Results 12,361-12,380 of 19,424 for speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Not for community employment schemes; it is slashing the training budget.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thought this was a technical issue about the sitting?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I live here. I was born and bred here. I did not come down from anywhere.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is silly. I am not from the North.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You need a geography lesson.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not the reality.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We still have choices.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is all our fault again.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It will be sooner than you think at the rate you are going.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I would prefer to be Minister for Justice.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thought you said it was bankrupt already.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Some mistakes.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In fairness, the Deputy has just done that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mea culpa.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Despite the clear and categoric promises that Labour Party candidates made during the election, this Bill cuts the child benefit paid to almost a quarter of all families. Commencing in January, child benefit for the third and fourth child will be slashed over the course of two years. Child benefit for a family with three children will be cut by â¬27 and child benefit for a family with four...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Before the election, the Labour Party promised to protect those on low incomes from further cuts. Its candidates across the State proclaimed that child benefit was a red line issue and that social welfare rates were sacrosanct. Labour secured its election on the back of those promises, but no sooner were the votes counted than the Labour Party turned its back on the thousands of struggling...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In addition, it is important to point out that â¬1.25 billion will be paid over by the Government to faceless gamblers on 25 January for unsecured, unguaranteed bonds. In March, a further â¬3 billion will be handed over.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These figures speak volumes. Consider these figures against the Department's total cuts. The Government has a choice. It does not have to hand over that money. However, it has made a political choice, to hit the weakest in society and at the same time to hand over that money. The Minister could have chosen to increase social welfare payments, if the Government had withheld that money, as...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, was the one who raised that.