I can show the Minister his predecessor saying the Government was not going to introduce-----
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Pearse Doherty
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-----a renter's tax credit, that it was not going to introduce mortgage interest relief-----
-----and that it was not going to introduce the IREF stuff. I could play all those things back but my job-----
-----is to keep on pushing and pushing.
The question I am asking is whether the Minister is minded-----
-----to go the full level in relation to excise duty on kerosene.
No.
Before I begin, I want to welcome to the Dáil the members of the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition who are in the Gallery. Fáilte romhaibh go léir inniu. They come here at a deeply concerning moment for their community because a fresh application has been made for an Orange march along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown this Sunday. That is an issue that can reopen issues residents believed were settled for nearly three …
When I stood here this time last year, raising these questions with the Tánaiste, he was giving the same type of mantra: this would be a cost-of-living budget, and this had to be looked at in the round. People know their real-life experience in the last year. They feel worse off. They feel under more pressure. They have seen their grocery bills increase and their petrol, diesel and home heating oil increase. They hav…
That is a fact. The question I am asking is, will the Tánaiste commit to giving certainty to families and reintroducing energy credits to help people to pay their electricity bills?
It is not funny.
Of course it has. Does the Tánaiste think that taking away the energy credits did not have an impact?
That is just silly.
Nobody is blaming the Tánaiste for that.
Earlier, we welcomed some of the residents from the Garvaghy Road. It is a very difficult time for them. People are shocked at the prospect of an Orange Order march being forced down the Garvaghy Road this Sunday. I was a teenager when the Orange Order attempted to force marches down the Garvaghy Road many years ago. I remember the images of the fear that was created in that community - the stand-off, the riots and t…
Says the party that broke our economy, the actual party that broke our economy.
Honest to God, the Deputy has got a brass neck.
Fianna Fail actually broke the economy.
There is only party in here-----
-----that broke the economy, and it is over there on the other side of the Chamber.
From the party that crashed the economy and brought the IMF here? Jesus Christ, we do not all have amnesia here. Come on.
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time".
Families and workers across the State are being ripped off by the cost of home heating oil. Prices are going up and up and for months, the Government has refused to act. This is not happening in isolation. At the same time, petrol and diesel prices are rising. Energy companies are hiking their bills and groceries are getting dearer day by day, stretching household b…
I listened to the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin, and I listened to the other Minister of State who came in here. Nobody else from the Government benches had the brass neck to come in and face us down on this issue. Listening to the Minister of State, I wondered what planet she is living on. She said the facts do not lie. Here are some facts for her. The price of a fill of home heating oil has increased by €700 sin…
There is a saying in Irish which I will finish on – is maith an rud é an eagla. Fear is a great thing. I know the Government fears the risen people. By God if it does not get this right the people will rise again.
Aréir, chonaic muid ar an teilifís náisiúnta ceathrar sceithirí de chuid An Garda Síochána. Is daoine iad seo a rinne iarracht imní tromchúiseach a ardú taobh istigh den Garda Síochána. Deir siad gur cuireadh ar leataobh iad, gur cuireadh bac orthu agus gur gearradh pionóis orthu. Tá sé de cheart ag an phobal anois a bheith ar an eolas faoi cé a bhí ar an eolas sa Rialtas faoin dóigh ar caitheadh leis na sceithirí se…