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Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question.

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with the Chinese dictatorship the fact that it is imprisoning poets simply for suggesting that the Chinese might come out on Tiananmen Square to demand their rights to freedom and democracy?

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am the only person the Ceann Comhairle cut across.

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a question. Did the Taoiseach discuss with the Chinese dictators the fact that they are putting poets in prison for calling for peaceful protests and demanding democracy?

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I always behave myself.

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the original draft of the Bill issued, the Bill has been very substantially amended and rewritten and what we are now looking at is a different Bill. It is not the same Bill as was debated in the Dáil last week. We are getting less than an hour - 7.54 p.m. to 8.45 p.m. - to discuss what is effectively a new Bill with considerable changes, such as the spreading out of social welfare...

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a different Bill now.

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps our Whip can also speak-----

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With respect, this is an issue to do with-----

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there no way I can have a substitute?

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said earlier and as others have said, this is effectively a new Bill. The idea that we are talking about a new Bill dealing with important matters for citizens of this country and for some of the most vulnerable sectors of society, which have been hit hard with austerity and cuts-----

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They include lone parents, part-time workers and others dependent on social welfare. It is wrong that what is effectively a new Bill should receive less than one hour of discussion. It raises the question of what the Government and the Minister were doing when an extension of what the Bill is dealing with comes in at the last minute. It flies in the face of any commitment to serious...

Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to be fair, democratic and reasonable. It is not right that one third of the Opposition is disenfranchised from discussing this changed Bill.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Committee (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I too reject this motion and the Bill. I wish to correct the record of the House. The Taoiseach said earlier today that the House would have ten hours of debate on Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill but that is not correct because we had four hours' debate and at the last moment we are presented with a whole raft of amendments which substantially change the Bill and make...

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to proceed with the planned sale of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20292/12]

Written Answers — Global Economic Forum: Global Economic Forum (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons who will be invited to the next Global Economic Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of persons in receipt of the domiciliary carer's allowance; the way same compares to 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20627/12]

Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to act on the findings of the Mahon Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/12]

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is paying for the website?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just like you did before the last election.