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Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the budget. We should lay out the direction we want to take in the future. Having risen to great heights in terms of expenditure and services and having improved services beyond recognition, we are all anxious to maintain those services as far as possible and to protect those who depend on them. Listening to the debate in the Dáil yesterday, I...

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Deputy Buttimer got what he wished for, but maybe he does not wish for what he got. The problem with the budget is that it does not provide a stimulus. The Government took the easy option of cutting capital expenditure, but some capital expenditure can be self-financing. It increased VAT, an easy option, but not one that will stimulate consumer confidence. The irony is that VAT and the...

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I gave and Deputy Buttimer knows that.

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We ran budget surpluses in the years I gave the money. That is a fact. By the way, most of those opposite were quick enough to come into the House to tell me to spend more. They were queuing up at my door looking for more money. Let us look at what the Government has done with mortgages. It has taken a scatter-gun approach.

Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Some of those opposite should re-read their manifestos for 2007. The Government has increased mortgage interest relief. Somebody under no financial pressure and with plenty of money to buy a house in the defined period will get extra relief. I hope a good proportion of that money will help people who have mortgage difficulties but as I said, it is a scatter-gun approach. We should be...

Departmental Funding (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the capital projects he will undertake in 2012. [38037/11]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in relation to a proposed school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38146/11]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of money spent on property acquisitions and construction costs and rents associated with the decentralisation programme announced in budget 2004, and the amount of money saved or received from the sale of property or the cessation of leases in Dublin as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends to introduce a pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant advisors in line with Labour Court recommendation LCR19293; if she intends to provide the necessary funding to scheme sponsors to fund the pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38186/11]

Written Answers — Exploration Licences: Exploration Licences (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the legislation that authorises him, as the regulatory body, to issue licences for the exploration phases associated with hydraulic fracturing; if further legislation will be required in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38185/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if non-eligibility for disadvantaged area scheme payment due to low stocking density can affect eligibility for the single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38160/11]

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, it is not. I understand there will be no oral parliamentary questions next Tuesday and Wednesday. There was always the tradition that parliamentary questions went ahead on budget day, as did Taoiseach's Question Time. I also note Topical Issue Matters will not be taken next Wednesday.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept on the Tuesday of the budget it was a tradition not to have Adjournment matters. While I am opposed to this proposal I am not going to press it to a vote. Votes on the Order of Business have become the Government's ruse to limit the time and ensure we cannot ask questions of the Government.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree with my colleagues there should be more time to debate the serious issue of the extension of the bank guarantee. While Fianna Fáil agrees with the Government's position, it is totally at odds with the Labour Party's previous position.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Tánaiste's Labour Party colleagues should be given the opportunity to explain how they have come around to believing this is the right policy. It is also important-----

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----the Government explains what it is doing with burden-sharing or as its members used to call it "burning the bondholders".

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Government explain why it is not burning the unsecured bondholders as promised so often when in opposition?

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The fact that we are coming in here on Monday is totally unprecedented. There will be a speech from the Minister, the Opposition will get 30 minutes to debate the savage cuts that the Government will introduce-----

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----and then the Dáil will shut down. I cannot see why we cannot sit longer on Monday-----

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----and what the purpose-----