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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is happening.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is happening.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: That is the key point.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I will be brief because we have debated these matters at length on the Order of Business and the Social Welfare Bill 2010. Senator Ó Brolcháin hit the nail on the head. We must give people incentives to work. The shrinking gap between social welfare and the minimum wage means there is no incentive for people to get off the dole and their medical cards to join the workforce on a wage of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: What about the use of the guillotine now?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: There was no Report Stage debate.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: This is a guillotine.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Although a lot of the policies have not been followed through.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: He should read what the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, said about him yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We had little or no legislation in this House for the first seven or eight weeks of this term. It now appears that the Green Party wants three or four Bills passed before we have a general election. It makes one wonder whether it was January 2012 they had in mind for a general election rather than January 2011. The Leader might be in a position to inform the House of the intended sitting...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: He specifically gave the date of the middle of January.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It will not be the middle of January then.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: The Green Party will pull the plug in January.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Was it to be in January 2012 that the Green Party would pull the plug?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: We had to clean up the previous mess.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: It is a bigger mess than usual.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: "We are where we are" is the message we have heard many times. We are where we are because of the policies the Government has pursued for 13 years. Last year the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, told the people that we had turned the corner. We had certainly turned the corner, but we ran into a wall. Every turn taken since has highlighted the inability of the Government to be...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: -----yet the budgetary allocation is being cut by 56%. That is what we mean when we say someone is speaking out of both sides of his or her mouth. The people will see the true picture behind the cuts. Let us take the cuts in the RAPID programmes for the disadvantaged throughout the country, equivalent to 41%. I could go on and on, but I shall bow to the Cathaoirleach in this regard. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: I second Senator McFadden's amendment to the Order of Business and join other speakers in complimenting the gardaí on their work yesterday. They did an excellent job in upholding democracy. On Seanad reform, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government met the party leaders and others last year on that subject and he said he would have proposals in a Bill before the House...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Maurice Cummins: Everyone took part and the Minister gave an undertaking it would happen but it was swept under the carpet and now people are crying for Seanad reform. We have heard it all before.