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Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister should allow the Deputy continue as he has less than a minute.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Ne'er a green around.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: He is ready to be electrocuted.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is explaining why we are not having that debate.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I have listened to many budget speeches in this House over the years but none was more disingenuous and more dishonest than the one I listened to yesterday. The House listened in stunned silence and many of the media commented upon that fact. They listened in stunned silence to the last will and testament of a disastrous Government. A decade of mismanagement and incompetence has led our...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: -----and to protect education.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: They protected education by charging €50 for a primary school child to get to school in my rural constituency. They charge €350 for a secondary school pupil to get to his or her school. They charge the children to get to the school and then reduce the services available in the school when they reach the school door.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Teddy Roosevelt said of America, "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in". That should have been the principle that characterised this budget, but in the opposite principle was at its heart. The template of the budget was unfairness. We were told that the new universal social charge was a proposal to simplify...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: That is agreed.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I will.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Allow the Minister of State to make her contribution.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: The precedent refers to if an individual is accused and I was checking that. I did not hear anybody being individually accused of telling lies. I heard "Ministers" being accused.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Allow the Chair to explain. It is a fair point. The Deputy knows that he is not allowed in the House to accuse identifiable people of lying.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Allow Deputy Rabbitte to continue.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Visit of Foreign Delegation. (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Before proceeding with Business I wish on my own behalf and on behalf of the Members of Dáil Éireann to offer a Cead Mile Fáilte, a most sincere welcome to a delegation comprising parliamentarians from State Legislatures across the United States of America, as well as parliamentarians from the Republic of Rwanda and the United Kingdom. I wish you all a most pleasant visit to our country...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: In accordance with the order of the Dáil of this day the session stands suspended for 60 minutes.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Brendan Howlin: What about the IMF?