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- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: I have two simple questions. How many people will this affect?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: How much money will be saved? I find it unbelievable that the Minister and her officials are unable to answer those questions.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Put the question.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: I welcome its withdrawal.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: At last we press the eject button. We are no longer pausing or rewinding.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: The cuts to the one-parent allowance impact particularly on mothers. They severely penalise those recipients who make the effort to upskill or join community employment schemes. The Government is sending the message to one-parent families that upskilling to try to get into the workplace is to be discouraged. More than 90% of the recipients of the one-parent family payment are women. These...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Have a Kitkat.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: The Minister of State should not forget the Kitkat.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: No, it is the opposite.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: By Ministers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: And barracks.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Government Deputies ask for more time. Why did the Government not allow more time?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Deputy Byrne is a brave woman.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Hear, hear.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: You are contradicting yourself now. You are digging a hole.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: You never said a word during her speech.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: Deputy McGrath raised it.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: It sets the context.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: We will hear about it at our clinics tomorrow.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Barry Cowen: It is about the manner in which the Bill is being rammed through the House.