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- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Some £90,000 sterling a year.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Some £90,000 sterling a year for non-attendance at Westminster.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Some £90,000 sterling a year for non-attendance at Westminster.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Those payments are in sterling.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: What about Pat Doherty?
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Does that apply at Westminster?
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy McGrath was Bertie's cheerleader.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: When it is made by Sinn Féin.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Here is a lesson: do not believe everything you read in the newspaper.
- Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: They were outside Stormont too.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: There have been cuts in the North.
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for children from Belarus who come to Ireland to live with foster families to receive financial support towards their education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38062/11]
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for additional quota in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [37834/11]
- Written Answers — Milk Quota: Milk Quota (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is likely to be a surplus of quota left over at the end of the year to be distributed to over-quota producers as part of the flexi-milk system. [37843/11]
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37984/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: There are many similarities between this jurisdiction and Northern Ireland. The funding for Northern Ireland comes from the Westminster Parliament in an annual envelope and for the past 12 months, our funding has come from a troika in an annual envelope. We are no longer the authors of our own destiny, no more than the representatives of the Northern Ireland Executive are a sovereign...
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: It is like listening to a foreign radio channel on my left. I agree with a point made by Deputy Derek Nolan. I worked in the area of education and I know there is a lot more to child neglect than is caused by the level of income of a family. One must take a holistic approach to any discussion of child welfare. Why, when thousands of euro from the State coffers are going into some...
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Government volunteered the services of the Department of Finance to cost any such proposals but the Opposition will not produce any. The cheap seats are always the easiest seats and those who say they do not want to do this or that are seated in them. We want to fix the deficit, however. We have listened to suggestions that we take the Bolivian or Argentinian route, which would mean...
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: To use the words of a person who graced these corridors once upon a time this is a case of, "Crisis, what crisis?" Members of the public are neither fools nor stupid. They know that if one is earning â¬500 per week but spending â¬800, one must choose between borrowing or cutting expenditure.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
Patrick O'Donovan: Like our friends north of the Border, we no longer have the capability to borrow and are beholden to three institutions which have come to our assistance, namely, the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission. Our friends in Sinn Féin would have us tell these institutions to go home because we can manage our own affairs. I want to have a functioning social...