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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: They listened to one person but are now gone before the second speaker has finished. We have not even got to Sinn Féin or the Independent and Technical Group yet the Ministers are gone.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The people who wrote this budget have done this year in, year out. They are off to give a press conference and put a spin on what they did not say here today. This time last year, I asked the Ceann Comhairle, who was in the chair, if he would personally intervene to ensure this would not happen again on this occasion and he said he would.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I believe there is a legitimate case to be made for having the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in this Chamber to hear what is being said.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: They are gone to the press conferences.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: It speaks volumes on the contempt this Government has shown for the national Parliament. It is more interested in a press conference and having a word on the side with individual journalists in order to plant their stories than with putting the facts to this House in public.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry but, while we have the Taoiseach, we have not one other member of the Government here. I am looking around and the benches are empty.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are they canvassing?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are they gone for their posters?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are they nervous again? Is Joan happy with her €3 increase? Does she think she can win an election on a €3 increase? Wait until they get hold of her and her €3. They have a lot to say about her and her €3.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I have made the point already-----

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----but this level of arrogance is what will trip up the Government on the doorsteps.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: It might get away with this arrogance here in the House but it will not get away with it on the doorsteps, whenever that will be.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: On child care, there is nothing in the budget announcement today for hard-pressed working families with young children under three years of age. They get six months of maternity leave. After that, from the age of six months to two and a half years, the parents are back at work and paying for child care. It is costing up to €400 per week for two children, which is an annual cost of...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Government will claim there is a greater degree of openness and transparency in the budgetary process. The spring economic statement, part of the EU fiscal rules, is indeed welcome. However, in recent years the budgetary process presented in Dáil Éireann is less honest and less accurate with no meaningful review mechanism in place. Last year, the Government announced...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: An essential review of this budgetary process is now required. The Dáil should be given an accurate and honest quarterly report at the end of March, June and September each year to ensure funding available for expenditure can be allocated, approved and utilised in a logical manner. This is a subject the Government has failed to acknowledge. Is this slush fund of €1.5 billion an...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: It has managed to turn it into a housing emergency, some achievement. Some 130,000 people are languishing on the social housing waiting lists. There are 471 homeless families with 1,054 homeless children sleeping in hotel rooms tonight in Dublin, Cork and Galway, waiting to be kicked out the next morning before they go to school, ashamed to say where they spent the night. This is in...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: We are now entering the final chapter of this Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. The story is as follows: chapter 1 - the setting is Government Buildings March 2011 and the main characters are Enda and Eamon. Does the Taoiseach remember Eamon?  They look at each other and say, "We’ve landed, what will we do now?" Enda says, "Do you remember the four-year plan we opposed, the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----and we said there will be no water charges. I’ll do a U-turn as well and drop every one of those promises.  It’s the price of power."

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: That was it settled. Both of them agreed-----

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----and said, "We’ll call it a democratic revolution". Chapter 2 of the story is about the economy and regressive anti–social budgets introduced by this Government.  It looked after the wealthy and gave tax cuts to the high earners. It spoke about trickle-down economics. It took the four-year plan it inherited from the previous Government and removed all traces of...