Durkan, BernardThursday, 10 December 2009 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
Question put: “That the Dáil shall sit later than 4.45 p.m.”
Voted No 
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Question put: "That the proposal for dealing with No. a4 agreed to.”
Voted No
Hear, hear.
A Bill to provide for the amendment of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 is on the Order Paper and is promised for 2010. Can the Taoiseach indicate if this likely to appear early in the next ...
We can have all the aspirations we like and make all the rules we want but unless they are adhered to by those whose responsibility it is to accede to the wishes of the European institutions and the n...
What has taken place so far?
Is there progress to report?
Not exactly an electrifying experience.
It is.
Hear, hear.
There is no other way. Every Member has the same experience.
It is disgraceful.
Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed).
If he does not stop counting the frogs it will be €28 billion.
Please do.
Come back tomorrow.
For God’s sake, what is the Deputy talking about? The past 12 years are gone; they are history.
Get real.
Is Deputy Gogarty saying it needs to be wrecked again?
So.
On a point of order.
Does that mean that if Santa Claus came for each of the past ten years——
——and he gave a present, on this occasion he would be pardoned if he is allowed to take everything in the house and leave? Is that the true story?
The Green Party is taking the Queen’s shilling.
Masochism is no excuse either.
You should go shave. Continue with the shaving.
That is what I was worried about. I was not too sure about that.
That will be a big help in reaching €58 billion.
You want to keep an eye on the planet. That is big.
It is not. It has stopped.
Hit the helpless.
Is the Deputy going home at the weekend?
Margaret Thatcher would be proud.
That is what they said during the French Revolution, that it was regrettable but necessary.
If the Deputy believes that, he will believe anything.
That is right.
That is right.
Yes.
That is right.
It is dangerous.
Controlling the population is one thing, controlling the salaries of bank executives is quite another.
It was saddled with such debt in the 1970s as well.
Those opposite have a funny way of showing that commitment.
She should have gone to Specsavers.
If one can qualify for it.
More green shoots.
The Deputy quoting Shaw will be of major assistance to the unemployed.
I have read his work.
It is a pity Shaw was not around in recent years.
He rode around on a horse.
Yes in Inchydoney.
If Fianna Fáil is brave enough to go to Inchydoney again next year I am sure that Fr. Healy will be happy to address it but with a different admonition. It is with sadness that we address this House ...
It is impossible to say all the things that one has to say at this time about the carers and people with special needs and the domiciliary care applicants. Somebody said that allowance was not interf...
We would not know they were in Government at all.
Unless the Deputy and his colleagues join something very shortly, I am afraid the dole queue is staring them in the face.
Please, Deputy Durkan. Allow Deputy Kennedy to continue.
It is the Deputy’s party that is in Government.
That is an appalling thing to say. There are no jobs for them and the Government took away half their incomes.
If the Government created employment for them, they would not be at home doing nothing.
Where are the places for them?
I know what places the Deputy has in mind.
A sad fact.
That is a sad situation.
I would be inclined to take any place after hearing what Deputy Kennedy just said. It is a sad reflection on this Government and its backbenchers.
I apologise. He is upsetting me again.
If there was a bench Deputy Kennedy could go to, I would advise him to go to it fairly soon.
What about the fraud in the banks?
Punish the people at the bottom of the line.
It is the Government that is putting its hand in the pockets of the unfortunate, the disabled and the sick, the unemployed.
The Deputy wants to make us like a police state. That is what they used to do in eastern Europe once upon a time. The Berlin Wall was taken down because of that.
Does the Deputy want the Berlin Wall to go up here?
Provided their constitutional rights are upheld.
A 300% increase in what? There has been a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation.
Fianna Fáil took it out of the hand of the child in the cradle. Government Deputies should be ashamed of themselves.
He brought in 20% of an increase. If Deputy Kennedy knew his history he would know that. The Deputy knows nothing about recent history, never mind past history.
Deputy Kennedy does not have a record here, he should be ashamed of what he just said.
When there was a 500% increase in the price of housing and accommodation?
There was €600,000 of a good luck gift for the bankers while the ordinary pleb was punished.
We now have a mathematician over there.
Mathematics is certainly not his Government’s chosen subject.
I apologise. He has upset the people of this country as well as me.
The Government created that problem when it bought a general election. It gave medical cards to old people to buy a general election. The Government Deputies stood up at the budget and applauded. T...
That unfortunate man is deluding himself and everybody else. He is now boasting about how well he has done. This is outrageous.
I apologise.
I do mean it.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
That is right.
That is right.
Show you have the bottle, Mattie.
I look forward to Deputy McGrath’s contribution with great interest.
The Deputy should tell that to the women of Ireland. Even Deputy McGrath would not believe that.
Having removed their medical cards, the Government did not want to kick the pensioners again. That is the reason the pension was not touched.
