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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That the committee recommends that the Minister for Health and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, invites the Centre for Independent Living on to the review group that they have established to look at a replacement for the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----motorised transport grant and mobility allowance. Do those words work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a grammatical point, we have the words "requests" and "recommends". We should just say that this committee "recommends". We do not need to repeat ourselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. Is the secretariat happy that is in order?
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. As the Minister of State is well aware, the People Before Profit Alliance strenuously opposes the Government's plan to introduce water charges and establish a company that will commence the process of privatisation, notwithstanding its denials that this is the case. I assure the Minister of State that there will be a major campaign of resistance to the Government's...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Actually, there are no water charges for-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact that the the planned increase in the student staff ratio in the further education sector will have on course offerings, specialist training skills and course places; and if he will make a statement on the matter [11999/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider his plans to increase the student staff ratio in the further education sector in view of the damaging effect this will have on the sector in terms of job and skill losses, loss of courses and reduction of course places for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/13]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have voted against these measures in this and the previous budget. This is clearly a revenue-raising exercise that will hit the least well-off. When considered alongside the reduction in the fuel allowance, it will hit yet again those who just cannot afford to be hit. It is spurious in the extreme to suggest it has anything to do with CO2 reductions. It is a straightforward...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Significant numbers of older people die of hypothermia because they cannot afford to heat their homes during winter. The number of recorded deaths in this regard has increased in recent years. There is no getting around that what the Minister is proposing exacerbates that situation. I would like to hear the Minister's response to this issue. Organisations representing the elderly make...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister's answers in the sense he is engaging with the issues we are raising, but while moves are being made towards more sustainable forms and uses of energy to reduce CO2 emissions, it always seems to be that only those least in a position to do so bear the cost of these transitions or suffering most as a result of the transition. I am a firm believer that if one wants...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not the kind of thing for which we could go to the European Investment Bank? Deputy Halligan said he met with EIB representatives at a committee and asked them about this. If the public sector goes to the EIB with a good project that has a definite return and for which it can set out a business case, the bank does not care whether it is public or private sector; it is interested in...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State elaborate a little?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is as clear as mud.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State explain in layman's language why they get this VAT exemption?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a good reason.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?