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- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: Is that legal?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, to delete lines 15 to 49, to delete page 8 and in page 9, to delete lines 1 to 27. I raised this concern on Committee Stage and I raise it again tonight. I am very concerned about people signing on for job seeker's allowance by electronic means or telephone. We have enough fraud and I am worried about it. The Minister did not convince me during the debate...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: I am only saying what I read in the media.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: The Government saved almost â¬600 million by pursuing fraud last year. We have seen what can happen to someone's credit card.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: That does not matter. If they were supposed to sign on and did not do so, then there is something very wrong.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: I could understand why people might not have been in a position to sign on if the weather was bad. Neither I nor my party are satisfied with the proposal contained in the Bill. I accept what the Minister stated with regard to staff within the Department being freed up to do other work. However, I am concerned with regard to what will happen. Credit cards are not foolproof and we have all...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: There is a Member who used to occupy the seat in which the Minister is now sitting and who did not have a bank account at one point.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: The individual in question never put money in the bank. He was probably 20 years ahead of his time in that regard.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: On the night before my party's Ard-Fheis last year, I attended a wedding in Portugal. I carried out one transaction with my credit card in a restaurant. One month later, I discovered that an amount of either â¬2,500 or â¬4,500 - I cannot remember which - had been debited from my account. As already stated, the wedding was held in Portugal but the transaction to which I refer was carried...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: A fair few of them have gone down.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: This is no way to do business or to treat Opposition spokespeople. We do not have the resources of the Government, nor the same backup facilities. It is wrong that such amendments are introduced without our having had a prior briefing on them. It is not the way to deal with legislation. I am upset because one never knows what minefields may arise in legislation. I am disappointed by the...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: It is unsatisfactory to provide this kind of information in this way. It is unfair to me, Deputy Shortall and other speakers who must pick it up off the cuff. It is unfair that we did not have this information before now. It is unsatisfactory and I am unhappy with the way the legislation has been handled. In dealing with every other Bill that has come before the House, we got briefings...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Order for Report Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: When changes of this nature needed to be made with previous Bills, all the information on the changes would have been circulated to Members. The problem on this occasion is that we have not received such information. The problem here tonight is that everything is being done on the hoof. We need to get this sorted out. It is not satisfactory. My colleagues and I are very unhappy about...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) Bill 2010: Motion to Recommit (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: It is not agreed. I am unhappy with the procedure that has been adopted here this evening. I do not want to hold up this Stage of the Bill. I want to raise issues with the Minister on foot of amendments I have tabled. I am unhappy about what has happened here today. I have been in this House for a long time. I hope what has happened here this evening will never happen again. My...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: We are all pleased that we will have our own bonds. Some pension companies in this country have a lot of money. Some of them have invested pensioners' money very badly. There is a great deal of concern among punters whose money has been spent by such companies. Many of them have lost a great deal of money. We were told not many years ago that the safest investment one could make in this...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Report Stage (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: When we discussed the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010 on Committee Stage, I asked the Minister to give some reassurance to those who have money and resources in this country. I have been told that over â¬96 billion is being saved in this country. People are right to be worried. I asked the Minister to reassure them in relation to the post offices, in...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: On a point of order, we need a copy of the Minister's speech since we only got these amendments in the past few hours. Before he continues, I want a copy of his speech.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: I do not want the debate to go ahead without a copy of his speech because this is the first chance we have had to discuss these amendments.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: If we had even the notes, we could study them.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Instruction to Committee (14 Dec 2010)
Michael Ring: While I might not be the best on procedure in the House, this Bill has already passed Second and Committee Stages. Today, we were to take Report and Final Stages. Several hours ago, however, we were informed new amendments were to made but not on Report Stage but as a motion to instruct committee. Opposition Members are not gods. We do not have the resources of the Department behind us....