Results 22,861-22,880 of 23,619 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I received that letter from an honest man.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: On community employment schemes, we all know the great work done by community employment schemes the length and breadth of this country. The proposed cuts to those schemes will result in the closure of schemes throughout the country and will put others in danger. Local resource centres, which assist thousands of people, will be forced to close their doors. These schemes play a vital role...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----and those impoverished as a result of years of cutbacks and a lack of investment. I urge the Government to reverse the cutbacks to the CE schemes and instead invest more money in them to make them more viable. They also house many community and voluntary services that could be forced to cease operating in the event of their closure. There are 22,000 people currently availing of...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister should go out to the gate and meet the people-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----protesting there today.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: She should explain these cuts to them. We will be out there.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: We will stand with them-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----while the Minister, who is on a huge salary and has a big car, hides in the restaurant. I am ashamed at what the Government is doing, including cutting the fuel allowance by six weeks when people almost died of the cold last year. The Government's answer to them this year is, "Perish away" and "Die and get out of our way". The Government will not then have to pay them any money.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: What does the Government have against parents with a third child?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: Are we to tell people to stop having children once they have had two?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, to remain quiet and let me have my say. I will take him on some other day if he wants a fight.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: Everyone knows that a person with a large family needs more money than others.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Acting Chairman for facilitating me. The change to the one parent allowance is disgraceful.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: What did he say?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: What did the Minister of State say about me?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State would want to be careful about what he says in this House, which is on the record of the House. He should have manners when others are speaking. Like the Minister of State I, too, was elected to this House.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will not have any Minister looking down his nose at me. There is no need for that. The Minister of State should have manners.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister of State to withdraw the remark.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State is a disgrace to be taking on anyone that-----