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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It is 104.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: They have not gone to get a sun tan.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Self-employed people or those paying PAYE who go into State employment are not aware that they can make voluntary contributions. Is there a mechanism whereby they can back pay their voluntary contributions to qualify for a State pension as they approach retirement age? There may be people who were not aware that they could pay voluntary contributions on arriving in this House or going into...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: There is an awful lot of shouting. Senator O'Malley was Acting Chairman earlier and she was trying to stop us all.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I should treat Senator Butler's comments with the contempt they deserve, but they need to be answered. He said the Fine Gael policies had not been costed or were fairytales. The Fine Gael policies advocated last Friday week were clear, had been costed and were about choices as to whether we hit the most vulnerable in the community or else taxed the wealthy. We advocated abolishing the cap...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Tánaiste said that was rubbish.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: They would do well to remember that.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: They will certainly hold the Government accountable at the next election.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We did not recommend cutting child benefit.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: No. The Minister should read the document.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: And bond holders and the bankers.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator's party seems to have something against stags.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Bill before us is a tax on the poor, a charter for young people to emigrate and lacks fairness, imposing harsh measures on those who need our support. Looking at a court case yesterday, I ask where are the Government's and the banks' pledges to protect mortgage holders. A couple from Waterford with a special needs son lost their home, even after promising to pay €800 per month. These...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: -----and then they try to compound it by suggesting they are not including people over 65. The Government is taking it from them by not giving them their Christmas bonus. It is an untruth to say that the Government is not hitting people over 65 as well as all the people I have mentioned. The Government is taking the Christmas bonus from them and hitting those people as well. This is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Government caused enough of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We took it off, but that was many years ago.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It is not acceptable to change the Order of Business in that way. This is one of the problems we have had during recent weeks.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Yes.

Seanad: Report on Implementation of the Lisbon Treaty: Motion (10 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Not unless Members are given an assurance that a debate will be held on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The faith and trust that people put in this Government have been misused and abused, given what we saw yesterday. We saw a savage attack on young people. It is a budget for emigration, telling young people that they are not wanted in this country. It is an attack on the most vulnerable, including cutting rates to blind people by €8.30. Carer's allowance has been cut. These are the...