Doherty, PearseTuesday, 7 December 2010 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Order of Business
Question put:
Voted No 
Budget Statement 2011
This budget is a disgrace. It is a full-frontal attack on the lowest income earners, those who are unemployed and those who are dependent on social welfare. What it amounts to is a recipe for econom...
Mary, you are on much more than that and you should keep your mouth closed for just a couple of seconds.
The Minister, Deputy Coughlan, should keep her mouth closed while I am speaking because she is on much more than the €92,000——
——that Deputies get.
The token gesture that is being taken by Ministers in this budget does not go anywhere near far enough. The Government is cutting the liveilhoods of people who are trying to get on in this State. Wha...
The Government is willing to sell this budget. It is willing to sell the Irish people down the tubes——
——for a casino in Tipperary and a nursing home in Kerry. Shame on the Government.
It is the reality.
I understand that I did not name the gombeen Deputies and there may be questions over who they are but the point stands. The fact is we can no longer afford this type of politics. We simply cannot a...
That is why they are absolutely out of touch and why they will be booted out of office. Last year, we heard the Minister for Finance tell the House that the budget for 2010 was the harshest budget tha...
——but asks those who have a bit more to pay a bit more. Our alternative would see the cuts announced today reversed. I am calling on everybody going into the next general election and who wants to g...
They gambled and lost.
Their debt is bank debt, not sovereign debt——
——and they have to accept a market solution to a market problem.
The principle of this is that the Irish taxpayer should not and will not be the insurance policy for the bondholders who took a gamble and lost. If we proceed with this banking plan, then the budget ...
We cannot afford this banking policy or the loan from the IMF and the EU. Most importantly, we cannot afford the Government. We need real negotiators to deal with the banks and not a red cent should...
——not ourselves or the people being hammered by the Government, but bailing out the banks and bondholders. Our public finances can be fixed.
The crisis we are in is the result of the Government’s deeply flawed banking policy. What the Government is trying to do is turn a banking crisis into a sovereign debt crisis and it has been aided by...
It is a disaster for the young people who wanted to build a future here and it is a disaster for the families they will leave behind. The ESRI estimated that by the end of next year 120,000 people wi...
These young people leaving our shores should be the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors, teachers and engineers. These are the people who can rebuild our economy and deliver t...
We can build a better Ireland.
We can be part of consigning the corruption, cronyism, greed and incompetence to history.
The young people of Ireland can be the new generation to achieve real political change and build a sustainable economy.
I know the Tánaiste does not like this. We all heard her on BBC speaking about how great it was that our young people were leaving Ireland——
——but she should speak to the mother who is crying and who will never know whether her son or daughter will ever return again. Speak to such people and she might understand.
The people of Ireland deserve better than this budget and the people of Ireland deserve better than this Government.
Nobody should think——
I will spell it out to the Tánaiste.
Nobody should think that we in Sinn Féin underestimate the magnitude of the problems in our public finances. We have a structural deficit apart from the banking crisis that must and can be addressed....
The Secretary General of the Department of Finance still earns more than the permanent secretary to the treasury and the CEO of An Post earns more than the managing director of Royal Mail. We still e...
The message that comes from this Government is that protecting its own backside is its first and foremost concern. The same sort of yapping continues to come from the benches opposite.
Through the successful efforts of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, our public health budget subsidises the private health care sector to the tune of billions of euro although not e...
Financial Resolutions 2011: Allocation of Time: Motion
Question put.
Voted No
Financial Resolutions 2011
Question put: “That Financial Resolutions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, be agreed to.”
Voted No
Question put: “That Financial Resolutions Nos. 5 to 9, inclusive, be agreed to.”
Voted No
Question put: “That Financial Resolutions Nos. 10 to 14, inclusive, be agreed to.”
Voted No
Ar Rúin Airgeadais 20, 21 agus 22, iarraim ar an Aire an faoiseamh cánach atá ar fáil faoi alt 23 a shoiléiriú. Nuair a bhí mé ag éisteacht leis an Aire Airgeadais níos luaithe, dúirt sé go gcuirfí d...
I return to the section 23 reliefs for properties that are not sold. The Minister spoke of proportionality, but it is wrong if the Government is willing to allow for section 23 reliefs to be paid up ...
May I speak briefly?
I listened to Deputy O’Donoghue earlier. There are many things I do not understand in the week I have been in this House. One thing I cannot understand is Deputy O’Donoghue sympathising with people ...
——and had to be kicked out of the position in which you now sit, a Cheann Comhairle. Regarding the tax relief——
——on trade union subscriptions, never did we have greater need for reliefs on such subscriptions, which should be at the lower rate of tax. At a time when the Government will reduce the minimum wage ...
The Minister talked about phasing out rent reliefs. In effect in the next 20 minutes somebody entering into a rental contract will have no rent relief because new claimants into this system will not ...
Where is the proportionality in that? How do we allow section 23 property speculators——
——to continue up to 2021, but yet rent relief will be finished by tonight?
How do we allow the owners of those buildings to continue to get mortgage interest relief but people in their own domestic homes do not get it, people in private rental accommodation will have it phas...
Where is the impact assessment into that?
Question put: “That Financial Resolutions Nos. 24 to 33, inclusive, be agreed to.”
Voted No
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