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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I support the comments made by Senator Healy Eames when she identified some of the measures taken by the previous Government with regard to carers in a previous budgets. The previous Government made cuts in the budget with respect to carers.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: According to budget 2013, the Government will pay ¤775 million on care in the State. I made the point on the Order of Business that, later, we will examine the legislation on property tax in this country. The property tax will raise ¤200 million in half a year and ¤500 million in a full year. It will be levied on every home in the country and will raise less money than the Government...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is very easy for Members to say that Members on this side do not care about the situation. Of course we do.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I can cite my circumstances and the circumstances of other Members on this side of the House. I am sure the Minister has her personal story. The commitment given by the Minister to review the respite care situation is important. I have had representations made by constituents and they did not focus on the loss of ¤324 but on the lack of respite care available. The Minister has agreed to...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: If it is the case that carers are being forced to use-----

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: There is a certain irony in the crocodile tears being shed by the other side of this House in relation to cuts to the respite care grant.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: This House will debate the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012 this evening, which it is estimated will raise ¤200 million in six months and approximately ¤500 million in a full year. Almost every household in the country will contribute to this. The amount raised by this tax in one year will be less than that spent on carer's benefit. The entire property tax take in this country in...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is outrageous to suggest that this Government does not care about people who have care needs.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: More money is spent on carers than will be the entire tax take in one year from the property tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have no doubt that the Opposition will cry crocodile tears about that too.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Excuse me.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is worth bearing in mind that the respite care grant will, even after these cuts, be higher than it was in 2006.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: The previous Fianna Fáil-led Government had vast resources available to it during the Celtic tiger era, which it should have spent on carers and their needs rather than on the Galway tent.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I would like to bring to the Leader's attention that there has been significant growth in the number of homeless people on foot of the disastrous economic situation brought upon us by the previous Government. I congratulate the Government on having ringfenced the money available, in particular in this budget, for homeless provision and on its adoption of a housing first approach which is...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I wish to refer to the residents of Priory Hall who, for the second year in a row and on foot of a High Court order handed down in October 2011, will spend Christmas out of their homes. Many of these people continue to pay mortgages on their properties. I ask that the Leader invite the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Jan...

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Senator Jim D'Arcy rose to propose the amendment. Am I officially seconding the amendment?

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Thank you for that clarification, a Chathaoirligh. If no one objects, I will clarify something for my colleague, Senator O'Brien, which is not something that happens very often. Fine Gael has never been in government on its own. It has only ever been in government with the Labour Party.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I am indeed.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: My humble apologies. Senator O'Donnell knows that I know who she is.