Results 2,641-2,660 of 12,585 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: They shout you down. They do not let you talk. That is it. That is the line.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I was not.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I was not.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: We might as well put a candle in the window for Shergar as ask him to act responsibly.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: Second, Sinn Féin has happily presided over a starvation system of social welfare in Northern Ireland where those in receipt of the old age pension are getting paid approximately €100 per week less than those down here are, and they come down here lecturing us. In Northern Ireland, the rate of carer's allowance is €69 per week.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is approximately €200 per week here and they are lecturing us.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: He has no respect for democracy, that is his problem. If he keeps talking, I will keep answering him. I asked Deputy Brady quite recently why Sinn Féin did not make this a priority when it was entering the Executive in the first place. Why did they not say they would not enter into government in this country and preside over a starvation rate of social welfare? A second question...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: -----but if Sinn Féin really wanted people to be paid rates of social welfare in Northern Ireland, why did it not collapse the Executive on that? It obviously had a different priority. Do not lecture me about priorities.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is ironic that Sinn Féin comes in here obviously so worried about women. The only women I read about are the women who are being bullied out of Sinn Féin. That is the only thing I read about or hear about. Do not try that caper with me because you certainly will not succeed. You can bully young women but you certainly will not bully us.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: Your party.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I withdraw nothing.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I said Sinn Féin has bullied women.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I did not accuse you.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I want to make it clear I am talking about the Sinn Féin Party, not Deputy Brady.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is typical.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is typical. He asked me to say something and-----
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: -----then he will not give me the chance to say it.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I did not make any charge specifically against Deputy Brady.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I made a charge against his party.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: If you say I did, you misinterpreted what I said. We also had a lecture from the so-called left here, stating Fine Gael will not do this in government and Fianna Fáil will not do that in government. The irony is that those to whom I refer do not want to be in government at all. They want to be shouting from the sidelines permanently. Toy town demagogues, that is what we are dealing...