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Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: I am sorry, Minister-----

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: When they went in-----

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: They were advised there was no point. It is as simple as that.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: For those who applied, the proof is there in that they still have not got anything even though they can show clearly by their accounts and their bank accounts that they had no income in that period. I can stand over those facts. Those people have got some break this year because of the increase in milk prices etc., which I appreciate. I spoke to a senior person in Teagasc this morning and...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: I cannot say I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill because it is not a welcome piece of legislation. I refer to the contribution of the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Alexandra White of the Green Party. Yesterday she literally claimed everything that was good or what she regarded as good. She said that only for the Green Party education would be in a much worse state. She...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: The widow's benefit has been cut by €16 a week.

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: I thank the Minister for taking up my time to try to justify his existence. My own mother spent the last years of her life as a blind person and I know what it is like to have a blind person in the house. To cut such a person's benefit by €16 a week over two years is very unfair. A total of €40 billion was found to pay off the Ulster Bank people yet the blind pension, the carer's...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: In light of the fact that the Green Party is trying to bring forward some of its pet legislation, such as that to establish a Dublin lord mayor, does the Tánaiste's party not regard it as important to bring forward the legal costs Bill to deal with the anomaly whereby those in the legal field are not being affected by the cutbacks affecting everybody else? In light of all the problems...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: They are already gone.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Their personal interest.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: He also advised that the Government was wrong.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: That is outrageous.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: What about Fianna Fáil and the Green Party? Fianna Fáil bends over backwards for the Green Party.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: They have destroyed the country and should not start lecturing us.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: We saw Fianna Fáil bend over backwards to keep the Green Party on board.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Does the Minister of State expect us to believe that?

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Just take one step; that is the important thing.

Written Answers — Hospital Redress Scheme: Hospital Redress Scheme (7 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she last met with victims of Michael Neary or their representatives or both; if the issue of the excluded women under the terms of the Lourdes hospital redress scheme was discussed; if she made any specific commitments to those present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45889/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Redress Scheme: Hospital Redress Scheme (7 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures she will take to fairly and justly meet the case and needs of those women whose suffering at the hands of the former obstetrician and gynaecologist Michael Neary has yet to be officially recognised and appropriately responded to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45890/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Redress Scheme: Hospital Redress Scheme (7 Dec 2010)

Seymour Crawford: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the advice she has received that led her to decide that women who had reached their 40th birthday were not to be included under the terms of the Lourdes hospital redress scheme she established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45891/10]