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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...

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

Pearse Doherty: One hundred years after the great event, the words of the poem that celebrated that should be engraved on the doors of the Minister for Finance:What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone;The Government has dried the marrow from the bone of ordinary Irish...

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

Pearse Doherty: We submitted those options to the Government last week in our alternative budget proposals. They would have reduced the tax burden on ordinary families. They would have protected public services and would have invested in jobs in a real way, providing the type of jobs that we need to kick-start the economy and get it growing again.

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

Pearse Doherty: It was costed.

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

Pearse Doherty: It was costed. It was costed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance if any conflicts of interest were declared in the tendering process for the outsourcing of the Central Bank of Ireland's IT system. [42995/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any issues regarding the fact that a company (details supplied) through its management of the Central Bank of Ireland's IT system may have access to data of a rival, who operate a commercial bank here. [42996/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if, a company, (details supplied) are subject to the provisions of the Patriot Act which could require them to provide data from the Central Bank of Ireland's IT system to the US Government. [42997/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance the membership and calendar of meetings for the advisory committee who advise the National Asset Management Agency Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43115/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the database application server which hosts many of the Central Bank of Ireland's applications crashed in the first three weeks after migration to a company (details supplied); the number of times it has crashed since then; and the date on which the last crash occurred.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43190/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Internship Scheme Numbers (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers who are employed in teaching positions on jobbridge schemes per county since the scheme started; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43225/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the eligibility criteria for inclusion on the supplementary panel for teachers after October of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43222/13]