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Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a dozen such cases on my desk.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As was mentioned earlier, today outside the Dáil the parents of special needs children who have had domiciliary care allowances cut were protesting as were lone parents who are threatened with a cut in the one parent family payment when their children reach the age of seven and who believe it will drive them out of work. More generally, these protests are part of a growing revolt throughout...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am traumatised by them.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is living in a different planet from the rest of us.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Taoiseach speaking about confidence? People are traumatised, blighted with mass unemployment and are being forced out of the country-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and brutal cuts are being imposed on vulnerable sectors of our society. The whole of Europe is rising up against this crazy austerity agenda.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. Is there no recognition on the Taoiseach's part, as there is across Europe, that the austerity agenda is not working? It is crippling growth. The latest EUROSTAT figures indicate that the debt crisis has returned with a vengeance. I specifically asked the Taoiseach if he could clarify for the House and the public what cuts will be necessary from 2015 onwards when we...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the Taoiseach there?

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish. It is not true.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us the figures.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No figures.

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9633/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of human rights and the lack of democracy in China with the Chinese vice-president when he met him; the commitments if any, that were made by the vice-president on these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When it suits the Taoiseach, for rhetorical or political purposes, he talks about his commitment to democracy and his abhorrence of violence. However, when money and business are at stake, his concern for them goes out the window.

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said but one sentence on human rights in China. What did he discuss with the Chinese dictatorship? Did he raise, for example, the fact that 500,000 Chinese people are in detention without trial? Did he raise the fact that the Falun Gong, Christians, Tibetans, Uighurs and anybody dissenting politically against the Chinese regime, including poets and writers who criticise it,...

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should withdraw the suggestion that I was involved in anything that could be described as violent activity in Galway. That is not true, as was confirmed by David McCullagh from RTE, who was present on the occasion. It is very dishonest -----

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In regard to deploying this sort of dishonest tactic, did the Taoiseach discuss with the Chinese dictatorship tactics for dealing with protestors? Does he know that recently the poet-activist, Zhu Yifu, was jailed for seven years for the terrible crime of inciting subversion of state power? He faces seven years of incarceration because he wrote the following poem: It's time, people of...

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The poem continues: With your own two feet It's time to head to the Square and make your choice.

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.