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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: I would like to outline how bad the country's position is. Everybody should recognise that we are borrowing €375 million a week to pay every Deputy in the House and those working for the State. This is filtering back into small businesses and is an essential part of where we are. Unfortunately, we will have to remove more money from the economy next year. Nobody outside this Chamber is...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: PSNI stations. As the Deputy has been in both, it makes very little difference. There is a question about the Labour Party's relevance to the Government. The easy thing for us to have done would have been to sit on the Opposition benches. I notice Deputy Ferris is wearing a Munster rugby tie. If he had played rugby, he would know that those on the benches and the sidelines sing the song,...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: This is the courageous place to be. Deputy Ferris should take the bull by the horns for a change. We did not present the people with our manifesto for government and then tell them we had no intention of going into government. A motion at the 2010 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis called on Sinn Féin not to go into power with other parties such as Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, as this would be...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: There is no doubt that we will take some stick for this. A lot of people are able to listen to simple rhetoric, but I would like to contradict some of the nonsense. Take a look at the corporation tax rate. In the past ten years only two people and one party used to look for the rate of corporation tax to be raised in this country. One was Deputy Boyd Barrett who is true to himself and...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Deputy Adams said yesterday that anyone who interjected was an amadán. I do not agree. If anything I say is wrong, Deputies should feel free to interject or correct me. I refer to the bank guarantee. The current Sinn Féin finance spokesperson said in October 2008, "We appreciate the move by the Government today and remind ourselves that it is a bailout by taxpayers for the banks." He...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: The people need to hear exactly what Sinn Féin is proposing. If one is talking about stripping away that kind of the money from the economy, people will not take small hits. The country and the people would be decimated. Sinn Féin should sit on the Government benches or it should keep running for cover. When there were cuts to be made in Northern Ireland, the Sinn Féin leader came down...

Order of Business (13 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: We now find ourselves in the festive season where most families in the country are in a position to cherish children. We are now looking at having a children's rights referendum. When will proposed legislation be brought before the House and when will the referendum be held?

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40180/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money spent by him on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40196/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40179/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent by him on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40195/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40177/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent by him on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40193/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40184/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money spent by him on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40200/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40182/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money spent by him on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40198/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money spent by her on public relations companies each year since 2006. [40185/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money spent by her on advertising with international, national and local media for each year since 2006. [40201/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Arthur Spring: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of money spent by him on public relations companies each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40173/11]