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Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I am indeed.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: My humble apologies. Senator O'Donnell knows that I know who she is.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It was a coalition Government. It was Deputies Proinsias De Rossa and Róisín Shortall who took a particular interest in the establishment of Ballymun Regeneration Limited. However, I could not let that small matter slip.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I thank the proposers of the motion on this very important matter. I welcome the Minister and also the visitors in the Gallery. I also take this opportunity to recognise the work of the National Youth Council of Ireland, Youth Work Ireland, Foróige and all the other umbrella groups that keep youth issues in front of us all the time. These umbrella organisations are very effective. That...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I wish to refer to the residents of Priory Hall who, for the second year in a row and on foot of a High Court order handed down in October 2011, will spend Christmas out of their homes. Many of these people continue to pay mortgages on their properties. I ask that the Leader invite the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Jan...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: There is a certain irony in the crocodile tears being shed by the other side of this House in relation to cuts to the respite care grant.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: This House will debate the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012 this evening, which it is estimated will raise ¤200 million in six months and approximately ¤500 million in a full year. Almost every household in the country will contribute to this. The amount raised by this tax in one year will be less than that spent on carer's benefit. The entire property tax take in this country in...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is outrageous to suggest that this Government does not care about people who have care needs.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: More money is spent on carers than will be the entire tax take in one year from the property tax.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have no doubt that the Opposition will cry crocodile tears about that too.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: Excuse me.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is worth bearing in mind that the respite care grant will, even after these cuts, be higher than it was in 2006.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: The previous Fianna Fáil-led Government had vast resources available to it during the Celtic tiger era, which it should have spent on carers and their needs rather than on the Galway tent.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I would like to bring to the Leader's attention that there has been significant growth in the number of homeless people on foot of the disastrous economic situation brought upon us by the previous Government. I congratulate the Government on having ringfenced the money available, in particular in this budget, for homeless provision and on its adoption of a housing first approach which is...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: My first comment on some Members' contributions is that they have given the Minister suggestions on how to save money but none of the suggestions address money from her Department. Senator Crown's suggestions come from the Department of Health and the suggestions of Senator Darragh O'Brien come from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Other suggestions relate to the Department of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: No one has told the Minister for Social Protection who they would like her to cut within the Department of Social Protection in order to amend the proposals being discussed today.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have listened to many genuine contributions as well as much hyperbole and purple passages. The hyperbole and purple passages have particularly come from the Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin Members.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I resent Members using carers for political purposes.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: It is obscene.