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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough and I think the Credit Review Office is playing a valuable role. I am not disputing that, I just wonder how it fits into the bigger picture and I can see the value of what it is doing. Mr. Trethowan appears to be saying that the difference between his attitude towards upholding a loan application and the banks denying it, seems to be the fact that he is taking a slightly...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has claimed repeatedly that it is legally prevented from cutting the obscene pensions of former politicians and top civil servants. As we speak, however, the Government is moving to tear up an agreement made with public sector workers that was supposed to run until the middle of 2014, and is demanding further drastic cuts in pay and conditions for public sector workers who...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tanáiste, as leader of the Labour Party on the hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Lockout, is it not a monstrous betrayal by the Labour Party of the traditions of that party and its founder, James Connolly, to be asking further pay cuts of nurses whose take home pay is approximately €25,000 per year-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or newly-qualified teachers whose take home pay is €21,000 per year-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and those demands being made by Ministers who are on €140,000 a year? Would James Connolly not be spinning in his grave at what the Tánaiste is trying to do to these workers?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Tánaiste seriously talk of respect when Ministers who are earning €140,000 a year, several multiples of what teachers, nurses or firefighters are earning, are asking those workers-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to take even further cuts in pay and conditions?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to workers, who can barely make their mortgage payments, who can barely pay their bills. How are they supposed to-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How are those, who are already in mortgage distress and in arrears, supposed to pay their mortgages? How are they supposed to pay the home tax the Government now wants to impose on them?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Ceann Comhairle not understand the subjunctive? I asked the Tánaiste how are they supposed to pay their mortgages and their bills, or the home taxes.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What makes the Tánaiste think-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the Government can justify another-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: After you cutting across me, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, it was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle stated it was not a question; it was.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Tánaiste-----