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Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not doing a very good job.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That proves it.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will have young nurses demonstrating in the near future.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People before Profit and the United Left Alliance will not be supporting this Greek loan facility, as they opposed the previous ones. This so-called new bailout arrangement for Greece is parading itself as a helping hand for the people of Greece when, in reality, it is a further death grip on the Greek economy and its citizens. It is poison parading as medicine. It requires further locking...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Often, this debate is set in polarised ideological terms. I suspect that much of the Government's support for this policy approach is not just due to demands by the troika that this be done, as the Government sometimes suggests. Ideologically, the Government agrees with the troika that the private market is the only means of generating jobs. This viewpoint is captured in the mantra that...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is where they are investing it.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have the wrong kind of guillotine here.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us get the guillotine.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If not the Deputy's blind optimism.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Application Numbers (23 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of numbers of persons who applied for invalidity pension; numbers of those who were refused and those who were granted in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; of those who were refused the numbers who appealed the decision and the numbers who were successful and unsuccessful in those appeals. [3166/13]

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Title is a misnomer as it is entirely incorrect to suggest the agreement will enhance the stability of the euro area. It will do precisely the opposite by further destabilising the Greek economy. It is likely that a slightly different or modified version of the model used here will be applied to Ireland in the near future. All of the models put forward thus far have failed because...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister of State mentioned, we have discussed much of this matter. However, I wish to underline a point in challenging the notion that this Bill will bring stability, as the Title suggests. I want to cut through the myth that the money in question is, for the most part, being invested in the Greek economy to make it function and to provide funding for services and citizens. This is...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreeing.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support many aspects of the Bill. A key provision is on the significant problem of deposit retention whereby landlords refuse to return deposits to tenants. It is very welcome that we should strengthen the law in this area to ensure landlords do not abuse tenants in this way. The biggest category of cases brought to the attention of the Private Residential Tenancies Board is deposit...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on a second. The NTMA is charged with investing the National Pensions Reserve Fund in a safe way to protect that money and get some return for the State. What could be safer and better for the economy than investing some of that money in a major direct-build social housing programme or refurbishment of NAMA, houses to make them suitable? This would put people back to work and would be...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Minister of State that in the 1950s, when Ireland was virtually a Third World country, 50% of the housing in the State was provided by the State.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I do not mind a bit of engagement on this issue, because it must be debated.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not an excuse. I will not get into the debate on the debt but notwithstanding the rights and wrongs of how much Ireland is paying out, borrowing and all the rest, it still has investment funds, albeit perhaps not as much as one would wish. Nevertheless, such funds exist and the NTMA has money. As for going to the international markets to borrow money, I note that at present,...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, notwithstanding that debate, we could go to financiers or even to the credit union movement, which has indicated it has a couple of billion quid it would like to invest. At present, the credit unions are obliged to invest this money out of the country because of various rules. The credit union movement has stated it would not mind investing in community or social projects. Why...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought I could go on for as long as I wished.