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, before section 2, to insert the following new section: 2.—The Minister shall, within the next three months, report on the direct provision scheme for asylum seekers; highlight the hardship it is causing that group, and report to Dáil Éireann on the implications of increasing it before the next budget.". This amendment seeks a review by the Minister...

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I do not know whether asylum seekers are at greater risk of poverty than the rest of the population. I suspect that many of the groups involved would refute the Minister's point but I will ask them for reports to support their claims. The direct provision concept is wrong. The Mosney camp in east Meath is the centre closest to me. I recall when it was Butlins which we visited on school...

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: Nobody is suggesting that.

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I wish to correct the record on a point the Minister made; nobody on this side of the House advocates an open door policy on entry to this country. We all recognise that a responsible process is necessary but I suggested earlier that the process of examining those claiming asylum must be expedited. This would have a positive effect on the Exchequer and in the absence of this asylum seekers...

Social Welfare Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2007)

Arthur Morgan: I support the amendment. I support all the amendments tabled by Deputy Enright but chose not to use up the time available unnecessarily because other speakers had made all the necessary points. I concur with Deputy Shortall's point that there is a difference between the groups with respect to this issue. It would be very useful to have a committee examine the issue in a speedy manner to...

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