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- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is making a mockery of this House.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is going from the bizarre to the ridiculous. The Taoiseach should not be allowed to answer serious points in this way. He is making a joke out of this House.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, the Taoiseach is bringing this House into disrepute. He is manipulating the democratic process.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is trying to silence, in a dictatorial way, any dissent or even proper scrutiny of this Bill, and he should not be allowed to continue with this.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Government should be utterly ashamed of itself for what it is doing and the way in which it is trampling on the democratic process. At the best of times, huge numbers of people in this country have little respect for politics and for this institution. What the Government is doing, contrary to the promises it made prior to taking office, is bringing this institution into further...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has made a mockery of it already. What is the point?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a farce.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What have you heard?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could remove the guillotine.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Prior to the adjournment of this debate I was asking the Minister to answer at some point this evening the question that his Government has failed to answer despite this issue being debated across the country and to some extent, although severely curtailed, in this House. How are people in mortgage distress who are unable to pay their mortgages supposed to pay this charge? They simply...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know and I am pointing out that it is not, as the Government claims, a property tax because a considerable amount of the property of the very wealthy will not be taken into account. It is just a tax on the family home. Why does the Minister not just call it that? It will penalise people in a brutal and cruel way. We will discuss the details as we move through the Bill in the short time...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Government's tactics?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is utterly untrue.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's tax policy has not helped them one bit.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So mansions with huge gardens do not get valued for property tax. Millionaires get off.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does one pay while on social welfare? The Minister has not answered that question. How does one pay if one cannot pay one's mortgage?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Minister cutting them?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of Failte Ireland spending on promoting the English language sector sector in 2011 and 2012 and if he will provide a breakdown of that spending; the range of initiatives including direct marketing campaigns to raise awareness of Ireland as an education destination they took in 2012 and will take in 2013. [11205/13]