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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will refer to some of the Technical Group's section 9 amendments that are in this grouping, but I also wish to comment on some of the amendments tabled by the Minister of State, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, and others who are opposed full stop to the section, who are coming at it from a different perspective. Deputy Tóibín and the Minister of State referred a number of times to the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will they be given an opportunity to agree in a referendum?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, and the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, for recalling the terrible tragic circumstances surrounding the X case and reminding us that suicide in pregnancy is a real threat which must be dealt with. That is what the X case judgment requires us to do, morally, politically and legally. Given the powerful accounts that...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, earlier suggested the six avidly pro-choice Deputies voting "No" might be explained by some kind of political posturing. I want to make it clear to him and to the Government that it is a mistaken judgment. Some of us feel we must, reluctantly, vote against the Bill. There is nothing in it for us to vote "No". We wanted a Bill that...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not defined.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extremely disappointing for the Minister of State to make that charge. The simple reason we brought it up is because families affected by this question asked us to. We chose not to say “No” because we believe they have an unanswerable case for the issue that has affected them to be dealt with. It is as simple as that. I also have personal experience of it and so I...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if the Minister is correct, will he give a commitment or an assurance that he will do something?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Projects (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of submissions received in the foreshore unit in relation to Dublin Arrays proposal for a wind farm in Dublin Bay; and when a decision will issue on this respect. [33646/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our guests for their presentation. The booklet is very interesting and certain of the facts it contains are revealing. I was genuinely torn when I listened to both the presentation and the suggestions made. Perhaps our guests could be of assistance in the context of my agonising over this matter. I love the concept of not-for-profit. I want an economy and a society that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is before profit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just a part of it. I represent the radical wing of the party that wants a not-for-profit economy. I am very much in favour of the concept and I fully recognise the importance of the work done by the not-for-profit sector. Like everyone else, however, I am surprised by the size of the sector. The latter is a positive and if the sector is that big, if it works, if it creates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the points Mr. Flannery is making. He has made the case very strongly that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and that we will take what we can get, notwithstanding the political campaign that some of us may be waging to change the tax policy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, and I understand that. What would Mr. Flannery's response be to the problem I am raising about how that may impact on ordinary people's sense of grievance and injustice at the inequalities that exist in our society and the perception they could well draw from this, namely, that those who have done very well and who, in some cases, are tax exiles will be rewarded and begged from in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have another related question. Does Mr. Flannery not think there is a danger in what he is doing in that his organisation and we, as a society, could become dependent on these people and they would have us, to a certain extent, over a barrel in that if we were to threaten to do other things on the tax front or on the political front that they do not like, they could threaten to withdraw...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Invest in Irish Job Scheme: Discussion. (10 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, and that is before we even start to talk about human nature.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then legislate for fatal foetal abnormalities.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a reasonable proposal.

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Stephen S. Donnelly and Catherine Murphy. Margaret Thatcher was often referred to as somebody who was not for turning, regardless of the impact of her disastrous experiments in neoliberal economics, which set the scene for much of the disaster that she caused, along with Ronald Reagan, which ultimately culminated in the madness that produced the global...

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about the unemployment figures. As the Minister knows, much of that work is part-time, replacing jobs that in many cases had been full-time ones. It includes people going on education and training programmes, which I welcome. Are there real jobs for the hundreds of thousands out there, jobs that will generate economic growth and so on? At the beginning of this year there...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past few days we have indicated that some of us believe the Bill will not even achieve its stated intention, which is to protect women whose lives are at risk because of a physical threat or the threat of suicide. In the latter case, suicidal women will not go near this process because it is so restrictive and intrusive in its interrogation of women in a vulnerable position. It...