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European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate but it is unfortunate that we do not have more time to contribute to it. The crisis that has enveloped Europe during the past year or year and a half should require and demand a much greater level of scrutiny and discussion in this House in particular. We talk a good deal about the necessity to remain engaged with Europe but we become...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We did. We got changes that were going to be made for other member states anyway. With the greatest of respect, the Government was negotiating at a particular level-----

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: You woke up one morning and got a deal in the post that you could not believe because other member states were negotiating it.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: You know the facts.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: You were negotiating a particular interest rate that was surpassed by the efforts of others because it was being done on a broader level.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: You have sought to dress this up-----

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: -----and we will run with you. My central point is that the Irish Government needs to engage more fully-----

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: This is not about photo opportunities or being seen going in and out of meetings and looking good on the red carpet.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: This is not the Oscars; it is a community that requires a much better level of engagement and the Government has failed utterly in this regard.

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this debate. This is a budget of severe cuts across many headings and those losing out will need time to assess its impact fully. Far from the transparency promised by Fine Gael and Labour in opposition, their first opportunity to present a budget has given us a slew of stealth taxes and increased charges wrapped in a Christmas stocking. This...

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I understand how it works but I do not intend to take a lecture from Deputy Varadkar or any of his colleagues in terms of painting a dark caricature of Fianna Fáil-----

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: -----and somehow create a cool clean hero image of people who came to power to solve problems and who will do things differently. Fine Gael bought the last election and put together many outlandish proposals it has not been prepared to stand behind.

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Fine Gael engaged in cynical politics to suggest that €1 billion in savings could be found from non-pay and administrative costs.

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: It was cynical in the extreme to make these proposals and seek to buy the electorate. It has been done but the people will not buy it. It was cynical in the extreme to suggest senior bondholders would be burned when the Government has followed the same policies as the last Government in respect of the bank guarantee scheme and burning bondholders. I understand why the Government has to do...

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I am not having a go at the Minister, who has always reflected carefully on what he has said in this House. However, some of the young cubs have gotten loose from the leash on this occasion and it does not sit well with the Government or this House in terms of new politics and the transparency we were promised.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We could not agree to that.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: It is an outrageous attack on democracy.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: These resolutions are being rail-roaded through.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: As spokesperson on transport, I am deeply concerned by this measure. On entering Government, the Taoiseach stated he would do things differently and there would be a new way of doing business. However, the old reliables are being hit again. When this measure is taken into consideration with the increase of VAT on fuel, its impact will be to make the transport sector significantly less...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (6 Dec 2011)

Timmy Dooley: The Taoiseach should be given a minute.