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- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Does Deputy Higgins have any idea how much life expectancy has increased since then? Many people now live longer than their working career. There is an economic reality about the affordability of pensions into the future. It was designed for a different time but on this as on so many issues Deputy Higgins is caught in a time warp.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: People deserve to hear a different rhetoric in 2011, one based on the realities they face now.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In his contribution, Deputy Mattie McGrath said the deal must be abandoned as it is a bad one. It was not a good deal. It is not a good place for us to be in but we need money at affordable rates now to pay for our services and to provide for the things we need to do and to incrementally get ourselves out of that hole and out of those clutches. I say to all of those who suggest we should...
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Is it 95% on everything over â¬100,000?
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Once.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Thousands of workers.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Jobs.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We cannot afford that.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We like successful companies.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Has the Deputy read the programme for Government? It is in the programme for Government.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure the Deputy is like the boy scouts. Ever ullamh.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Profound.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We are living longer with the health services.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: You are caught in a time warp.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We are living longer.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That is very decent of the Deputy.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will explain it to the Deputy.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: They are living longer in retirement now than their entire working life in some instances.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That is the new reality, thank God.
- EU-IMF Programme: Statements (Resumed) (5 May 2011)
Brendan Howlin: That has been paid for.