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Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would not have to worry about such things as the sale of people's mortgages and other loans to entities and special purpose vehicles, otherwise known as vulture funds, if we were not flogging the family silver and, literally, selling off the city. We are flogging the country. Billions of euro worth of loans and property is being flogged to the very same people who helped to pump up the...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a line from the song "The Times They Are a Changin'" to the effect that those on the old road should get off the new one if they cannot lend a hand. People have to change because the current approach has not worked. This legislation is not even a sticking plaster. It is purely decorative and meaningless and covers up the continuing insane gambling in the financial markets. The...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are entities floating above the country which are controlled by crazy people who are making decisions that affect the human beings down below.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Surprise, surprise - he is nodding at his colleague.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Government is the scab of Europe right now. The people of Greece have risen up, finally, and said they have had enough of the madness; that they cannot take any more; that they will not allow suicide rates to go through the roof or child poverty to reach obscene proportions; that they will not allow their public services and state assets to be butchered to pieces or allow...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many soup kitchens all over this country, yet we are trying to pretend we are different. On what planet is this Government living? It is time to stand in solidarity with the people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Britain, where child poverty is going through the roof, and with German workers. This is not about us versus Germany. This is about us against the financial...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is all talk to us.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if he discussed with Christine Lagarde at their recent meeting in Dublin, economic stagnation in Europe and the IMF's downgrading of growth prospects for Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3377/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Conference (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance if he discussed with Christine Lagarde at their recent meeting in Dublin, the suggestion of Syriza in Greece that a debt conference should be held to discuss the debt burden affecting Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3376/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Funding (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the adaptation of council homes for tenants with disabilities; and his views on whether the funding is adequate, considering a tenant who applied for a walk-in shower, with all supporting occupational therapy documentation in July...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 547 submissions made to the National Transport Authority as part of the public consultation on the taxi fare increase, known as the taxi fare review, are publicly available; if he will provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5069/15]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were before the Tánaiste's cuts.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind the upcoming changes to the one-parent family payment which will see single parents, often looking after a disabled child or parent, losing up to €86 per week; the additional income supports that will be available to these parents who are unable to work because they are full-time carers; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to address the delays, often months, in the individual section review process and social welfare appeals process due to delays in getting files from different social welfare departments to the appeals office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4970/15]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Often in this Chamber as Deputies we have to talk about injustices, unfairnesses or cruelties that happened to other people and we have to convey their concerns, pain and desire for a remedy, but, occasionally, one has to talk about something of which one has direct personal experience and, for me, this is one of those occasions. Next Tuesday 13 years ago I had to bury my daughter, Ella, who...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we not come in first then?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Alcohol Advertising (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to come at this issue slightly differently. I certainly have no particular truck for the drinks industry as it pumps its products at young people through advertising. I would like to hear a little more detail in this debate about the precise link between advertising and levels of alcohol consumption. To my mind, there were chronic problems of alcohol abuse in the days before...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he attended during his visit to New York in November 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4355/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate at any of his meetings in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4356/15]