Results 12,361-12,380 of 19,409 for speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh
- 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.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Has the Minister quite finished?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister would let me address her-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not withdraw a remark made on "Prime Time" on RTE by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, who said-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister should have it out with the Minister for Finance.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not believe-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister shut up for a second, I might do that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister was not so ignorant, so impolite-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----and insulting, she might give me an opportunity to let her know that I do not believe anybody on social welfare is wayward or a scrounger.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is the one who is declaring that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Minister-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I withdraw nothing because I did not make that charge. The Minister made that charge. The Minister has no understanding of disability. She needs to get one of those hearing aids she is cutting from many people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In 2010-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The truth hurts.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope the Acting Chairman will credit me with some of the time the Minister is using from my slot.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not a point of order.