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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I heard today that people on State pensions will not be entitled to——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: Fine Gael's health spokesperson negotiated it on behalf of the IMO.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I hope the Leader will arrange a debate on this matter to clarify that people on State pensions with the medical card will continue to hold the card. The only certainty is that those on incomes of more than €650 per week will not have any cover by way of the medical card, the doctor only card or €400 per week. If Members of the Opposition would like to justify why people on that income...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——I would like to hear it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: In terms of who goes——

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I will reiterate the call for clarity because confusion exists. Perhaps the budget has not been well handled, but much of the confusion has been implanted by misleading statements by those trying to make political capital out of the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: The IMO was four times the level.

Seanad: Report on EU Climate-Energy Package: Statements (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: Dark green.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I accept what Senator Ross says in terms of taking a strategic approach in terms of whether one accepts or rejects what is proposed in this budget. That is preferable to the usual knee-jerk reaction that accompanies debates like this. Senator Ross's contribution was based on a particular economic view of how we should be proceeding. I do not claim to be an expert on Marx but a Marxist...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I read the Labour Party proposals, and they are a Keynesian analysis that we can spend our way out of the current situation. That raises the obvious question of which money we spend to achieve that desired end. Yesterday's budget, which we will discuss in greater detail later, clearly shows we do not have that money to spend, and it is not a short-term response. If the response is a larger...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: It is a lot of it, and there is no surprise there either. Regarding employment, we must discuss the state of the global economy. In the United States, the national debt clock that measured their debt in trillions of dollars has become obsolete because the debt has moved into the quadrillion category and the clock does not measure the size of the debt any more. The United States has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: It did.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: That is expensive.

Seanad: Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Statements (9 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. Given the times in which we find ourselves, this is a very useful debate. There is no doubt we live in a global economy where the issue of debt is affecting nations and large institutions and we know that within our own society the level of personal debt is at an historic high. The value of the service provided by the money advice and budgeting...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: The Senator said it first. It is no news to us.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: We are against carbon footprints.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: As an ecumenical gesture, I would like to share time with Senator McCarthy.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: While I understand much of what this evening's Private Members' motion is trying to achieve, I feel that Fine Gael has adopted too much of a scattergun approach. The wording of the motion does not make it clear whether Fine Gael's primary concern is the size of the capitation fee, the level of infrastructural spending on school buildings or the extent of additional expenditure on IT matters....

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——an insult to the developing world.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: The idea that anything is of a "Third World standard" prejudges the kind of standard that exists in many countries. While I agree that our ICT infrastructure is not what it should be, I understand that the Departments of Education and Science and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources have an innovative initiative in the pipeline, to be announced in the coming months. I hope the...