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Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should introduce rent controls.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is happening.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he has made to intervene and save the life of Khadar Adnan, held in administrative detention in Israel for over 60 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9625/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a clothing allowance despite having been in receipt of this allowance for many years and also has been refused an orthopaedic bed despite it being recommended by their general practitioner. [9344/12]

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems as if we are paying lip-service to the idea of equal treatment for agency workers but trying to exclude certain allowances and certain payments. I accept fully the Ceann Comhairle's decision to rule amendment No. 18 out of order, but it is for the same reason that we, as Deputy Clare Daly indicated, had to refer specifically to the private sector because if we sought equality for all...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that the Ceann Comhairle has ruled amendment No.18 out of order. While we cannot move it, it is important that we record our deep concerns, shared by trade unions, about this section of the Bill. We referred briefly to it earlier, but the provision which allows agencies to employ people on a permanent contract and only pay them 50% of what they were paid on their last assignment...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not quite sure the Minister grasps the point we are making and the concern we are expressing about a fundamental loophole in the entire thrust of the Bill. I will spell it out to him. Section 7(1) enunciates what I understand to be the absolute central kernel of the Bill, which is that the basic working and employment conditions to which an agency worker is entitled shall be the same...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They could be paid the minimum wage.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see why the Minister objects to the amendment. It seeks to establish a legal bottom line regarding compliance and enforcement in order that there will be no ambiguity. The agency and the hirer would be jointly and severally responsible for breaches of the legislation and it would be clear that this was the case. This would not preclude workers from going to the rights commissioner...

State Banking Sector (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State not concerned that three of the most prominent economists in the country, at a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform last week, roundly refuted what he is saying about the promissory notes? They said they did not see us getting back to the financial markets, that the State would need re-financing in 2014, that they did not...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is time the Government admitted the reality of what is happening in the health service and dispensed with the ridiculous and meaningless slogan of "getting more for less". The evidence everywhere is that as a result of the vicious cuts the Government is imposing on the health service, we are getting considerably less for less. Sick and vulnerable people, including children in Crumlin and...

Written Answers — EU-IMF Programme: EU-IMF Programme (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the analysis of the three prominent economists (details supplied) who recently gave evidence before the Finance Committee that Ireland is most likely going to need a second so called bail-out by the beginning of 2014; and if not, the reason therefore; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9939/12]

Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance if he shares the views of the three prominent economists (details supplied), who recently gave evidence before the finance committee, that the Government should not pay out the €3.1 billion due on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory note on 31 March 2012, but should seek a means to either write down or defer this obligation, and...

Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of commitments in the EU 2020 National Reform Programme in terms of targeted pupil teacher ratios, if he will be reversing his decision to make changes to the staffing schedule for DEIS schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10385/12]

Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody is delighted there has been some reversal of the cuts to DEIS schools. It seems it is a victory for people power. I wonder whether the Minister would agree that it is as a result of people protesting, and proving the efficacy of protesting, that there has been a reversal of these cuts which were targeted at the most vulnerable and disadvantaged schools. While that is a victory and...

Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the reality that the Government will still hit the most disadvantaged students and schools in another way and this is only an indication of the need not to cut at education and at the children-----

Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the protest should lead the Government to think again on education cuts in general?

Disadvantaged Status (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Needless to say, I do not accept the necessity for education cuts. It is simply extraordinary that we will pay €3.1 billion out at the end of this month for an Anglo Irish Bank promissory note while the Government thinks it is okay to cut education. I do not see, particularly in education, how the Government - I take the point that the Minister is put within certain limits - does not...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that his proposed cuts to DEIS schools were made without an impact assessment, if he will recognise that his mistake was not to have undertaken any impact assessment of the proposed cuts prior to the budget 2012 proposals announced in December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10289/12]

Written Answers — Value for Money Reviews: Value for Money Reviews (23 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a date for publication of the value for money review of small schools; the costs that were associated with conducting this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10288/12]