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Other Questions: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister not heard about Barryroe?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a detailed agenda for the G8 Summit in June 2013; if he will report on that agenda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25469/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the G8 Summit in June 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25470/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I intend to travel to Fermanagh to protest at the G8 summit later this month.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition, I will speak at one of the alternative summits, in Belfast, where the policies of the G8 will be critiqued on the day before the summit.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very concerned, as are others who intend to participate in these protests, about the enormous hype in terms of potential security threats surrounding the summit. I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach is echoing some of this narrative by alluding to possible threats from protesters. He referred to smashed windscreens, for example.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach threw it into the narrative.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that a broken windscreen does not scream with agony in the same way as does a child who is blown to pieces by a drone weapon deployed by the United States in Afghanistan?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us get these matters in proportion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no comparison between an unmanned drone blowing an innocent child to pieces and a broken piece of glass. The reason people are protesting with peaceful intent is that they find it stomach-churning that the leaders of the most powerful nations in the world would talk about peace and global justice while at the same time deploying these types of weapons to such devastating effect,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were from the locality.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Israel?

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. The people coming through the door of my office week in and week out seem to confirm the perception which is out there that there is a default position, or even an instruction, whereby if any excuse can be found to refuse a payment, then it will be refused. The perception is that the Government hopes that a significant number of people will simply give up and go...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 10 represents an effort on the part of the Minister to undo the damage that was done in the last budget. It is prompted by the protests of lone parents and organisations representing them, including SPARK and One Family, and points made on their behalf from the Opposition setting out how retrograde was the move to phase in the elimination of the one-parent family payment when...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not really addressed the substantial issue that has been raised by a number of Deputies and which is the basis of my amendment and argument. The argument was put to me by SPARK, bearing in mind the impact this legislation will have on lone parents who are working. It will hurt them financially and act as a disincentive to work. The measure is going in precisely the...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister says we need an active rather than a passive social welfare system. I agree and suspect most of us do. This amendment concerns the difference between what the social welfare system can do for or to one. It is all about what it can do to one, not at all what it can do for one. That is what needs to be addressed. Other speakers have said people want the education courses,...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of them are, which shows that they do not need the stick as much as they need the carrot. This is all stick and no carrot. The Minister needs to examine that issue. If she really wants to help to activate people, instead of Departments inflicting punishments on people, she could set up local employment fora and bring in people on social welfare to ask them what she could do for them...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered using the ESB to develop our wind resources. [26650/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of any subsidies or grants available to private companies seeking to establish wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27876/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (11 Jun 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the subsidies or grants available to private companies seeking to establish wind farms. [26648/13]