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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he has had with Church organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15011/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub Committee on Economic Recovery and Jobs last met. [15012/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Economic Management Council has met since this year's Budget. [15014/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times that the Cabinet sub Committee on Health has met in 2013. [15015/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council intends to meet the banks in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15016/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council will next meet. [17263/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree the decision by members of SIPTU to reject the Croke Park II deal represents an earthquake of opposition in the labour movement to the policies of austerity? I ask, given this is a union that, wrongly in my opinion, has gone along with partnership deals with the Government for many years. In this case, while it recommended this deal, on the Taoiseach's...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hardly out of existence.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Instead, the Government taxes the poor out of existence.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Taoiseach received a stinging rebuke from the trade unionists of this country to his pay proposals. Lo and behold, today the Taoiseach seeks to ram through the Dáil what appears to be a pre-emptive strike to cast in stone, before any negotiations or reflections, his agenda for imposing pay cuts on public sector workers. Any Revised Estimates that have a bearing on the...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We debated this matter at length on Committee Stage. I restate my opposition to what the Minister is doing. There is no reason to change something that has worked well. Gambling is not something I endorse or promote. When the lottery was first introduced, many of us were concerned about the State's involvement in promoting gambling, but at least it was controlled and the proceeds of the...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fact the Minister is setting up an office of regulator really is the giveaway that the Government is going for privatisation of the lottery. His line on this legislation and on this new development in terms of the lottery is that not a great deal is changing except that the State will get money up-front for the children's hospital but the setting up of the office of the regulator belies...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The points have been largely made. Regulators dealing with market forces deal with a different type of regulation and we could certainly examine issues in this regard. One must think carefully when giving market forces freer rein in sensitive or critical areas or sectors of the economy or society. The reason the Minister needs a regulator in this instance is precisely because he is moving...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is linking the regulator to it.

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Calleary said one would not get gatherings outside the front of Leinster House on issues such as science funding. Having read the Bill and listened to the debate on it, I believe there probably should be gatherings outside Leinster House. I do not claim to be an expert in the area, but then I suspect most of us speaking in this debate are not experts in the area of scientific...

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is already happening. Evidence exists that it is already happening. I oppose the thrust of the Bill. It is another way of dealing with the fact that the Government is cutting funding for science research.

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, that was not the case.

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is another extraordinarily dark chapter in the hidden history of this State. It only came to light as a result of the struggle of these women to bring to light the mutilation visited upon them by a medical profession influenced by a Catholic ethos which claimed to represent some notion of spirituality or holiness but under which they were treated barbarically. Some 1,500 women...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the pupil teacher ratio and lifting the cap on student numbers in colleges of further education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17580/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the impact that the changes in the pupil teacher ratio will have on colleges of further education on teaching jobs and on opportunities for young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17581/13]