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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: A tax on high-salt and high-sugar foods would yield ¤100 million.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: A tax on the tobacco industry, as supported by the Irish Cancer Society, would yield ¤100 million.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: These savings total ¤400 million. That is where the money would come from. Senator Crown made other proposals, with which I agree. Other Senators made proposals also and I spoke today the Order of Business on yet another. There are alternatives and it is a question of choices. Why should the most vulnerable, who are probably the least vocal, pay the price for some of the bad decisions...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Government can reverse them.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: On a point of order, I take issue with the comments made by Senator Colm Burke who made an accusation about words I had not used.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I request that the record of the House be corrected.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: An accusation was made.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: What about the 3% increase in the universal social charge for those earning over ¤100,000? It is all about choices and the promises made before the general election.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: My comments on foreign aid are well documented. Most of the ¤623 million that will be borrowed to provide such aid next year and for which taxpayers will be liable will be paid to the United Nations, the European Union, world banks and regional banks in Africa. Ireland is sending ¤43 million to a country which purchased fighter jets. An article appeared in yesterday's edition of The...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: One of the two individuals to whom I refer who were employed by HSBC and named in a damning report compiled by the US Senate is the special Government adviser to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, in respect of NAMA, while the second is the chairman of AIB and has a close relationship with NAMA.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: NAMA must be fully investigated. I have received hundreds of e-mails from people throughout the country in the past two days on the secret society that is NAMA. Who in Fine Gael will agree with my assertion that NAMA is a secret society?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Taoiseach said the same thing when he was in opposition. I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Finance to come before the House to answer a number of outstanding questions on the secret society that is NAMA and the conflict of interests associated with those to whom I refer.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Any Senator who defends NAMA must be asked why he or she is doing so and what links he or she has with that organisation.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Senator is obtaining inside information on it.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It will cost more to keep people in nursing homes.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is a wrong policy. The Government is going down the wrong road.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010: Motion (18 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Our finance spokesperson, Senator Darragh O'Brien, indicated at the outset that we will support the motion; that is our consistent approach. When anyone speaks about banking they say that the major issue affecting people is the pressure banks are putting people under and the lack of lending in the economy. The Government has provided support to the banking sector in this State but that...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Chathaoirleach. I want to share two of my minutes with Senator Byrne.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I wish to begin by reading a few lines from a speech given in 1941 to the Congress in the United States by Franklin Roosevelt: There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work....

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: That is why we are bringing forward our amendments.