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- Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These two amendments, relating to jobseeker's benefit and mortgage interest supplement, deal with two groups of people who have been hammered by the current recession - low-paid workers and people with mortgage difficulties. I am concerned that amendments are introduced at the last minute and we have not had enough time to consider the possible ramifications. We do not have sufficient time...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about jobseeker's benefit?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: From where is the Minister reading this?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The more one looks at this, the more one realises how unacceptable it is that this debate is being limited in the way it has been and that these amendments have come forward so late leaving us with so little time to consider them and put forward further proposals. We are dealing with a serious issue that affects a growing and vulnerable group of people who find themselves with mortgage...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We agree with that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it be backdated?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The more one listens to this debate, the more one realises that it would not be a three-way problem if we just nationalised the banks we have recapitalised. We could then square the circle properly and force the banks, as they should be forced, to engage reasonably and fairly with people who are in mortgage difficulties primarily because of the banks' activities. However, the previous...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Right. Therefore, in order to receive the supplement one must engage with the bank and be in an arrangement for 12 months before accessing the mortgage interest supplement. Will the interest that has built up in that 12-month period be paid and backdated? The borrower will lose out unless there is some obligation on the bank, as a result of this legislative change, to write off interest...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the points have been made but like other Deputies, I believe the Minister should delete this section. When one looks at the combination of measures in the budget which were directed at lone parents, one would have to conclude that, in a quite malicious way, lone parents were attacked with the deliberate intention of driving them out of the workforce or that these measures were based...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not flat taxes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What did I say?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is under the existing scheme.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was being very disingenuous in her responses to the points raised by some of us on this side of the House. I was scratching my head trying to work out what was this terrible phrase that had been used with the very dishonest implication on the Minister's part that somehow I was using this terrible term and I could not quite figure out what it was. What I was referring to was a...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister might as well dream here as in bed if she thinks I will apologise to her. She must be joking. She should apologise-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a term-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. She asked me to apologise and I said she might as well dream here as in bed as ask me to apologise. I will not be apologising.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister should do, instead of throwing up smokescreens - by the way that term was a term used in America to stigmatise social welfare recipients-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, in America and well the Minister knows it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, big deal, you have not heard it.