Results 19,521-19,540 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The reality is that the Government will bludgeon the procedures, as they are, through, because they have a majority. We object to rushing the Social Welfare Bill through the Dáil. Many of the changes are only coming to light now. For example, I understand that there is a change to family income supplement, FIS, to the effect that if one's partner or spouse is a carer, one will lose â¬120...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Now that Fine Gael has persuaded the Labour Party to row back on its outrageous policies on disability, perhaps if Fine Gael had extra time it could persuade the Labour Party to row back on some of its more outrageous proposals.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is strange to think back to last year-----
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: -----at what the Labour Party said. It would have been strange to believe last year that it would take Deputy Michael Noonan of Fine Gael to give the Labour Party a conscience.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is one big difference; we announced everything in the budget but the Government held back on many of the changes. They are hidden in the small print. We were up front but you are not.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government managed to hit people for hundreds of euro. That is something we did not do last year.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We object because the Dáil is adjourning tomorrow at 3.30 p.m. when it could continue until 10.30 p.m. or midnight.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What we oppose is the Government cutting short the debate.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Tánaiste should not try to twist it.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I have plenty of respect for the House.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I was making a point of order to clarify the position.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there to be no Order of Business?
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to protest.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I protest that, because the time was taken up for a vote, there will be no Order of Business. We will be looking for an agreement that time taken up for a vote not be counted. We will take up the matter formally at the Committee on Procedure and Privileges and presume there will be all-party agreement on what is a curtailment of democratic rights in the Dáil. When the Government promised...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Beidh cruinniú mullaigh ann don Aontas Eorpach amárach. An EU summit will take place tomorrow. As Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is the Tánaiste concerned that EU policy is being proposed by Ms Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy instead of by the Commission? What they propose will not deal with the current crisis but is driven by a federalist agenda. Fianna Fáil has stated time and again...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am reassured that the Tánaiste realises the method of operation of the European Union is by the 27 member states and proposals by the Commission. I hope the Taoiseach will make it absolutely clear, in public, that it is unacceptable that two countries should try to dictate European policy. It is contrary to the whole spirit of the European treaties. The Tánaiste spoke about a letter...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As regards tax harmonisation, every time people mention CCCTB, I am reminded of the old nursery rhyme "The spider and the fly". We know what happened to the fly when he got into the web.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As far as we are concerned, Europe's acquiescence to the CCCTB proposal is buying the proposition that was put to the fly in the famous nursery rhyme.