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- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the concern about this issue after the comments that were made last week, when is the legislation going to come forward and what is that legislation going to be? That is what people want to know, Taoiseach-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to allay their concerns.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me, a Cheann Comhairle, I have not finished yet. On a second piece of legislation, I want to ask when the forestry Bill in section A of the legislative programme is going to come through. Is that going to happen this session-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and can the Taoiseach give a commitment that the Bill will come before the House before the Government makes any announcement or decision on the sale of the harvesting rights in Coillte? Both questions are about legislation.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the services to be provided in the expenditure of up to €50 million in the pyrite resolution process will be decided by competitive tender. [12784/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the housing units/apartments constructed during the past ten years comply with fire safety regulations. [12785/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (12 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will wait until the results of the Envirnmental Impact Assessment study have come back and are fully considered before granting any exploration licence for onshore shale gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12840/13]
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach realise how frustrated people have become from watching the endless merry-go-round of EU summits? They are littered with fine phrases about jobs, economic growth and returning to normal lending, but the reality experienced by people is one of deepening stagnation in the European and Irish economies and the persistence of the scourge of mass unemployment. The fact that 26...
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am for a social Europe. It would depend on whether it was a social Europe or a corporate Europe.
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have four minutes and 53 seconds, so why did the Chair cut across me before I had finished?
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a practical and simple proposal for the Government to increase investment in this country. It should ask the European authorities-----
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Chair had not cut across me 15 seconds before I had finished, I would have concluded by now.
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those in the Chair have a habit of doing that.
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why should I not make it?
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have plenty of respect for myself. The Chair should show some respect for the House as well.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Likewise, as I indicated on Committee Stage, I oppose this move to tax maternity benefit. In the various comments from the Minister and Government spokespersons when this issue was first highlighted, the defence put up was to suggest this was a significant anomaly where, if people were on maternity leave, they would end up with more than if they had stayed at work. The problem lies in the...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not really grasped the central point made by some of us on this side of the House. His defence for this move to effectively cut maternity benefit does not recognise the contribution and role of women in society as a whole and the economy. When he argues that we have to make fiscal choices, he is implying that there is fiscal rectitude and proper fiscal management, on the...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will consider our view on that issue when we see who is mining it and who will gain the benefit.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is diverting the discussion slightly. The economic cost of an oil spill in the bay would be far greater than the cost of any benefit we might receive. In any case, we would not receive the same benefit as the private multinationals. The Minister has alternative proposals which have been put to him by various Members. As I pointed out to him, responses from his own Department...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In our budget submission, we proposed that the effective rates relating to these people should be increased and that hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of euro could be captured as a result. There are alternatives but the Minister just does not accept that they exist. He is of the view that it is more acceptable to hit women who are bringing up children and we believe he is wrong.