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Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: She has done nothing for home helps.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: The ESB and VHI charges.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Minihan stole Senator White's thunder.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Live horse and you'll get grass.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: It will be 2010 before the places become available.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: We are living in 2005.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Where is it in the statement? Is the Senator lost?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: What page is that?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: It will not.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Does Senator White have her next item?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Minihan——

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, who is fresh from the midlands. I understand he was down there delivering leaflets all afternoon, as he usually does on the day of a budget.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: According to George and Wilding in Welfare and Ideology, public choice theorists stress two forces driving interventionism forward: first, the competition between parties for votes — we had an example of that here this morning between Senators Minihan and White — which stimulates parties to promise more and more, and, second, the self-interested budget maximising behaviour of bureaucrats...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: ——who is here with us this evening, was in touch with a radio station in the midlands yesterday and I want to know how many other Ministers and Government Deputies are doing the same at the taxpayers' expense.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: It is they who are the real culprits and we have evidence. The Minister of State did not deny it this morning on the radio.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: The Minister of State did not deny it this morning on the radio.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: We in the midlands have had several quick fixes by the Minister of State in recent times. The leaflet drops before the budget was even announced——

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Most definitely, that is correct. I saw them before the budget was even announced.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Housing is one area on which the Government is not singing loud self-praise. Even the Government cannot spin that one. As I have stated many times in this House, every morning as I walk towards Kildare Street I pass at least half a dozen people sleeping in doorways, victims of a system that favours the rich at the expense of the poor and the vulnerable in society. This heartless Government is...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2005: Motion. (7 Dec 2005)

James Bannon: Since 1997, there has been a series of stealth taxes imposed by this Government. Grants, such as the disabled person's grant and the essential repairs grant, are now an insult to the people who rely on such provisions. In my constituency, one disabled man who qualified for a necessary extension to his home received builders' quotes of €32,000, €34,000 and €35,000. The grant he received...