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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator's party did a bad job of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Maurice Cummins: What about stealth taxes?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Maurice Cummins: This morning 1,500 people in Waterford, in a company called Bausch & Lomb, are waiting to see whether they will keep their jobs. It is estimated that more than 150 jobs will go. When this company went on short time a couple of months ago, I asked that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment intervene with the company to protect the jobs of the workers. To the best of my...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)

Maurice Cummins: You are forced into it.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Mar 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It is the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I assure the Acting Chairman that I will be brief. I am firmly of the view that these amendments are reasonable. I ask the Minister of State, in the interests of fairness, to consider what has been said by the proposers and other contributors. The levy is not equitable, as I argued yesterday on Second Stage. Public sector workers at the top of the scale should be the first to feel the...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: That strengthens the Senator's point.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It never worried the Senator when she was in Opposition.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: People on the other side of the House spoke about fast and furious action being needed and grasping the nettle. I could not agree more with them. This is what is needed. However, what we have seen here, in particular during recent months, is Government by report. It is waiting for the Commission on Taxation and for everything without making a proper decision. When it did make a decision...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We have but the Government is not listening.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Drug offences have soared by more than 75% in the past four years. There is a definite link between the drug trade and gangland crime. The Government has failed to tackle drug-fuelled gangland crime in recent years. People are regularly being assassinated on the streets. These people are terrorists and should be tackled as such.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: If we need further legislation to tackle this terrorist crime it should be introduced earlier rather than delaying it. We need to give the authorities all the tools necessary to tackle these terrorists. I take the opportunity to pay tribute to the unarmed gardaí who tackled gunmen last Sunday in Westmanstown. It puts into focus the work the Garda is doing on our behalf every day. We need...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We know they are not.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The younger Members have been taught well at this stage.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It was about time.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The proposed public service pension levy is unfair and unbalanced. My party voted against it in the other House. We recognise more than anybody else the need for the €2 billion in savings in current spending in 2009 and we have offered an alternative strategy. However, the Government does not seem to listen to anybody. It will not listen to the Opposition and the social partners, and...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: What is the Government doing about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Surely the Leader will accede to Senator Leyden's request.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: And pay back the money.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Hear, hear.