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Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: How much is a bag of coal?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: I thought we needed a diplomatic person in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: The Minister needs to depend on Deputy Healy-Rae for his seat.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: Who sacked the Minister of State?

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: We are being provoked by the Minister.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: I wish to share time with Deputies Kehoe and Pat Breen. I note that the senior Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, discarded his script which included a piece on decentralisation. Then the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, who has responsibility for decentralisation, spoke but did not refer to decentralisation. The word "decentralisation" was great and I remember the Fianna Fáil choir playing the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: Will Deputy Conor Lenihan eat a bag of chips and keep quiet? Every time he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it and he had to apologise again this morning. One of my colleagues will find a bag of chips for him.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: The word "decentralisation" was a buzz word and this week the Minister decentralised 100 jobs from Mayo, the county I represent. I thought decentralisation involved moving jobs and people out of Dublin to rural Ireland. I am disappointed the west of Ireland Minister of State, Deputy Treacy, allowed 100 jobs to be move from the Department of Agriculture and Food in Castlebar to Portlaoise....

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: Deputy Parlon is the man who put up posters welcoming people to Parlon country.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: Those signs will be rotten and the Deputy Parlon will be rotting in the ground before the jobs are decentralised.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: I refer to provision for social welfare in this budget and the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, who spoke earlier.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: The Government tried to push him out of the Cabinet as well. He was the reluctant Minister who needed Deputy Walsh's support to remain in office. I have time for Deputy Brennan because he is not as arrogant as the rest of them. I have listened to arrogance all day and the people are waiting for Fianna Fáil. People expect arrogance from the Progressive Democrats. This budget was a wasted...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: We will decentralise Deputy Parlon when we replace him with Mr. Charlie Flanagan after the next election. The budget was announced yesterday and I hope that next week we do not have increases in fuel prices and by the ESB as we had on three occasions in the past year. It is no wonder the Government sought to protect people on low incomes by giving them €17 yesterday. Does Deputy Conor...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: You go for your chips. I know you do not like kebabs. Have the chips. The chips are safe enough and you will not offend anyone with the chips.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: I have been provoked and I do not like to be provoked.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: Deputy Conor Lenihan hates the truth. The people are waiting for him. I spoke to Deputy O'Connor, who could be a Minister of State tomorrow. We could have two Ministers of State in the constituency to try to save Deputy Conor Lenihan. Deputy O'Connor has such a strong vote that he will try to bring Deputy Lenihan in, but that will not happen because Senator Brian Hayes will take a seat.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: This budget was a wasted opportunity but there is such a crowd of wasters on the Government side that it does not surprise me. The people have been feeling the pinch for the past few years. We have seen rip-off Ireland, in which the poor get poorer, the rich, whom the Government loves, get richer and the middle class gets squeezed. This budget has done nothing for the poor and the middle...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: On a point of order, I wish to point out that I was supposed to speak next. The least the Chair could do is apologise after I have sat here for an hour.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: My comment was addressed to the Chair rather than Deputy Broughan.

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Michael Ring: I refer not to Deputy Cowley but to the previous Chair. I should at least get an apology.