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Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: That is not a point of order.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: His party voted to bail out and invest-----

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy knows well, although he may not agree with his party's leader or spokesperson on finance when they say they will use taxpayers' money to bail out the gamblers in Anglo Irish Bank.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is appalling that a party claiming to follow the legacy of Connolly will take from the most impoverished and give it to the gamblers, the bondholders, the international multibillionaires.

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I touched a nerve with Deputy Broughan. There is no incentive for banks and pension funds to lend sensibly to borrowers if there is an implicit guarantee that they will always be bailed out by the taxpayer, even at the expense of impoverishing a nation. The €85 billion deal with the IMF and the EU explicitly bans the State from defaulting on guarantees given to the overseas finance...

Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps I understand where the Labour Party is coming from, given that its pre-budget submission called for a reduction of €1.2 billion in capital spending. Christmas has come early for the bondholders. We are repeatedly told that the banks need a fresh injection of capital. There have been so many injections that it has been more like a transfusion, that is, a transfusion of public...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt ar an cheist seo inniu. I welcome the fact that this motion has been tabled but I wish to indicate that Sinn Féin will be rejecting it when the vote is called. Deputy Ó Caoláin made repeated requests for a debate on this matter and he was continually informed that there was no need for either a debate or a vote in respect of it. Again, it was a...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State projecting-----

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the arrangements he has made for locations (details supplied) in County Donegal who are not included in the rollout of the national broadband scheme and who are unable to avail of broadband in their areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46989/10]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he plans to launch the rural broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46990/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Question 363: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the location of all Údaras na Gaeltachta premises, the size of these premises, when they were last occupied and by which company. [46956/10]

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Have a proper debate.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Some €35 billion of the IMF deal is going into the banks. That is not a sovereign debt.

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Government will not get away it. What it is doing is disgraceful.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Ní ghlacfaidh mise barraíocht ama mar tá cuid mhór ráite ag mo chomhghleacaithe, na Teachtaí Arthur Morgan agus Martin Ferris, cheana féin. I support this amendment. The spirit of the amendment is to protect those already in existing contracts. It has been spelled out that many of that 52,000 would not be able to avail of that protection even if the amendment was accepted. While...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It was Deputy Gogarty who started talking about morals.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It was he who was asking for forgiveness. It is morally corrupt.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The measure is morally corrupt.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I am speaking of the measure in this Bill. As we know, the Bill does not just deal with the reduction of €1 in the minimum wage, but the measure in the Bill is morally corrupt. Since the two Ministers of State came into this Chamber two hours ago, they have earned half of what those on the minimum wage will earn in a full week, but not one cent will come from his gross salary as a result...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: We need a new type of politics. The idea that a Deputy would say he supports the amendment but will not vote for it is ridiculous. Deputy Gogarty is bringing the House into disrepute. That is why people do not trust politicians. We have heard the Deputy say he agrees with the amendment, but will not support it. He said my paymasters are the unions, but his paymaster is the Government...