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- Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I have been in the House a long time and yesterday was as rough a day as I have ever seen for public service workers. Like the rest of us, they know that the country is in dire financial straits. They know, as I do, that they did not cause the problem.
- Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: That is the problem the Minister of State present will encounter when he travels around the country to defend what the Government has done. People comment on the unfairness of these measures, which started last October â rather than yesterday â when the budget was delivered. At the time the Government saw no difference between a person earning â¬17,000 and â¬99,000 as far as the 1%...
- Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: It could not see any difference yesterday either, which is a problem. We know the country is in a terrible state. I never thought I would see a time when 36,000 would lose their jobs in one month. There is talk of 400,000 being out of a job at the end of the year. If events unfold at the same rate, we will be in the unspeakable and unthinkable realm of having 500,000 out of work next...
- Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: When they see the people who created the problemââ
- Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: ââbankers and big builders â getting off scot free, while those who keep the country going are screwed into the ground, the Government will have a problem on its hands.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: The Taoiseach has no answers.
- Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 360: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an application form in respect of the new house insulation grant will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3434/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 374: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted house grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3030/09]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a hardship grant has not been awarded in view of the fact that reactors were found in a herd belonging to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3435/09]
- Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if young farmers who had their farms transferred to them but had not applied for the installation aid grant will have their cases examined in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3436/09]
- Written Answers — Installation Aid Scheme: Installation Aid Scheme (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Galway had inherited the farm from their father and was in the process of making application for the installation aid for young farmers when the scheme was withdrawn; if cases such as this are being examined in his Department; and if he...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on re-routing a school bus at Ballymoe, County Galway which would take in the villages of Cloonruff, Cornamuckla, Treanboy, Turla and Knockagonnell which brings 15 fare paying children to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3439/09]
- Energy Prices: Motion (3 Feb 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Coveney, who has a great personal interest in this topic. I consider this country's lack of competitiveness in the economy to be the ruination of the State. I recall the 1990s when our competitiveness in terms of industrial development and output was as good as that in the best of countries. The products we exported abroad were at a premium but then what...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the 20 year Irish language strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2709/09]
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: I wish well those involved in the social partnership talks. For obvious reasons, we hope there will be a good outcome. In the 30 years during which I have been a Member of the Oireachtas, I have never seen such mishandling of an economy as I have seen this year. The social unrest we notice throughout the country today emanated from this House when the budget was brought forward to October....
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: Deputy Ahern need not worry, we will tell them what he had to say.
- Accident and Emergency Services. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: It is all about money.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: We must hang in long enough then.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: When will the Minister pay the cheques? He should simply pay the cheques.
- Farm Waste Management. (28 Jan 2009)
Paul Connaughton Snr: It is a breach of contracts.