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Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: That is motion No. 2. What is motion No. 1?

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Read the full text, please.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. I do not mind what he said and I will say the same to what he said-----

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: You said I should not mind what the Tánaiste said.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am echoing your words.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am opposing the Dáil sitting later than 5.45 p.m. tonight on the basis-----

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----that there is a guillotine-----

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----between now and then and I am opposing that.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I also oppose the guillotine.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: We have the unusual situation of dealing with Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages but with no separate Report Stage and therefore no opportunity to put Report Stage amendments. We would have been happy to finish Committee Stage tonight if we had a separate Report Stage next week but we cannot agree to this.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Before the Tánaiste returns to the House to take Leaders' Questions next Thursday, 3 May, his Government, spearheaded by the Labour Party and a Labour Party Minister, will have implemented a savage attack on one parent families. One parent families with children aged 12 will no longer be eligible for the one parent family payment. These children are still in primary school and the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I understand the Labour Party does not want to hear this but it will vote for this today.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: A Cheann Comhairle, could I be shown the courtesy-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: There will be further cuts in eight months' time on 1 January for the parents of ten year olds. These children are in fourth class. The Government is saying to children, who are in sixth class today, that if their parents apply for the one parent family payment after next Thursday, 3 May which is the date in the legislation, they will not be eligible and that they are not to be at home to...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am coming to it. The Government is cutting the payment to people in receipt of jobseeker's benefit under the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012. I am shocked that the Government has picked on people in receipt of mortgage interest supplement. It proposes to implement legislation today to give the banks and financial institutions a veto, which they never had before, in regard to people...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste made no reference to the changes the Government is making next week in regard to under 12 years olds and under ten year olds in eight months time. It is reducing the age from 14 to ten within the next eight months and no accompanying measures will be in place. The Minister for Social Protection created a very successful smoke-screen by throwing up the issue of seven year olds...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: What did those who are in part-time work, trying to hold onto their jobs by the skin of their teeth and in receipt of jobseeker's benefit do to justify being attacked by the Labour Party? That payment will be cut this afternoon by 30%.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: In light of what the Tánaiste stated at his party conference, why is the Labour Party attacking the most vulnerable group? This afternoon, the Government will change the rules in respect of those who are in receipt of mortgage interest supplement and it will give banks a veto for the first time ever, in that a person who goes to a community welfare officer to get the mortgage interest...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Some of them are not even regulated by the Irish regulator.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: What have all of these financially vulnerable people done to the Labour Party?