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- 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...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy does not want to be in government.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: He wants to be shouting from the outside.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: The Armagh sniper.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is rich of Sinn Féin to talk about stunts.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: The Government has indicated to us that it will not vote against the motion if its amendment is defeated. Obviously, it does not want to vote against the motion because to do so would be to vote to perpetuate the current system. However, it strikes me as odd that the Government is prepared to vote for its own amendment which would continue for an indefinite period the amount of time taken...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I want to allocate the last five minutes of my time to Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I move:That Dáil Éireann notes that: - older men and women make a remarkable contribution to Irish society and that this should be recognised with sufficient increases to both the contributory and non-contributory State pensions; - changes made to the State pension before 1994 and in 2012 have had a very negative impact on women’s ability to access adequate pensions; -...