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Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Would it be preferable not to have a banking system?

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Would it be preferable?

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Does the Senator mean the billions of euro we have to borrow annually?

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: All in good time.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: The Senator might have seen on the news that unemployment is growing at a much slower rate. They are all vital indicators for growing the economy and certainly for a recovering economy.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: He is provoking me.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: No, it is not but it is a good direction to be heading. Tankers are not reversed overnight.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I would appreciate it. We have a reduction in current spending programmes and a reduction in social welfare. The Opposition is the most dishonest shower.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I would prefer a copy.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Senator Buttimer should make his contribution and allow me to make mine.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: It makes me extremely cross to come in here time after time to listen to Fine Gael, particularly but not exclusively, lamenting every little cut or everything that has happened. In both of the debates we have had today, it has claimed that it would have found much more. Senator Buttimer was waving a document and presenting it all to us. When I asked him for it, he gave me a little quarter...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I would appreciate some silence. A few months ago, Fine Gael said it would cut 50,000 public sector jobs. Now we have to listen to Senator Buttimer giving out to the Government about public sector savings. The trouble with Fine Gael is that it has never been consistent. It galls me to have to listen to it. Its members are doing more damage to their own party than to the Government. Fine...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: By God, I am proud that Fianna Fáil is finally standing up and taking the difficult decisions in the national interest.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Maybe it is a first for Fianna Fáil but by God, I hope it is the way of the future for Fianna Fáil because it is necessary. If there is one thing we discovered about the 1980s, it was that nobody would say stop to the level of borrowing that was happening. Look what happened to us. For ten years we were crippled. At least this Government is now seizing the situation and doing something...

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I begin to lament the idea that Fine Gael would one day be in charge of this country because it is not remotely consistent. If it is going to set itself up as an alternative Government, it should acknowledge the intelligence of the electorate. It should not constantly try to talk out of both sides of its mouth.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: There have to be cuts if we are going to try to balance the books.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Fine Gael never sought to acknowledge that.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: It is a requirement of the country and an absolute requirement of a sovereign government to be able to stabilise the finances on behalf of the nation.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: That is what Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and this Government sought to do in this budget.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: We take no pleasure in the difficult measures that had to be taken but it is what is necessary. I will conclude on the following point. I have just heard on the news the deeply regrettable comment from one of the education union leaders that this Government will get no co-operation from his union. That is disgraceful. What he is putting up for ransom is the education of children. He...