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- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: We no longer control monetary policy. It is therefore incumbent on the Minister for Finance to bring forward a different type of budget. That is the point I wished to make if the Minister of State had only waited to hear it. To use Mr. McCreevy's parlance, the Government is turning the corner into the straight. It is approaching the end. It is the mass of PAYE workers and the approximately 1...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: He did not succeed in increasing the basic social welfare rates by â¬17 per week. Given the base rates we have, such an increase will do nothing anyway. Such a bland gesture will not help the development of any form of social justice. The decisions made on taxation policy are the central instruments of any budget. Many pages of examples and tables have been published to illustrate how the...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: A Minister from the Minister of State's party made that point.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Unfortunately for the Members opposite, the current Government's era, which has been the era of good time Charlie, Deputy Cowen and the Taoiseach, is coming to an end.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: It will not be too long before we will have a totally different budget in this House.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I wish to be helpful to the House by making a point of order. Nobody is in mind to give the budget debate and the Taoiseach's speech the attention they deserve.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I propose as a point of order that we adjournââ
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I propose that we adjourn for 15 or 20 minutes to allow the Whips to meet and try to resolve this matter.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: I believe it is the wish of the House that we adjourn and have a Whips' meeting immediately.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: On a point of order, when the former Minister of State, Deputy Ned O'Keeffe, resigned, we had a statement and questions in the House. That is a precedent.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: There is a precedent. You said there was no precedent.
- Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: It is outrageous.
- Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (7 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the independent review being carried out by a person (details supplied) into the interaction between the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces and the parents and family of Private Kevin Barrett following his death; when he expects this review to be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38159/05]
- Budget Statement 2005. (7 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: It is disgraceful.
- Written Answers — Work-Life Balance: Work-Life Balance (6 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of research indicating that job satisfaction has a particular influence on mental health; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that depression and anxiety are the most common reasons for absenteeism; if specific measures have been taken by his Department to alert...
- Written Answers — Mergers and Acquisitions: Mergers and Acquisitions (6 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the implications for the Irish cable TV and Internet sector on the recent approval by the Competition Authority of the acquisition of NTL by Liberty Global; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34345/05]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will examine the situation of a job initiative worker (details supplied) whose deserted wife's benefit has been removed due to the operation of a very low income disregard; if this disregard will be increased to encourage women to be able to provide better for their families by taking up work. [37628/05]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will investigate the situation of job initiative workers who hold a deserted wife's allowance and who are losing a portion of all of their deserted wife's allowance due to the failure to increase the income disregard for eight budgets and who believe they are being treated very unfairly due to the income limit which is not...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2005)
Tommy Broughan: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will examine the situation of a job initiative worker (details supplied) whose deserted wife's benefit is being cut due to the operation of a very low income disregard for deserted wife's benefit recipients after 30 August 1992; if this disregard will be increased to encourage women to be able to provide better for their...