Results 53,701-53,720 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is an appalling thing to say. There are no jobs for them and the Government took away half their incomes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If the Government created employment for them, they would not be at home doing nothing.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Where are the places for them?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I know what places the Deputy has in mind.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: A sad fact.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is a sad situation.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I would be inclined to take any place after hearing what Deputy Kennedy just said. It is a sad reflection on this Government and its backbenchers.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: I apologise. He is upsetting me again.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If there was a bench Deputy Kennedy could go to, I would advise him to go to it fairly soon.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: What about the fraud in the banks?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Punish the people at the bottom of the line.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is the Government that is putting its hand in the pockets of the unfortunate, the disabled and the sick, the unemployed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy wants to make us like a police state. That is what they used to do in eastern Europe once upon a time. The Berlin Wall was taken down because of that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Does the Deputy want the Berlin Wall to go up here?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Provided their constitutional rights are upheld.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: A 300% increase in what? There has been a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Fianna Fáil took it out of the hand of the child in the cradle. Government Deputies should be ashamed of themselves.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: He brought in 20% of an increase. If Deputy Kennedy knew his history he would know that. The Deputy knows nothing about recent history, never mind past history.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Kennedy does not have a record here, he should be ashamed of what he just said.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Bernard Durkan: When there was a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation?