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Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not address the substantial issue raised by the huge popular boycott of the household charge?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is now acknowledged by the IMF that ordinary people cannot and should not have to take any more pain of this unjust kind.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not accept that the household charge was wrong and that property charges that are levied on ordinary working people are unfair?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Instead, such taxes should be levied on high income earners-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----those earning more than €100,000 or on multimillionaires, not on working people who are already crucified with the austerity the Government and the previous Government have imposed on them.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the people.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even it understood that it was unfair.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about all the interest on the debt?

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reopen closed hospital beds in view of the fact that there are 35,000 people waiting longer than 12 months to be seen, in view of the fact that the recommended European standard is six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29397/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Health the expected date of publication of the smaller hospitals report.. [29404/12]

Written Answers — Register of Members' Interests: Register of Members' Interests (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify any interests he has in private nursing homes in general and in The Greenhills Nursing Home, County Tipperary in particular.. [29405/12]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the best ways to protect the children of the State is to provide them with secure housing. In the Visitors Gallery is a small sample of the 96,000 families on housing waiting lists. They are the victims of housing cuts and policies imposed by Labour Party Ministers. Leanne Massey who has four children was recently made homeless because of rent allowance cuts. She is now separated...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an unsatisfactory and disingenuous response. We will continue to subsidise private landlords unless the State directly provides council housing. If there are 230,000 empty dwellings, many of them in the hands of NAMA and State-financed banks, they should be transferred directly into council ownership, but that is not what the Government is doing. Instead, it is continuing to pay...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or through the direct provision of council houses to end the abomination whereby 96,000 people are on the housing list at a time when we have nearly a quarter of a million empty properties in the State? It is an obscenity.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should just take the properties into public ownership.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those people who are facing homelessness will be in Buswells Hotel if the Tánaiste wishes to meet them.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to get them housed.

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues: Statements (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Murphy for proposing the debate, which is very much welcome, as this is an important subject on which we should make our voice heard. I strongly welcome the Minister's commitment to uphold a proud tradition in this country of opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and playing an important international role in seeking to prevent the proliferation of such weapons and...