Results 6,201-6,220 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government is in a hole and it cannot climb out.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: When?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: One would think it could have been scoped out before the announcement last November. The Government had two years to do it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Government is making it up as it goes along.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: It is not capable of delivering this.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: The cost was obviously not discussed.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: Yesterday, I received information under a freedom of information request from the Department of Social Protection, as did RTE. It was very revealing by virtue of the fact that it was written by a civil servant. It was sent by the Secretary General of that Department to the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It did not contain much of the Government spin...
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: In summing up this debate I pay tribute to and thank those who have contributed, in the main, to it. The role of all of us here, based on the mandate we have been given by the electorate, is to produce and enact legislation which can address the difficulties and the issues pertaining to those we represent in various areas across society. As Opposition Members our job is to hold Government...
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: -----there were headline issues that jumped out of the page, which I will read into the record again.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: First, there was a €3.4 billion tax package contained in it-----
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: -----in the spring of 2007.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: Second, there was a €500 million stamp duty package to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: At the height of the boom is right.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: There was not a mention of banks or regulation. This was from the party which tells us now it had all the answers back in 2007 but nobody would listen to it. As soon as we stand up and offer solutions to the problems that exist for those we represent-----
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: The Deputy's manifesto in 2007-----
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: For all the knowledge they have now and all the benefit of hindsight they have gathered in the meantime, when they checked their own manifesto and realised they had not mentioned regulation or banks, they said it was time to get that off the web page.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: What they were doing was piling fuel on the bubble in the hope that it would blow under our stewardship so that they could give the impression that what they were saying all along was right and proper. Facts are facts, Deputy.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: If she wants to look at them, she should check it out.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: They are the facts.
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Barry Cowen: If I am a disgrace, what were Deputy Doherty and the likes of her in her party-----