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Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: I assume I should speak until 7 p.m. and then follow on tomorrow.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: While sitting in the Chamber for the past hour or so awaiting my turn to speak, I have been listening to speaker after speaker on the other side of the House stating that sacrifices must be made and the books must be balanced. While that is all great stuff, at whose expense? This budget is a complete cop-out. I had the pleasure of serving in the Cabinet a couple of times and anyone who...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Deputy should remain quiet.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Government has copped out from taking the hard decision to cap salaries or have a pay freeze and to deal with reform of the public service. Instead, almost 85% of the total budgets of the Departments of Health and Children and Education and Science go on salaries. Consequently, those who wish to make cuts without touching salaries will be obliged to fiddle around with 15% of the budget....

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Taking medical cards from 70 year old pensioners.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Deputy should go on worrying about himself and his party and not about Fine Gael.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Obviously, the Deputy got that from the script writer. Fianna Fáil wrecked the country in 1977 and 1981 and now it is wrecking it again.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Does Deputy Kennedy always have to slag people?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Deputy Kennedy must be joking.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Deputy Durkan.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Would Deputy Kennedy regard those on €35,000 a year as being in the category of the super rich?

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Does the Taoiseach regret having entered into this recent pay agreement under social partnership given that any increases will be taken away by increases in taxation? Does he agree it makes a total farce of the situation that in order to meet the targets set, he must reduce services other than pay? Cutting services to the public will make more public servants redundant because they will not...

Social Partnership Agreements. (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: That is different.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Hanafin, would not agree to it.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: That is the real question.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: Blame the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, again.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: There could be some good former Members.

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: I agree with the points made about the need for confidence. We can stay here all day going through the 53 paragraphs of the scheme. The legislation would be successful if the scheme were never used. This is a matter of confidence. It is our job to ensure that we have a stable banking system in which people have confidence and in which they are prepared to invest their money on deposit. I...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: I am going to ask a question. I want to know from the Minister whether the regulatory supervision will include the activities of banks. Banks want to be building societies and insurance companies, and building societies want to be banks. If I have a plumbing problem, I call a plumber, not a carpenter. The problem has arisen because banks got involved in business they were never supposed...

Approval of Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Seán Barrett: I am asking a question. When we have the opportunity now, will this regulatory supervision extend to curtailing the activities of people dealing with other people's moneys so that they concentrate on the business on which they are supposed to concentrate, such as the AIB becoming involved in insurance and some fellow over in London taking risks on the back of a cigarette packet and we have...