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- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: The Fianna Fáil Members opposite could learn a great deal from their colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath. I do not agree with what he says but I appreciate that he has a restrained style and that it is a more effective way of making his points in debate-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: -----than the sort of loud-mouthing we often have here and that we are hearing now from the Opposition.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Could I say-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: If I could finish my sentence, all of us welcome the genuine engagement, especially on "Prime Time" last night, between the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and Deputy Michael McGrath. In the course of a genuinely respectful exchange, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, made the point about the disability allowance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: All of us are keen to see a constructive debate through genuine engagement and changes made to ensure that young persons with disabilities are not disadvantaged unduly by the change to align different rates of disability and social welfare payments. This is an important point about respectful engagement in the House. I compliment Senator Feargal Quinn who referred to the issue of central...
- Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, I was here-----
- Seanad: Budget 2012: Statements (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, I was here at 6 o'clock for the entirety of the Minister's contribution, unlike other Senators.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Alternatives must be credible.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: In that case, it should not have signed up to the IMF-EU deal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Senator O'Brien does it all the time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: I am not clear to what Senator O'Brien's amendment to the Order of Business relates.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: It is a matter of grave concern that ratings agencies are considering downgrading the credit ratings of almost all of the eurozone member states, including our own. It puts into perspective the very difficult decisions that had to be made in the budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: We are dealing with extreme difficulties across the eurozone and a financial crisis in this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: In regard to Senator O'Brien's point on the disability allowance, that a budget which is brought forward in such a difficult economic climate does not include a reduction in either the basic rate of social welfare payment or of child benefit must be seen as a significant achievement.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Let us not forget that the cuts in social protection are â¬190 million less than what was projected in the plan for last year. There has been a significant safeguarding of the social protection budget in the face of extreme constraints.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: We will have a full debate on the changes to the disability allowance. They are being made in the context of structural changes the Minister is making-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: -----in order to ensure that everybody has an entitlement to one weekly income support payment only. She is trying to align different social welfare payments. Her objective is to ensure that the rate of payment for claimants of disability allowance is aligned with the jobseeker's allowance in order to discourage people from entering training or employment at a very young age.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Furthermore, and some Members seem to have missed the small print on this, the Minister is introducing a compensatory measure whereby the entitlement to domiciliary care allowance will be extended to 16 and 17 year olds.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: Under the new arrangement, 16 and 17 year olds will qualify for the domiciliary care allowance.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)
Ivana Bacik: My second point relates to another extremely serious and topical matter, namely, the climate change talks currently taking place in Durban.