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Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (30 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Ní bheidh Sinn Féin ag tabhairt tacaíocht don rún atá os comhair an Tí anocht. In áit sin, cuirfimid ár leasú féin - go scorfar an Dáil agus go gcuirfear an buiséad ar athló - chun tosaigh. Is mian liom an leasú a mholadh anois. Tá mé iontach bróduil go bhfuil mé anseo mar Teachta Dála i gcuideachta mo chomhghleacaithe, na Teachtaí amháin atá ina bhfíor Freasúra...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: IRISH.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: This budget is a disgrace. It is a full-frontal attack on the lowest income earners, those who are unemployed and those who are dependent on social welfare. What it amounts to is a recipe for economic suicide. It is another deflationary budget being brought in by this Government. It is being brought in by a Government which claims to act in the national interest, by a political party which...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Mary, you are on much more than that and you should keep your mouth closed for just a couple of seconds.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister, Deputy Coughlan, should keep her mouth closed while I am speaking because she is on much more than the €92,000-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----that Deputies get.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The token gesture that is being taken by Ministers in this budget does not go anywhere near far enough. The Government is cutting the liveilhoods of people who are trying to get on in this State. What have they done? What have the public sector workers done to the Government that it will sack 9,500 of them - 4,150 from health, 1,023 gardaí who will lose their jobs by the end of next year,...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is willing to sell this budget. It is willing to sell the Irish people down the tubes-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----for a casino in Tipperary and a nursing home in Kerry. Shame on the Government.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is the reality.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that I did not name the gombeen Deputies and there may be questions over who they are but the point stands. The fact is we can no longer afford this type of politics. We simply cannot afford it. We need a new type of politics. During the course of writing the budget speech, did the Minister for Finance ever consider what it would mean to ordinary people on the street who are...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: That is why they are absolutely out of touch and why they will be booted out of office. Last year, we heard the Minister for Finance tell the House that the budget for 2010 was the harshest budget that would be needed. What has happened is that the Minister and the Government have repeatedly misled the Irish people. If spending cuts were the solution then we would not have a deficit now and...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----but asks those who have a bit more to pay a bit more. Our alternative would see the cuts announced today reversed. I am calling on everybody going into the next general election and who wants to go into government to commit themselves to reversing the budgetary cuts announced today. No party can go into the next election campaigning against these cuts while unwilling to reverse them....

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: They gambled and lost.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Their debt is bank debt, not sovereign debt-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----and they have to accept a market solution to a market problem.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The principle of this is that the Irish taxpayer should not and will not be the insurance policy for the bondholders who took a gamble and lost. If we proceed with this banking plan, then the budget and the four year plan are already redundant. The plan aims to adjust €15 billion from the State's finances over a period of four years. It is a figure that sits in splendid isolation from...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: We cannot afford this banking policy or the loan from the IMF and the EU. Most importantly, we cannot afford the Government. We need real negotiators to deal with the banks and not a red cent should go into the banks until their debts are restructured either through burning the bondholders or having a debt for equity swap. The addition of €67.5 billion towards sovereign debt will incur...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----not ourselves or the people being hammered by the Government, but bailing out the banks and bondholders. Our public finances can be fixed.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The crisis we are in is the result of the Government's deeply flawed banking policy. What the Government is trying to do is turn a banking crisis into a sovereign debt crisis and it has been aided by its partners in the EU. All of this is about political choices. It is about having the political will to stand up and put ordinary people first. That is what the Government should be doing...