Roche, DickWednesday, 6 February 1991 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Financial Resolutions, 1991. - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed).
At the outset I congratulate my colleague and very good friend Deputy Chris Flood on his elevation to office. He has served his constituency and this House well. I have no doubt that he will bring r...
When the debate was adjourned I was touching on some social welfare changes in the budget which I felt were commendable. I was referring specifically to the change in the pension payments signalled i...
That is correct. I was a civil servant and as a civil servant I was no more responsible when he got out of control than I was when the Deputy got out of control.
Over the last decade The Workers' Party in particular have continuously called for increases in expenditure while failing to support local authority budgets. This indicates something of their attitud...
——and he makes a very similar case. Land was bought and major investment made. The BES project brochure has been printed. It would be a great tragedy if some way could not be found to ameliorate th...
I was not here.
Private Members' Business. - Competition in Food Processing Bill, 1990: Second Stage (Resumed).
They paid up front.
Very confused.
The debate on this Bill and many of the contributions have me a little at a loss. The Bill is entitled, “Competition in Food Processing Bill, 1990”, yet many of the people who have contributed to thi...
It is political. That is true, Deputy Hogan of course it is political. It is in response to the waste of parliamentary time you have indulged in.
My record can stand on a par with yours any time. (Interruptions.)
I will indeed. I am pleased that Deputy Hogan has taken the opportunity to point to my period as an official of the Department of Finance. Let me point out that while I was an official of the Depart...
If I am to be blamed for something in that period I must surely also claim the credits. As I said, the Bill is poorly focused in that it applies to only one part of one sector of the economy, food pr...
I was and I read Deputy Seán Barrett's contribution in great detail. I would have to say this: it is quite extraordinary because very seldom have I come across a Second Stage speech that actually did...
Yes, that is where the vitality comes from. On the face of it, that type of operation could find itself in difficulties. In fact this Bill would actually criminalise such an operator; that is the ex...
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