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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a belief among people who are generally better off and have never found it necessary to depend on the social welfare system that those who depend on that system are somehow being dishonest and lazy and leeching off the system. In their minds, what we need to do is toughen up such people by giving them a hard time and they will then return to work. While this view is not stated...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many times did the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy meet?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach coming to the meeting?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might learn something.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are getting on the boat.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are they asked how they will pay for the stamps for their job applications?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, we have.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And then cut their money.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is providing Michael McDowell-style incentivisation.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to refrain in these debates from ridiculing people who may have a different perspective from him. It is not helpful to the discussion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In his response to questions, I ask the Taoiseach to refrain from trying to ridicule the questioners instead of taking their questions seriously. It is preposterous to suggest that anybody in here wants to leave people on the dole.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a red herring which means the Taoiseach is not taking the debate seriously. The Cabinet sub-committee on social policy meets far less frequently than the Economic Management Council, which is the committee for inflicting pain and the priorities of the troika on people and the economy. Does that not reflect the bad priorities of this Government in dealing with such issues as job...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are they gone?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So does the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will do that with the next question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How do they pay for their lunch when they are there?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can give the Taoiseach some now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub Committee on Climate Change and Green Economy will next meet. [42214/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Ceann Comhairle going to take each question and response individually?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's answer that the committee on climate change and the green economy has met only once gives the lie to the claims he made earlier about the Government's commitment to employment creation because clearly when it comes to doing the practical work to deliver on promises the Taoiseach made in the programme for Government about the potential to create a huge number of jobs in the...