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- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: I am being provoked.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: Spin?
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: Why does Sinn Féin not do something for the poor in the North where it is in charge? Sinn Féin is in charge in the North.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: Sinn Féin members are the most two-faced hypocrites I have ever met in my entire life.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: He interrupted me.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: We increased it first, before we reduced it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: We never had the dole as low as it is in the North.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: We never had dole payments of €80 a week.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: I hate hypocrisy. I hate hypocrisy and lies.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: Sinn Féin had its chance to join the Government.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: He does not get everything right.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: Is that the best you can do? Is that your best shot?
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: It is a long way from-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: This guy is okay with what is paid across the Border-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: You would like to think so.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: What is it a week-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: I am very glad that we helped to persuade the Government to give them that break. I also welcome the increases for those of working age. However, nothing has yet been done about the averaging system for pensions. This was a particular measure introduced by the previous Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, and it has given rise to a situation where a person who enters the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: This Bill seeks to implement the social welfare changes announced in the budget. Contrary to speculation, Fianna Fáil did not draw up budget 2017 but it did influence it. As a result of the influence we exercised in the budget we are beginning to see an element of fairness being restored to the social welfare system after five years of harsh, punitive and regressive budgets. This...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: The maximum rate of contributory old age pension in this country is €238 per week compared with €175 in Northern Ireland. We heard a lot of guff this morning at the Joint Committee on Social Protection about lone parents and how certain parties were not looking after them and other parties are going to look after them. The rate of lone-parent allowance in this country is...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy's party is sitting in the Executive and it is happily presiding over that system, which it handed over to Westminster because it was not willing to accept responsibility for it. That is the reality.