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Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Time is something industries in Wexford do not have. The carbon tax will be introduced on 1 January.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I do not know if it has dawned on Members how serious is the issue raised by Senator O'Toole. If what he is saying is true, I ask the Minister of State to ask the Taoiseach to clarify some of the remarks made by the Senator. He is suggesting that essentially the Government collapsed the partnership talks because it would not be able to sell what was being negotiated by the Secretaries...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: In recent years there have been amazing developments in the field of biomedicine. Two miles from my front door in County Wexford is a company that is heavily involved in the storage of biological tissue for some of our major hospitals. It is currently developing links with international companies for the biological treatment of serious illnesses within our health care system. It is also...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I had not received the news item from the RTE website before I made my contribution that David Begg has said there is no prospect of reinstating social partnership talks, a regrettable prospect. I wonder if it was the same obtuse behaviour by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance that collapsed the talks that I saw tonight from Senator O'Malley who is completely deluded in refusing to...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: It is unbelievable. Government Senators making their contributions tonight have all blinded themselves to the fact that they have landed this country in an unmerciful stew. To get ourselves out of this mess, there is a need to restore the trust of a huge sector of society that is completely alienated. There is a serious need for the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance to restore that...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Senator O'Malley throws out these things and there is not much sense in what she says. Perhaps Ministers do not think too much about it either.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: A total of €54 billion is 33% of GDP. That is not petty cash that was used to stabilise the banks.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Neither is the €400 million guarantee given to the banks. We are paying a fortune for what Senator O'Malley calls stabilising the banking system. A banking system may be stabilised but it is doing nothing to restore credit flow into the Irish economy to create and maintain jobs and to make this economy grow.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Blathering out remarks at will does nothing to improve the situation we are in. This is just another slash and burn budget. The Government has shown little imagination and thinking and it will do nothing to improve the situation. Sadly we will find ourselves in exactly the same position next year because we have seen no action for improving the job prospects of people in the workforce.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: Senator O'Malley wants us to congratulate this Government not for improving the unemployment rate and not for stopping the loss of jobs in the economy but to congratulate the Government for slowing down the rate of the numbers losing their jobs. If that is her standard for improving things-----

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Senator is great at quoting international literature. Anything that shows the Government debt is increasing massively and unemployment is still increasing, does not bode well for the future. The guys on the Government side need to be more imaginative and come up with solutions to sort out this country pretty quickly. Attacking the Opposition does nothing to improve the situation. We...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: In answer to Senator O'Malley it is on the Fine Gael website but it might be too much for her to read the fuller version of those documents.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I will provide one if it is that difficult for the Senator. I will endeavour to get her a copy.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: I am hoping the Government will take on board our proposals. I will start by sending a copy of the Fine Gael proposals to Senator O'Malley because this Government needs a few new ideas, it needs to be more imaginative and it needs to wake up and get this country working again otherwise it will not be funny anymore.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: No.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, no Minister has expanded on what the Minister of State is saying, that the figures are mythical or do not stand up to scrutiny.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: These are just words thrown out but they do not stand up to scrutiny. No one on the Government side has said that. My apologies, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Minister of State is going back on what he said.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: That is a different explanation from what the Minister of State said earlier.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Minister of State is welcome to interrupt me.