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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Will the Senator tell us where?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I doubt very much they have alternatives in their programme that will provide for removing ¤400 million from social welfare.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: The only power this House has is the power to delay the budget three months. The House could delay it until April, but then instead of a family of four having ¤58 a month taken from child benefit in January, February, March and April, ¤232 could be taken from their child benefit in April. We would see then whether they would thank the House for the delay in implementing the budget. I...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Go up North and make those cuts.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Everybody expected a tough budget. We knew that social welfare was going to be hit, although we thought more would be taken from the social welfare budget. My Fianna Fáil colleagues would readily admit that the social welfare rates are too high. Where would they take ¤400 million from the social welfare budget? Will they even give us an idea at this 11th hour?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Where would they take ¤26 million without affecting the respite care grant? We must look at the reality. No social welfare base line payment was touched. The carer's allowance and the half-rate carer's allowance have not been touched, although other parties would like to see the latter abolished. There has been a total reversal on the proposed removal of ¤8 million from the home help...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Like Senator Mary Ann O'Brien, I was outraged to read in the national media that cancer patients were being charged ¤75 for chemotherapy. I wish to put something straight. Under the Health Acts, if a person goes to hospital, he or she is charged ¤75 on admission. If he or she stays in hospital for a period of up to ten days, he or she pays ¤75 each day. After ten days, even if a person...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I have two questions. I refer to the registration. It costs public health nurses ¤90 annually to register with An Bord Altranais but the proposed fee for social workers to register with a board is ¤295 annually. Who sets the fees? What does someone who registers get in return for that money? Section 6 permits each registration board "to prescribe certain practices and training...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I support Senator Leyden's comments on third level grants and the operation of Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI. It is scandalous and outrageous that as Christmas approaches, only 20,000 of 66,000 student grants have been awarded. I am not sure if the moneys have even been paid. I have been contacted by students who are threatening to withdraw from college. It is outrageous that...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: We are not discussing the budget. We are finished with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: We all know that the budget had to include some austerity measures in order that we might get back on some kind of track. Privately, Fianna Fáil colleagues inform me that social welfare needed to be cut. However, they have not indicated the elements of social welfare which they believe should be cut. Privately, they also state that the level of social welfare spending is outrageous. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Nor have Fianna Fáil's colleagues-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Senator Leyden should relax.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I do not want the Senator to get high blood pressure.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: Nor have Fianna Fáil's colleagues in Sinn Féin-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I will pose it in a moment.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: If I am allowed to speak, I will be able to pose any amount of questions.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: I was walking down the corridor following last evening's Adjournment debate and I met three Sinn Féin Members. I heard them state "The devil must be in the detail".

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: It is not hearsay. I heard what they said.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: The devil must be in the detail because outside of the reduction to the respite care grant, those opposite are struggling to find a really substantive measure in the budget about which they can criticise-----