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Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Another Bill on which the Government has been working for approximately 12 years is the bus licensing Bill. Will we have an opportunity before the session ends today to discuss the incredible Dempsey bus cutbacks which were listed this morning?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: We have lost approximately 60 routes and 1,000 journeys; it is another disaster from Deputy Dempsey. People will be walking to work next week and it is not a laughing matter.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (9 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of local and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Transport to ensure that vital Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann fleets and services are fully maintained and protected; to abandon the appalling programmes of bus cutbacks, which were apparently confirmed last night or this morning, in light of the...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I intend to address transport issues and the bail-out of the banks. Earlier today I witnessed the pathetic attempts by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Ryan, to explain his wretched party's decision to support the bail-out. Last night, the Green Party crossed the Rubicon. Not only is it propping up the efforts of Fianna Fáil to bail out its developer...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: It is only a drop in the ocean.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The two Cork constituencies.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: There are 400,000 people unemployed.

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the operation of the cycle to work scheme in his Department; if all agencies under the remit of his Department will be included in the scheme; if not, the reason for same; the State agencies under the remit of his Department currently offering this scheme to employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14158/09]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people allocated funds from the back to work enterprise allowance scheme to enter the taxi industry in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; the value of funding allocated through the BTWEA for people entering the taxi industry in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14094/09]

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: I support the remarks of my party leader and Deputy Higgins. The story of the budget has been one of a savage attack on the incomes of working people in particular and on people who live on social welfare benefits. That is its fundamental impact. There is major anger which is now boiling over in people and we have heard it on the phones and in e-mails. I met a person who was weeping...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: -----and indebted our people for decades and perhaps generations? Was the Department of Finance on the bridge when that happened? How can I accept its predictions when it has been wrong year after year on so many issues, including tax returns and gross domestic product? Will the yield, for example, be a great deal higher than it predicts? We had the balance right when we were in the...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: It does not work anymore. We are now trying desperately to rebuild a different model. There were parts of the world in which that rotten, corrupt style of capitalism, the Anglo-Saxon model, never really took hold. One could cite, for example, the Scandinavian democracies. Proudly led, for the most part, by Labour Party or social democratic Governments, they were prepared to find the right...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The Labour Party is of the view that wealth should be shared.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Fair play.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The overall impact of this budget is profoundly deflationary on an economy that is already going down the tubes. Resolution No. 4 on transport will increase the magnitude of that deflationary impact. The tragedy is that we seem to be doing it to bail out the friends of the Tánaiste, her Government and party.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: The documents on the banking rackets are profoundly disturbing. They are the most outrageous feature of this outrageous budget. Resolution No. 4 is another whammy for public transport and the transport industry after a series of measures this Government has taken. For example, all last year the Government had the opportunity to do something about the withdrawal by the European Union of the...

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.