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Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: International surveys also show that equal societies are healthier societies and are more competitive. Consider the competitive economies in Finland and Scandinavia. Yes, they are high-tax economies and that is their choice. However, they are also much fairer societies and are more deeply competitive than ours. I want to say to Fianna Fáil that the exercise in censorship being undertaken...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: What exactly is the impact of this? Why has the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, decided to leave the primary and secondary sectors relatively untouched but to impose a 4% cut on the third level sector? We hear speeches about the smart economy, the knowledge economy, investing in third level education and trying to get a cohort of those coming out of secondary...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I find it hard to reconcile what the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, stated yesterday with what I saw in the newspapers some weeks ago about the President of this Republic attending a function hosted by a tax fugitive. What type of message on citizenship did that send out?

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We all could provide charities of our choice if we had designer taxes. That is outrageous.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Absolutely. They are not tax exiles, they are tax fugitives.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: When we see the legislation, and I note the presence in the Chamber of a senior official of the Department of Finance, I will invite the Department to consider the following because it will be very interesting to see how the detail of that provision is written. It will be hard to impose and assess. I suggest the simple additional requirement to the legislation that any tax fugitives who...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: To the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Members present I state that I know they will not hold an election soon but they could start by saying they are sorry that they screwed up, that they will try to fix it as best they can and that they will take advice when they like it from this side of the House. They receive constructive advice from this side of the House that never in its congenital life...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach spoke about how he came to the House in 1984. I remember 1984 and I remember the man who sat where the leader of the Fine Gael Party now sits, one Deputy Haughey. All we got was abuse and fantasy from a power-hungry party whose only objective was to get to the other side of the House and use the position of power. We now know that was Mr. Haughey's motivation as it is in the...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Could anybody to any worse?

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The passing of the Lisbon treaty referendum and the implementation of the new treaty provisions on 1 December has fundamentally transformed the relationship of this Parliament with the other 26 parliaments in the EU, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. It is a dramatic and fundamental constitutional change. I understand the reason this long and extensive motion, which I...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: He will not get an answer.

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (9 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Transport his estimates for transport capital spending in 2010 to 2013, inclusive; the recommendations he is making to the Minister for Finance for transport capital spending for budget 2010; his transport priorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45868/09]

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (9 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he will award the capitation grants to schools; if he will direct his officials to pay the full grant to schools at the beginning of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46156/09]

Budget Statement 2010 (9 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: All we got was the two fingers.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Ceann Comhairle may recall that on the occasion of the last budget, there was an unseemly but necessary disruption of business at the start of the speech of the Minister for Finance. Members, who are elected to this House, were deprived of information and given a lecture about what to do with the budget documentation while at the same time, members of the Press Gallery were given...

Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I wish to put on record my view on what has happened. It is very easy at this point, because of the mistakes made in the property market, to criticise the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. The treatment of the former chief executive is something which must be revisited in due course. The membership of the board is ultimately decided by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (8 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in co-operation between her Department, the Health Service Executive and the board of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin, to reduce the waiting time for heart operations at the hospital; when the proposed extra critical care beds will be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Primary Care Services: Primary Care Services (8 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary care teams in place; the number of teams operating from a single premise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45560/09]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (8 Dec 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department is involved in representing Ireland in the European Union's negotiations to sign a free trade agreement with Colombia; if she will instruct her officials to support the suspension of these negotiations in view of the high levels of human rights abuses in Colombia, specifically the...