Murphy, Michael Pat

Wednesday, 26 March 1969

Dáil Eireann Debate
Vol. 239 No. 7

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Committee on Finance. - Vote 47: Social Welfare.

I move to report progress. Progress reported; Committee to sit again.More Button

Committee on Finance. - Vote 47: Social Welfare (Resumed).

Sir, in the past ten minutes we have listened to charges and countercharges across the floor of this House. I shall not address myself to any of these charges and countercharges since I was not prese...More Button

Is my language not simple enough? Must I clarify?More Button

I do not make allegations unless I have reasonable grounds to support them. I read a few letters lately that came from the Minister's Department to certain of his friends. I shall leave it at that. ...More Button

I want to be fair to everybody. If I am asked, as a Deputy from West Cork, by John Murphy or Cormac Breslin to make representations on his behalf to the Department of Social Welfare, the representati...More Button

My information is different.More Button

I do not see why a Deputy should be precluded from calling on the appeals officer. In the main the responsibility of the Department of Social Welfare is to make available sums of money to people who ...More Button

I am relating my remarks to the Supplementary Estimate now before me. I am entitled to that and I shall do it. If the Chair can point to the section or subsection that I am contravening——More Button

I am listening, but I have my rights.More Button

Yes.More Button

If you read the second chapter, Sir, you will find what you are disbursing. Under subhead (e) which provides for the payment by the Exchequer of the deficit on the social insurance fund an additional...More Button

Yes. With due respect to you, Sir, I will continue.More Button

I am afraid I have my rights here. I am an elected Member of this House. We are discussing a Supplementary Estimate of £3 million odd for the Department of Social Welfare.More Button

I am indicating in my statement that this money could be utilised in another way.More Button

If I mentioned this on the Department of Lands you would tell me——More Button

I am continuing my statement. I thought you had a remark to make.More Button

On the Estimate. I am reasonably conversant with the procedure of the House and, as a Deputy who has always been respectful to the Chair and who has endeavoured to obey all the lawful rulings of the C...More Button

I am dealing with this question.More Button

The Chair is becoming a bit dictatorial of late.More Button

I am not arguing with the Chair. I am arguing with the Minister and with the Government. I have no argument with the Chair.More Button

What I did mention earlier on——More Button

——was that there is no co-ordination between the different Departments of State.More Button

It is impossible to address yourself properly to the disbursement of the funds sought to be approved by this House unless you are allowed to indicate the way in which you think these moneys could be m...More Button

My knowledge of procedure indicates that I am quite in order. No wonder then that the position obtains here that when you are speaking on one Estimate you must speak as if there was one Department an...More Button

The debate is open to discuss the £341,000.More Button

Yes. We have in this Book of Estimates £9,775,000 paid to people who would much prefer not to get that money. We are now asked to add £300,000 odd to supplement such allowances. My claim is that —a...More Button

I am on the Estimate for Social Welfare. Unemployment benefit is part of the Estimate for Social Welfare. It is set down here on page 198 of the Book of Estimates. I am on the Estimate for Social We...More Button

I am indicating that this Government which have been in office for 13 consecutive years are so incompetent—and I must assume the people who are advising them are likewise incompetent—that we have this...More Button

I appreciate that, Sir, but there is so much useful work to be carried out that if we had proper organisation on top and better liaison between Departments of State the need for having so many of our ...More Button

I shall slip over this. I have in mind that additional taxation would be required. The Labour Party will always support additional taxation which we deem justified for useful and productive measures...More Button

I am aware that, on an Estimate, one is not supposed to advocate legislation——More Button

I am anxious to get it across to the members of the Government that there is discrimination in our community in the giving of pensions and that that discrimination should be removed. I am aware of th...More Button

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