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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This budget was depressingly predictable. The Government has clearly chosen as its targets the young, the old, the sick, particularly the chronically sick, and the unemployed. At the same time it has chosen to protect the very wealthy and the profits of enormously profitable corporations. I am sure Fine Gael is very pleased because its stated agenda is being vindicated, that is, to look...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is clear that this is not a public health measure; it is just a revenue-raising measure. Nobody could take seriously a Government claiming it was interested in public health when earlier today it has attacked the eligibility to health care of some of the most chronically ill and elderly people in the country. This measure is just about revenue but in so far as it is a revenue-raising...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all aware that the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in the 1930s did not stop the consumption of alcohol but produced the Mafia. Today, the prohibitive pricing of cigarettes will not stop people smoking; it is producing a cigarette Mafia in this country and there is absolutely no question about that. One could probably trace a simple correlation between the rise in...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were not ill-informed contributions.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am utterly opposed to a two-tier health system and utterly opposed to health care only being available to people who can afford expensive private insurance. It is anathema to me. I find it deeply worrying that the Government is committed to the universal insurance model, which is just a recipe to enrich private health care insurance companies and cost society a hell of a lot more in...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I seek clarification on the resolution. I have no difficulty whatsoever, and in fact am positively in favour of increased taxes on large amounts of accumulated wealth in deposit accounts or anywhere else, but I would not be in favour of anything that would hit relatively modest savers, in particular older people - this seems to be a theme of the budget - who might have built up a modest...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 7: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to get our heads around what is quite a technical motion and a change designed to impose a higher level of tax on savings but the explanations and assurances being given to us by the Minister are not really satisfactory. We have no examples whatsoever in front of us and there is a legitimate concern that small savers and ordinary people could be hit. This underlines the point...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list all publicly funded training schemes, upskilling and education courses; and the number of persons taking part in each of these schemes. [43451/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Numbers (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons taking part in the JobBridge scheme and the cost of same to the Exchequer. [43452/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons taking part in the Tús scheme and the cost of same to the Exchequer. [43453/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the categories of payments from her Department that mean that the recipient is counted on the live register; and the number of persons in each category. [43449/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the categories of payments from her Department that mean that the recipient is officially counted as unemployed; and the number of persons in each category. [43450/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons taking part in the JobsPlus initiative and the cost of same to the Exchequer. [43454/13]

Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (17 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allow leeway in the rent cap in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43413/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (17 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider raising the winter fuel allowance in view of the fact that it is failing to cover rising energy prices, leaving many homes struggling to pay bills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43411/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need the Vikings to come back.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unlike the wealthy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not believe that he should give a straight apology for-----