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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: What about next week? What about Second Stage?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Government said there would be no guillotines, except for emergency legislation.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Two out of every three Bills have been guillotined by this Government.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Government is a disgrace. This a very important Bill and the Government has guillotined it again.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I will, certainly. Thank you.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I have no respect for this Government, a Cheann Comhairle.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Government is targeting sick people.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am sorry, but is my name not on the roster?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I indicated and the Ceann Comhairle nodded.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I indicated that I wanted to speak.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has guillotined this debate. I have no sympathy for the Minister in that regard. I indicated that I wished to speak and the Ceann Comhairle nodded.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: On point of order, it is obvious to everybody here that today's proceedings will be an absolute shambles.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has reduced the value of those pensions over three budgets.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: A guillotine is being applied.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I refer to amendment No. 3, which was ruled out of order. Will the Minister explain-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is very important-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----and the Minister might want to explain why it has been ruled out of order and on what basis she has cut the household benefits package every year without bringing it before this House. She did it in 2011 when she was only a wet week in the job. In 2012, we lost six weeks from the fuel allowance. The electricity allowance was cut last year and the telephone allowance has been cut this...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The measures contained in the Bill and the manner in which it is being rammed through the Oireachtas comprise a litany of broken promises. I cannot refer to the Bill without mentioning the guillotine. In the Government parties' election manifestoes, they committed to changing the guillotine. Under the programme for Government, they were to tackle the significant overuse of guillotines to...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Dishonesty is destroying the reputation of politicians and the political system in this country. I ask the Taoiseach who said the following:The Government has lost touch with the people and misled its own backbenchers. It thought it could carry out this attack on the elderly under the guise of patriotism, when it was more like an act of terrorism. The principle is simple; universal...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I ask the Taoiseach who said the following: "Elderly people do not want to be pressurised about means tests and application forms or have to worry about their property, their savings, what they have in the bank, whether a man from Government will call to their home or if they will lose their right to the medical card." It was the Taoiseach in 2008.