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- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: The Ceann Comhairle might ask them to stop with the nonsense.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: The point is that poverty impact analysis would be very useful. I also have a issue with the phasing. I understand it will be extended by two years. However, the people, who find they need to work the extra years, are at the end of a projected working life. They now need to go back to employers and ask to be kept in employment for the next two years, which will be a potential problem. I...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: It will also affect part-time workers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. Section 6.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: I did read it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: What are contributions?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: We must see the Bill in the context of the overall deficit adjustment required. We all know it is impossible to make a â¬3.8 billion adjustment without causing some pain. Many have said there will have to be more. I read some of the analyses yesterday which stated ours was the lowest adjustment in the five eurozone countries in distress. Our growth projections are now so low that it is...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: They get three times more than we do.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: Some â¬120,000, amounting to approximately â¬4.5 million.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy Feighan should get off his soapbox.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: We are asking for the allowances to be vouched. Why does the Government not give that money to lone parents?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: On a point of order-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: Let us discuss lone parents.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is factually incorrect.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: And we are calling for it to be vouched. Which part of that sentence does the Deputy not understand? What is his problem? He and his colleagues get three times more money than we do.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: Let us hear what the Deputy has to say about lone parents.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: The lies are difficult to take.
- European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: This debate has been triggered by tomorrow's European summit. At that summit, the European leaders, Ms Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy, will discuss treaty change with representatives of the other states, some elected like our Taoiseach and some unelected like the new Prime Ministers in Greece and Italy. I will deal with the summit in a minute but first I will address what is at the heart of this...
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: This increase to VAT is dumb policy making. The only figure supplied is â¬650 million. A 15 year old studying junior certificate economics could do a better job than this. We know this measure will destroy jobs and that there will be second and third order effects. Where are the calculations? An army of people are paid very well to do these calculations. Where is the poverty impact...
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Stephen Donnelly: With the agreement of the House, I will share time with Deputies Claire Daly and Catherine Murphy.