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Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It is nothing.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I cannot understand how this resolution has come before the House tonight. We have been waiting a long time for a White Paper on universal health insurance. There was a commitment from the Minister in the context of making sure families would not be under undue pressure yet, time and again, we see a relentless rise in health insurance premia for ordinary families. The Minister, Deputy...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: This is a missed opportunity. We have been speaking for a long time about public health policy in the context of alcohol consumption and the damage it causes to broader society. This is an increase in excise that will affect the off-trade and the on-trade equally. There was an opportunity to address the off-trade and below-cost selling, consider the introduction of minimum pricing and deal...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: There is no detail so far.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: When will the Government announce the cuts in detail?

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: There are no training courses for them.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister denied that last week.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is not what the Deputy and his party said before the election.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: You said we did not spend enough.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Now for the broken promises.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Tánaiste very much.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: No.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: We have raised this particular issue on a number of occasions. We talk about democratic revolutions and making the committees and Parliament more important in the context of our democratic revolution.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: Let us be very clear-----

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: -----what is being proposed is the removal of a Member because he fell out with the Labour Party leadership. It has nothing to do with the make-up of the committee membership. It is because a certain Deputy, Deputy Colm Keaveney, had a strong belief in his own views, in his own political ideology and in the view that the Labour Party had broken commitments made to the people.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: That is the reason we are having this debate.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: It has nothing to do with the membership of the committee. It has to do with the fact that Deputy Colm Keaveney fell out with the Labour Party leadership. Let us be quite clear about that.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: If that is the case, what we are being asked to do is to bring internal Labour Party politics into a committee without any debate in the context of why a Member who was appointed by the Houses-----

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I have very good time for Deputy Willie Penrose and I definitely believe he would make a very good member of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, but this motion is being taken without debate. I would like to know why Deputy Colm Keaveney is not considered to be a member of good standing and why he cannot remain on the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I would like to know that.