Brady, CyprianThursday, 23 April 2009 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. 12, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2009, without debate, be agreed to.”
Voted Yes 
Question put: “That the proposal for dealing with No. 3 be agreed to.”
Voted Yes
Private Members’ Business - Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed).
I have listened to the debate in the Chamber. It is all very well trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes——
——in respect of where the economy is going and using the most vulnerable people in our society as a political football.
Ireland is in the position that more is going out than is coming in. It is like any household — one cannot spend what one does not have. The Department and the Minister have come out early and been ...
The contributory pension has increased from €113 ten years ago to €230, an increase of over 100%. Old people appreciate that and accept that conditions have improved. I have spoken to pensioners on ...
——particularly those who are not used to being on social welfare such as those who are recently unemployed and have never been unemployed before.
They will have an opportunity to manage whatever the State can give them. The Minister for Finance has pointed out that we have one of the most generous and efficient welfare systems in Europe, if no...
If the Opposition Members think it is palatable for those on this side of the House to make these decisions at this time, they are not living in the real world.
Amendment put.
Voted Yes
Question put: “That the motion, as amended, be agreed to.”
Voted Yes
Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed).
Question put.
Voted Yes
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