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Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: In the course of the past year, the Tánaiste and his party made much of the need to abolish upward-only rent reviews for existing leases. The jobs initiative appears to be silent on that matter. I would be grateful if the Tánaiste would inform the House whether legislation is due on that issue as there are many people who expect him to deliver on it.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We are back to that.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: That would be a first.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Is the Deputy not left-wing?

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: The Labour Party has moved to the right.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Do not be embarrassed by your own party.

Order of Business (12 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I am not the Ceann Comhairle, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not get your salary.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: He is redundant.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: They knew this for a long time. They got elected on the back of it.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister accept the drop in numbers had more to do with the fact that Irish people were not travelling?

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I thought the parish pump was gone under this new Government.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Is that so?

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Joe McHugh better be careful they do not go on the electoral register in Donegal.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Sherlock is a poor wing man for the main man.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I will take it further.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: I, too, welcome the opportunity to discuss this important initiative brought forward by Government. Like other speakers, as a constructive parliamentarian newly in Opposition I believe it behoves us all to try to be constructive in terms of working through the initiatives and ideas that come forward. As my former colleague in the Seanad, Deputy Joe McHugh, said earlier, we should not try to...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Notwithstanding their abhorrence of the notion of continued capitalisation of banks, the presentation of the strategic investment bank in the programme for Government seems to have satisfied their concerns about bailing out the banks and not burning bondholders. However, that is for another discussion. We all know the importance of getting our banks functioning. One of the key things the...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: We are not going to get that. We are going to get a continuance of the three card trick. They have now turned jobs into the three card trick. They presented them prior to the election, dangled them around and waved them under different agendas but, like the punter at the races, when the money is put down the queen disappears. The jobs have disappeared, sadly, on this occasion.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: However, there will be further opportunities for the Government.

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (11 May 2011)

Timmy Dooley: Fine Gael has missed Deputy Mathews's initiative on banking. Perhaps they will take it up at some point in the future.