For God’s sake, what has happened over the past ten years?
Does Deputy Byrne think I am codding?
They have been left with a little bit.
Deputy McGrath has been very loquacious in recent times.
That was caused by the Government.
Is the Deputy sure this is not last year’s budget speech?
The way the Deputy is going, he will not be able to breathe.
We will listen very carefully to what the Deputy has to say.
To what end?
What does this have to do with the budget?
The Deputy is certainly challenged.
Hear, hear.
Written Answers - Prison Accommodation.
Asked the minister: the number of prisoners incarcerated in the various prisons here; the number of prisoners to a cell; the number of cells accommodating two, three, four or more prisoners; the extent to which adequate...
Written Answers - Organised Crime.
Asked the minister: the extent to which the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 and the Criminal Justice Provisions Bill 2009 has been invoked to date in 2009 against criminal gangs; the number of arre...
Written Answers - Tax Code.
Asked the minister: if and when charitable tax exemption under section 207 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement o...
Written Answers - Health Services.
Asked the minister: if she has received documentation appertaining to extension, improvement or refurbishment works at a health centre (details supplied) in County Kildare; the full extent of works required; when her at...
Written Answers - Services for People with Disabilities.
Asked the minister: when an independent assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 will be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Medical Cards.
Asked the minister: when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Garda Stations.
Asked the minister: his proposals for the upgrading of Garda stations here currently deemed to be in need of such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Prison Accommodation.
Asked the minister: the number of prison spaces available here; the number of spaces required; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Garda Communications.
Asked the minister: the degree to which all Garda stations here have been provided with pulse and or other up to date communications facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Prisoner Releases.
Asked the minister: the number of prisoners granted day, special, compassionate or other release in each of the past three years and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Asked the minister: the number of known members of criminal gangs released from prison in each of the past five years to date in 2009 prior to serving their full sentence; the number of crimes committed by such persons ...
Written Answers - Organised Crime.
Asked the minister: if it has been established that criminal gang members or leaders have moved to other jurisdictions since the passing of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 and the Criminal Just...
Asked the minister: the action he has taken or proposes to take to monitor and restrict or challenge the activity of organised criminals that have moved from the city centre to adjoining counties; and if he will make a ...
Asked the minister: the number of persons interviewed by the gardaí in the course of the past 12 months to date in 2009 who are known to be associates of or directly involved in criminal gang activity; the action taken ...
Asked the minister: the number of persons imprisoned arising from the provisions of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 and the Criminal Justice Provision Bill 2009; and if he will make a statement...
Asked the minister: the number of known members of criminal gangs who have been charged, sentenced or have charges pending arising from the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provision) Bill 2009 and the Criminal Justice P...
Written Answers - Citizenship Applications.
Asked the minister: further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 26 November 2009, when the Garda report, hard copy of which has not issued, was transmitted electronically to Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service...
Written Answers - Crime Levels.
Asked the minister: the number of crimes committed, reported and recorded in County Kildare in each of the past three years to date in 2009; the number of prosecutions taken, pending or concluded; the number of convicti...
Written Answers - Residency Permits.
Asked the minister: the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Refugee Status.
Asked the minister: if updated travel documents will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Citizenship Applications.
Asked the minister: the position regarding an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Refugee Status.
Asked the minister: if and when travel documents will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if requirements for application in respect of naturalisation and citizenship have been complied w...
Written Answers - Residency Permits.
Asked the minister: the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and family reunification in the case of their brothers; and if he will make a statement on ...
Asked the minister: the residency and citizenship status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Citizenship Applications.
Asked the minister: the position regarding an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Asked the minister: the position regarding eligibility to apply for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Asked the minister: the position regarding the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the fact that charges against them were struck out by the courts; and if he will ma...
Asked the minister: the position regarding an application for citizenship in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Deportation Orders.
Asked the minister: if he will review the recommendation in his Department for deportation in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Residency Permits.
Asked the minister: the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in view of the fact that they have submitted all documents required; and if he will make a statement on the ma...
Written Answers - Asylum Applications.
Asked the minister: the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Garda Transport.
Asked the minister: the number of Garda cars available to each Garda station in County Kildare; the degree to which these are available in the catchment area of the stations concerned on a 24 hour basis; and if he will ...
Written Answers - Firearms Licences.
Asked the minister: the extent to which hunting or game licences, gun or rifle, have been restricted in 2009 with particular reference to previously established practice; the number of restricted or unlimited licences i...
Written Answers - Community Development.
Asked the minister: if all funding and operation structures of community development programmes will continue in the same manner as in recent years for County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Social Welfare Appeals.
Asked the minister: if and when basic supplementary welfare and rent allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Pension Provisions.
Asked the minister: the full entitlement to retirement or old age pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Social Welfare Benefits.
Asked the minister: when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be awarded jobseeker’s benefit or assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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