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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The answer is "Nothing," because he has intensified their pain, worry and anguish. Our Republic was betrayed. The Taoiseach has had three opportunities to fix it in three budgets. There is nothing in what he offers today, however, that will put the economy on the right track or offer people the solace they need.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The bills will still fall through the letter-boxes; the planes will still be full of our young people leaving; the dole queues will still snake around the corner of the block. People are still losing their homes, and the St. Vincent de Paul has never been busier. I say to the Minister, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste that their Government's budget is as empty as were the words of the...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach promised on taking office that Ministers who do not perform will be moved out of the way, so he should do the right thing. Sinn Féin has a Private Members' time motion on bilateral cochlear implants and the Government should make an announcement on them, as it should have done today. It should give the gift of hearing to the 200 children as time is running out for them.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We have heard many figures and we must ensure that we do not forget some very important examples. There are 142,892 family homes in mortgage distress at the end of June this year, and that figure has doubled in the life of this Government, just as it doubled under the life of the previous Government. I am sure the Taoiseach cannot begin to imagine the worry and anxiety that people face when...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is unbelievable. It is not our fault that we are seeking logic where there is none in the Government's policies. It does not make sense. Níl dabht ar bith go gcodlóidh an na hAirí go sámh anocht, cé nach mbeidh codladh ar bith ar aithreacha agus máithreacha mar go mbeidh siad ag luí sa leaba agus imní orthu fá dtaobh den méid atá...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will give way to the Taoiseach if he is willing to justify that.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: A Deputy can give way under the rules of the House.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Taoiseach is willing to justify the policies of this Fine Gael and Labour Party Government announced today? A 23-year-old unemployed person can live on €100,000-----

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: A hundred euro - yet the Government will sit idly by and not let out a peep at the annual general meeting about Mr. Boucher earning €800,000. I allow the Taoiseach time if he wants to justify that.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Irish people and their economy are feeling the effects of the Taoiseach's ambitionless policies. We have faced the reality this year, despite the predictions from a few years ago, that there has been zero growth in the economy. Nevertheless, the introduced budget has gone beyond the necessary targets set by the troika. The troika deficit target for this year was 5.1% of GDP but Fine...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Labour Party does not want to hear the truth. Let it shout me down as much as it wants, but this budget was costed by the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am more aware than many of the problems facing the State. Tá an imirce, an dífhostaíocht agus an bhochtaineacht mar chuid de gnáth saol na ndaoine anois ar fud na tíre. Feicimse sin gach lá, i mo cheantar féin i dTír Chonaill agus san iarthar go háirithe. Is ó iarthar na hÉireann é an Taoiseach, ach níl dabht ar bith faoi...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is why they get excited when it is pointed out to them that today they are delivering more cuts in the Departments they said they would protect.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is an expert at delivering these budget statements. As usual, he led off with all the guff about how great he was and he buried all the bad news. It is not possible to make an adjustment of €2.5 billion in the way the Government does without hitting people where it hurts. This budget was written by spin doctors and the devil is always in the detail. The Government has...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The gang that is heckling will know that many elderly people have been coming to our constituency offices during the years because of financial pressures. They have been looking to disconnect their telephones. However, they also know that they need a telephone to have a personal alarm monitor. The Government's cut today will put elderly people in jeopardy. Deputies opposite can heckle all...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Let us look at the other cuts such as those to the rent supplement. Probably the most despicable of all is the cut to the bereavement grant, which is absolutely wrong. The Taoiseach should talk to any family dealing with a bereavement. The only support the State provides for eligible families to bury their loved ones, young or old, is the €850 bereavement grant, which is being taken...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----yet the Taoiseach has decided to cut the bereavement grant of €850. This decision is wrong. The Taoiseach knows this, as does his backbenchers. Anyone who has faced a bereavement will know it is wrong. Measures have been introduced in an attempt to soften the blow and I welcome them. Sinn Féin has called for some of them. However, the context in which they have been...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The budget has introduced an adjustment of €2.5 billion in taxes and savings, while at the same time using money from the State's cash reserves from the sale of the national lottery and other sources to bring the actual adjustment announced by the Minister to €3.1 billion. This is sleight of hand. The people are not naive when it comes to the games played by politicians. They...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It can be done and the Government could go further, but it has refused to do so. Why not restore the respite care grant? I remind the Tánaiste that it was one of the nastiest, most vicious cuts implemented on the 82,000 carers of loved ones the length and breadth of the State. Why not restore the €325 grant and put it back into their pockets? Has the Tánaiste still not...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I will start by reading something:The Government has made ... major mistakes and it continues to make them today. ... The Government never learned that one cannot cut and tax one's way out of a recession. One can only grow out of recession. Consequently, its slash and burn policies were counter-productive ...That statement is spot on and I could not have written it better myself. I have...