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Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the programme for Government the Taoiseach stated: [O]ur parties are committed to protecting the vulnerable and to burden-sharing on an equitable basis. Fianna Fáil presided over an unequal and increasingly divided Ireland. We are both committed to forging a new Ireland that is built on fairness and equal citizenship. They are fine words but the facts revealed this week confirm again...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The figures are from 2012.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is about poverty and inequality in this country, it is not about Europe and the debt crisis. The figures I quoted to the Taoiseach on the top income earners are 2012 figures provided by the Department of Finance. They also show, for example, that the top 10% of earners earned €29.5 billion in total income last year. They have average earnings of €136,000 per year and they are...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The budget cuts to lone parents, rent allowance and other social welfare payments and community employment schemes are further attacking the least well-off while the wealthy are being protected and are not paying their fair share of taxes.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have a radical shift in policy where people who earn between €130,000 and €600,000 a year – the super-wealthy in society-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----are made to shoulder the burden of the cuts and austerity instead of people who are homeless or on social welfare, low and middle income workers and people who are struggling to pay their bills?

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government change its policy and stop protecting the super-wealthy?

Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two hundred thousand children are living in poverty. Is the Taoiseach dreaming?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the circumstances in which documents related to the bank guarantee were shredded in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34958/12]

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find the political point scoring between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael extremely amusing------

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ------as they both supported the bank guarantee which, as the Taoiseach rightly said-----

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----was the single most important financial decision taken by any Government in the State's history and which bankrupted the country with disastrous consequences.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am responding to the amusing political games being played.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach certainly has a point. Fianna Fáil has a brass neck to raise the issue; it is beyond belief, but how the Taoiseach can poke fun when he supported the measure is beyond me.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach asked the departmental officials who were present at the time where the records are? It stinks to high heaven that there is no record of this most important decision and the deliberations on it. What investigations has the Taoiseach carried out into the record keeping for that crucial meeting if he is so worried about it?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It stinks to high heaven that there is no record of this most important meeting or the deliberations that led to this disastrous decision. I have pointed out that it is amusing that the Taoiseach is poking fun at Fianna Fáil when his party supported the decision. We all know, as it turned out, that the rationale was shared by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the European authorities-----

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to protect the banks at all costs and sacrifice the rest of us to pay for it.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Taoiseach is so concerned about the matter, what investigations has he conducted to ascertain whether records were taken by departmental officials or anybody else, especially if he is making the serious suggestion there may have been shredding or the dispatching of these critical records? It is suspicious that there are no records, what is he doing to find out what happened to them,...

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there are pieces of paper, the Taoiseach should publish them.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who?