Results 19,401-19,420 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is impossible to conduct a debate unless we have a final list with numbered amendments.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We need a list of amendments for Committee Stage and we are entitled to that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I mean the amendments to the Bill. Can we have a list of the amendments to the Bill, a proper final list with numbered amendments, as is normally provided? I appreciate this has imposed huge strains on the staff in rushing the Bill like this and that the normal procedures were not adhered to. This is part of the reason we were seeking to give this Bill adequate time. The Minister is...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Excuse me?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not the final list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not the final list; there are more amendments today. This is why there are Standing Orders in this House and deadlines.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: They should be included in a final list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: This is no way to do business but this is no reflection on the staff whatsoever. This should have been dealt with properly and adequate time should have been provided.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In recent months, the Minister and her colleagues have repeated the mantra that their priority is to protect the vulnerable. While their media advice may be that people will start to believe something if it is repeated sufficiently often, their mantra is a patent and blatant untruth. The Minister has not fulfilled her responsibility to protect the weakest. Even in difficult times, her...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, I would like the Minister to address her comments specifically to the issue raised by Deputy O'Sullivan on the absence of poverty proofing in the budget.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is standard practice since 1998. We have a right to know if this budget has been poverty proofed before we are asked to vote on it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister took the bonus from them and imposed an additional levy of â¬5 per week in respect of drug payments.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Government left the millionaires alone and hit the most vulnerable.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Millionaires are untouched and the most vulnerable are being hit.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why does the Government not tax the rich?
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That will be reversed by the cuts to child benefit.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has left the millionaires alone and has hammered the weakest in society.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: If the Minister had any shame she would resign.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister has no empathy with the poor at all.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why were millionaires left alone?