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Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: We would be more than willing to do it for the Government. I thank the Members for their support.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: Senator Leyden will not vote for it.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: Could the Minister of State explain what he means by worker directors?

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: Why should that be a problem?

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: That is why we need a debate. I appreciate from where Senator Ross is coming. He has had some very good ideas in this regard and that is why there is a need for a two-way debate on this issue. To some degree, I believe we are being compelled to support this scheme to try to make it work for the Irish financial sector. However, I look forward to hearing other Senators' views, as should the...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order——

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, no respect is being shown for the House with this sort of carry on; we should know what we are going to do in this respect.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: This is too major an issue for us to be standing over Standing Orders and what we have agreed in this House. This is a massive issue for the people of Ireland. We cannot get tied down in Standing Orders and the like — that is ridiculous.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: This is far too important a matter for that.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: This is a joke.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: We should have a more open debate on this issue and some form of question and answer session in the House. This issue has been discussed in both Houses as well as privately among ourselves. Many Members of this House are not experts on financial issues and even those who are experts are not quite sure where this is going. Even since this scheme was announced a couple of weeks ago, the...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008: Motion (17 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: I do not know if there is any other option.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: There has been no acknowledgment by the Ministers, or anyone in the Cabinet, of the people who are responsible for getting us into this mess, and who have effectively destroyed our public finances over the last number of years. This morning the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, was so out of touch she thought that the only people who would be affected by the withdrawal of...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: We will wait for the rest of the Ministers to line up. The conditions and pay of Ministers have been enhanced considerably over the past eight years and they are out of touch with ordinary people. The budget has this written all over it. It is not fair and the Government was out to hammer people for whatever it could get out of them. It is a disgrace. How does the budget seek to secure the...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: I am sure they are given that every Minister looks after his own patch but what will happen elsewhere? All the Minister for Finance said he would do is produce a few reports and see what will happen. Perhaps he will examine the issue again in 2011 but who knows? The Government does not have a clue what it is doing. The scale of borrowing is frightening and this has not hit home with people...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: The taxes are back.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: They were the Department of Finance's figures. The Senator should not mislead the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: Look what happened to the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: We must have a serious debate on the banking sector. A major sense of urgency was created last week that has metamorphosised into a degree of incompetence and insecurity about what we are supposed to be doing this week. People may want to fool themselves into thinking we are doing the right thing here but what we must watch are the markets. The Irish stock market crashed on the last two...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (1 Oct 2008)

Liam Twomey: What will be the sequence of events?