Results 15,361-15,380 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: The Green Ministers also turned a blind eye to it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Perhaps the Minister will thank those who raised genuine issues without using foul language.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: I am happy to have been elected to the Irish Parliament.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Only politically.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: There Minister said there are no alternatives, but there are. Fifty percent of the McCarthy recommendations were implemented in the Department of Social and Family Affairs, but only half that number were implemented in other Departments. Thus, there was ample room for savings. Only â¬55 million was achieved through taxes on the rich, one twelfth of what Fine Gael had proposed. In regard...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: I will follow from Deputy Shortall's remarks. Will the Minister clarify if the poverty proofing document was presented to Cabinet? Was the Cabinet in the position that it made a decision on the details of the budget without such information being made available?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: She has not. I put a very specific question. Was the document provided to Cabinet? Did it have the document available when the decision was being made?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: No she has not.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: I oppose section 4 because of the unjust cuts proposed to all social assistance payments. We are talking about a 6% cut this side of Christmas, and after Christmas, to social assistance payments to those under the age of 66 and yet Ministers are only taking an additional 5% cut in their salaries. The types of cuts proposed for the most vulnerable people in society are immoral. It is...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: I agree.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: The list which has now been circulated is the list that was circulated yesterday which is out of date as we know. On section 3 -----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: They are out of date. These were circulated yesterday and we have a white supplementary list of the sections being opposed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Amendments could have been submitted up until the completion of Second Stage but I do not wish to argue the technical aspects. I oppose section 3 of the Bill because the cuts being proposed in section 3 are unjust. It is timely that the latest set of inflation figures were published subsequent to the budget. When the Minister for Finance came to the House on Wednesday he was working on the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: We also stated that we would give jobs to these people.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Yes, but our document indicated that we would provide the relevant education and training courses.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: We all heard the claptrap uttered by Deputy Kennedy and his colleagues. Wait until the Members opposite return to their constituencies. They will not repeat to their constituents what they said here. They would be terrified to do so.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: He is the leader of the provisional Fianna Fáil six.
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (10 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of asylum applications which have been deemed withdrawn in each year from 2000 to date in 2009, due to their failure to inform the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of their change of address; the number of such persons who have been issued with an intention to deport notification; the number...
- Written Answers — Patient Private Property Fund: Patient Private Property Fund (10 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 15 October 2009, the value of payments made to date; the number of payments which have been issued; when repayments will be made in the western region and in the remaining regions; the timetable for the completion of this process and the reclaim procedure for the next of kin; and if she will...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)
Denis Naughten: As will his constituents.