Results 5,061-5,080 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, my name is on the list of those opposing the section. I am the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on this and surely I am entitled to say a few words on it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I have something to say on this, because I could not speak on section 3 due to the guillotine. This is a mirror image of section 3. If a person is entitled to illness benefit or injury benefit, the Minister is cutting-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am not accepting that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Opposition are entitled-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: My name is on the list of those opposed to section 3 and this section. I have not had the opportunity to speak on either. Is that the new democratic revolution?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This is Dáil reform.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We know the Minister's views.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister should allows us express our view, not just mine but the views of all those other Deputies whose names are on the amendment of opposition to this section.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: He is entitled.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: As we are discussing sections 5 and 6 together, whatever we say about section 5 is equally applicable to section 6, which deals with adoptive leave. I am opposed to these sections. Let us consider what has happened to maternity benefit in less than 12 months. In last year's budget, the Minister for Finance decided, for the first time in history, that maternity benefit was to be taxed at...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: They should be discussed, not set out in law. The Minister should not be dishonest about what we are seeking.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Am I correct in stating that there is a time motion in play here?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, the time for this debate is limited.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: This part of the debate was supposed to conclude at 10.30 a.m.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We started proceedings at 10 a.m.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: If the Minister is going to persist in not answering any of the questions asked and is instead going to continue to discuss matters which are irrelevant-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 21, after "income" to insert "in excess of €6,000".On amendment No. 3, which was ruled out of order, the purpose of the proposal was to compel the House to discuss all proposed changes to the household benefits package. The legislation makes no such provision. Will the Minister indicate on what basis changes are made to the household benefits...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Currently, if somebody is forced to rely on illness benefit, the first three days are not paid. The employer is supposed to handle that. That has been extended to six days. There are two possibilities here. If the employer has a sick pay scheme, he or she will have to pony up. This will result on an extra cost on employers at a time when there are 32 applicants for every available job...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am irreconcilably opposed to this Bill. Not only am I opposed to the unseemly haste with which it is being rammed through this House by the use of the guillotine, I am also fundamentally opposed to its provisions because they form the centrepiece of this Government's third regressive budget in a row. In the budgetary context, when an adjustment is needed and money is taken out of the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, I wish to state in protest against the way this is being rammed through-----