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Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We will not follow the Government blindly.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: This is the most serious issue facing the country——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: ——and we are expected to take the Government on trust, a trust that has not held up to date.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: A Cheann Comhairle, if you do not allow the private notice questions, can you suggest how we can deal with this, the most important issue to face the country?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: What suggestion have you for us today, instead of scrambling in here tomorrow to a preconceived idea and to learn some of the information?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The markets must decide where our banks stand at present.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We cannot deal with it until we know the extent of the problem. Whether knowingly or not, we do not have the information.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: I would appear the Government has much more information than we have.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: It was irresponsible not to share it with the House.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We have a public interest remit in here and we will not follow the Government line.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: A Cheann Comhairle, you have a duty——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: ——in this House to ensure that the public interest and democracy is protected.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: It is not being protected here this morning.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation with respect to the application for domiciliary care allowance for persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [4854/09]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Question 460: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to reduction of payment for recycling bins for persons over 70 years of age. [4475/09]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Question 16: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide details of the new equity support scheme which is to replace existing affordable housing schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3882/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who has not been awarded their single farm payment; if payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3722/09]

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: I do not recall a boom in the 1980s. However, we only have to go back to the past few months to find a boom and bust cycle. We are here not because of the global downturn but because of the failure of the Government on three fronts: first, the failure to manage the public finances; second, the failure to regulate the banks and, third, the failure to ensure we have a competitive economy,...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We are paying for deals done behind closed doors for the past ten years by the Government.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We do not know how benchmarking was ever arrived at.