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Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Why did the Taoiseach call in the IMF?

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Why did the Taoiseach call in the IMF?

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: The baby is here.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: That was 13 years ago.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: It was 13 years ago.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Let me quote an e-mail by a self-employed constituent of mine. It was also sent to my Government colleagues in my constituency: As a self-employed constituent of yours can you please tell me the logic of increasing PRSI payments from the self-employed when the benefits we are entitled to are nil? Add in reduced pension contributions relief, a new universal social charge, end of the PRSI...

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: What will contributors get in return for the universal social charge? This is a con trick. It is more taxation.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: The income levy was imposed as an emergency measure because of the financial circumstances the country was in. It was accepted on the basis that it would be dispensed with at some point. We are being asked to facilitate a con trick. We are being asked to pretend we are doing something that will give services to the public. We are about to concrete the income and health levies forever. I...

FINANCIAL RESOLUTION No. 14: INCOME LEVY (7 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: The Minister is joking.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: It is all over. The decisions have been made.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: We need to clear the footpaths.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Thank God for that.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Will the Minister of State give way for a moment?

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Will the Minister of State agree that we table parliamentary questions to the relevant Minister? That is being lost here. Will he agree that when one tables a question to the Minister for Health and Children, the Minister should get that answer from the HSE and supply it in her response to the question? The thinking appears to be that when we table a question it is of the Department we are...

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: I thank the Minister of State for giving way.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: That is not the issue.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: The Minister is asked the question.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: How the Minister gets the reply is up to her.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: They are entitled to it.

Dáil Reform (1 Dec 2010)

Seán Barrett: Does the Minister of State agree the most important opportunity a member of any democratic parliament has is to ask a parliamentary question? Does he recognise that fact? If so, does he agree the service we are being provided with is nothing short of scandalous? Does he also agree the lottery system is a failure in that we manage to get through only six or seven parliamentary questions...