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- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: What about my second question?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: Is he satisfied with the role of a senior public servant?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Government said there would be a review.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: In April 2013, on Bloomberg TV, Wilbur Ross, the American vulture capitalist, described Bank of Ireland as his best investment anywhere in the world during the financial crisis. In July 2011 the Government sold State shares in Bank of Ireland to a consortium of North American vulture capitalists for €1.123 billion. The effect of the sale is that the State now owns 15% of Bank of...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: 568. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in internship schemes and self-employment support schemes on 30 June 2012; and the number of persons participation in the same schemes on 30 June 30 2013. [46874/13]
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am very aware of the fact that the Minister is taking €850 off people whose spouses have died.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Government is also reducing the exceptional needs payment-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: This Bill is targeting less well off people, effectively making middle- and lower-income families pay for the recession. I simply do not know how a Labour Party Minister can introduce these cuts to adoptive leave and maternity benefit. Not too long ago, the Minister for Finance told me that the top 10,000 earners in this country have average earnings of €595,000 per year, while the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----yet we have no wealth tax. This is the second year in a row that maternity benefit has been targeted. Last year, it was hit by tax at 41% in most cases. Deputy O'Dea gave a figure for that. I am not quite sure if it is the exact figure, but it is a significant figure anyway. This year, maternity benefit will be cut by €32 per week. We are told that the payment is being...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: On a point of order, the clock is at zero.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has stopped us speaking with a guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: Is she entitled to keep speaking?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: On the basis of the order of the Dáil yesterday and today-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, I am asking for a ruling on a point of order.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am talking about the time. The Minister should have stopped by now.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has introduced a guillotine.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: Yes; please do so. I would appreciate it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am talking about the time.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am speaking about the time.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Séamus Healy: What about next week? What about Second Stage?