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Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The guillotine should be lifted to allow for proper scrutiny of this most important legislation.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The sale by Coillte this week of 1,000 acres of public land, bringing to 40,000 the number of acres of public forestry sold by the company in the past 20 years or thereabouts, indicates that our forest heritage is being sold from under our feet. I have asked repeatedly, in this context and in the context of the Government's stated commitment to sell off the harvesting rights of Coillte, when...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before I make my main points, I must correct the record. In a telling comment, Deputy Martin claimed Fianna Fáil was the first party to call for a referendum on the fiscal treaty. This is interesting, first because it is not true-----

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not true. Second, it indicates that even Fianna Fáil, notwithstanding its support for all the referendums, knows there are serious problems at the heart of the European project that are affecting people, and they are, amazingly, calling for a wealth tax, for which some of us have long been calling for. This reveals a growing awareness among large numbers of people in this country...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The resulting costs are very clear in Irish society. Despite all the European of the year awards, the backslapping and hugs between leaders at these summits, the Taoiseach is delivering nothing in terms of debt relief and it is becoming increasingly clear that he is not even asking for debt write-downs. We are getting nothing to deal with the unemployment crisis. The Government's own...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions.

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman should not worry. I will not take as long as Deputy Martin did. The development of the banking union and supervision of the banks by the ECB is being presented as a sort of panacea to which we should look forward. Why is that being presented as some sort of positive development when the ECB, by any reasonable assessment of what has gone on, has an enormous...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our unions are planning on doing something early in the new year. What can the Tánaiste say to them? Is there anything coming out of this summit that offers them anything when the Government's medium-term fiscal outlook indicates that unemployment will go from 14.8% to 13% by the end of 2015. The promise is that we will get a reduction of less than two percentage points in unemployment.

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does that offer us?

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the United Left Alliance, I wish to express our concern and disappointment. In general terms, we all want to achieve some relief for those in mortgage distress or who are otherwise stuck under the burden of significant personal indebtedness. There is a genuine desire across the House to do something about that, but it is disappointing that we have not gone a hell of a lot...

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Halligan for tabling this motion and recognising in it the incalculable service which carers provide to our society and to some of the most vulnerable in it. I must say I am a bit bemused, and with no personal disrespect to the Minister of State, as to why the Minister of State with responsibility for small business is taking a motion on carers. One would have expected at the...

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very telling comment-----

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which in a way reinforces one of the main points I want to make. There is no economic rationale or logic to justify making life worse for carers and consequently making life worse for those for whom they care, some of the most vulnerable people in our society. There are no words anyone in the House can say to do justice to the heroic and selfless work done by carers. The working week,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health the cuts he intends to make to reach the target of €780 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57030/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 11 December 2012, if he is satisfied that he has no obligation to ensure detailed consultation and full engagement between the Health Service Executive, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and the Irish Medical Organisation in issues that impact on their members; if he does have an obligation in this regard if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will ask some quick-fire questions on facts before I get into the main question. It was said that 20% of the 174,000 mortgages are in arrears.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many residential mortgages are there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many of the 174,000 mortgages are residential? Is it 20% of the 174,000 mortgages that are in arrears?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many of those are residential?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we saying that 20% of 85,000 are in arrears? A fifth of 85,000 is approximately 17,000, which implies that number is in arrears.