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- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I thank the Acting Chairman. Important business awaits me across the road but I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy à CuÃv, on his appointment. I have known the Minister for many years and, particularly in his last role as Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, he introduced a number of initiatives with the intention of...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: How much time do I have left?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I will continue for four minutes and if other speakers come in, they can contribute, otherwise the Minister may want to conclude the Bill.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: It will be a while yet before the decision so I will be all right for that. I hope the Minister will be compassionate. These are difficult times for people. I do not want to see the weak and poor further disadvantaged. The social welfare budget is approximately â¬20 billion. We have given â¬22 billion to the banks. While I accept there needed to be a cut in every Department, it is the...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Those people were never in the Galway tent.
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Yesterday the directors of Anglo Irish Bank appeared before Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service. They confirmed to the committee that â¬22 billion of taxpayers' money had already gone into that bank. It was appalling to hear that much of that money will not be recovered by the taxpayers.
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I have a question. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to give me some latitude this morning because I will be doing this for a long time. Does the Government plan to continue the taxpayers' guarantee for existing bond investors in Anglo Irish Bank after September? The â¬22 billion represents three times the budget for the Department of Education and Skills. It is outrageous that taxpayers are...
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I have two questions. With regard to the Ãdarás na Gaeltachta Bill, the elections were to be held this year, so will the legislation changing the law on the periods come before the House? When will it come before the House as people want to know if the election will be postponed this year? The head shops legislation is very important. As Deputy Gilmore stated, in the last week of the...
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: And it was clean.
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I oppose the guillotine on the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010. This is an important Bill and we want more time to discuss it because it is having an awful effect on the poor. Members of this side of the House are fed up with supplying money to the banks and taking it from the poor. We oppose the motion and call for a vote on it.
- Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I would have no problem with Deputy Gilmore as my Tánaiste.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I wish to share time with Deputies Perry and O'Donnell.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: I wish to begin by speaking about these reports. Anyone who has listened to certain economists over recent years will wonder whether they are living in the real world. Many economists told us the boom would last for another 14 or 15 years. It is hard to believe economists. The same guys are now preaching and blaming everybody. The economists who were advising the Government, the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: The Taoiseach has the country under pressure, I can assure him.
- Written Answers — Employment Figures: Employment Figures (15 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs created by the assistance of the Industrial Development Authority in County Mayo on a year by year basis for the past five years in tabular form; the breakdown of the jobs that were lost in County Mayo for the same period; the companies that lost or increased jobs for the past five years; and the number...
- Written Answers — Employment Figures: Employment Figures (15 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of occasions that an agency (details supplied) has brought industrialists to visit locations in County Mayo in the past five years in tabular format. [25531/10]
- Written Answers — Employment Figures: Employment Figures (15 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of occasions that representatives from an agency (details supplied) has visited County Mayo in the past five years in tabular format. [25537/10]
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (15 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax-take on a specific price range of vehicles (details supplied) in the past year in tabular format. [25521/10]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Jun 2010)
Michael Ring: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved medical cards. [25230/10]