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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is she being allowed make political points?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am dealing with the subject matter. Why did the Acting Chairman not pull her up for speaking out of turn?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Acting Chairman addressing me or the Minister?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are you looking at me instead of looking at the Minister?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She was interrupting me when I was making my contribution.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I do not. I was wondering why you allowed the Minister to interrupt me.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not be apologising to you or to this House but I would-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is going on here?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am beginning to wonder what is going on here.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will address the Chair in my own way.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister should apologise for launching this vindictive, socially regressive attack on lone parents, which is coupled with the vindictive and socially regressive attacks on lone parents launched in the last budget and which will do nothing but punish a section of our society that is already suffering disproportionately from poverty but which is struggling. It is a section of our...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is being disingenuous.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was talking about the stigma that is applied as well the Minister knows.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not using it.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain her rationale for changing the jobseeker's payment from six a day a week to over a five day a week in view of the fact that it will act as a disincentive to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20628/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the recent review of those in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance, the number of children that have been left without this support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15128/12]

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Under the influence of austerity the European economy plunged back into crisis this week. The chorus of opposition to Angela Merkel's austerity treaty has increased, with unions and governments across Europe, including some of the Tánaiste's former comrades in the Irish trade union movement, have come out against the treaty on the basis that the austerity required would be disastrous. The...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- to €100 billion and one twentieth of that equates to €5 billion per year in cuts over 20 years in order to pay down the debt, on top of whatever cuts are necessary to meet the deficit targets.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are those figures correct and, if not, can the Tánaiste -----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The claim that we are likely to grow our way out of this recession is a fairy tale given the current economic climate and the figures available to us. The latest victim of the austerity and the crisis in Europe is our biggest trading partner, Britain, which has dipped further into recession-----