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Standing Order 107I: Motion (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not get any of the detail.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht , in view of the fact that she has previously stated in relation to Moore Street that her only responsibility is to protect the national monument, the steps she is taking to protect the national monument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5520/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allow an exceptional needs payment in respect of a person (details supplied) to pay for an outstanding deposit for their current accommodation in order to ensure they are not made homeless. [5792/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds available across the country, broken down by area, for children with mental health difficulties; if he will provide a comparison between these numbers and the numbers over the past five years; the way these numbers have changed since the inclusion of 17-year-old and 18-year-old children in the category of child and adolescent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the child and adolescent mental health services that are currently waiting for inpatient beds, after being referred for admission; and if children are still being admitted to adult mental health wards. [6108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an emergency inpatient bed in an appropriate unit in respect of a person (details supplied). [6107/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child mental health inpatient beds recommended by his Department; and the way this compares with actual provision. [6109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the water conservation grant, if this payment will be paid annually for the period of the capped charge. [6110/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In some ways, I share the Minister's concern about the seriousness of the situation we are facing. I do not want to overdramatise it, but I cannot understand why the Minister and the Government are stabbing the Greek people in the back. In the process we are stabbing in the back all of the victims of failed austerity policies, including in this country, by refusing their initial proposal,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister seriously suggesting the reason for the humanitarian crisis we are witnessing in Greece is it did not impose vigourously enough the troika programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a fact that even the IMF has acknowledged that the adverse and disastrous impact of the programmes was far worse than that predicted? They had a devastating effect. The initial prediction was that imposing this level of austerity on Greece would lead to a return to growth much quicker and that the adverse effects would not be as severe as they turned out to be. The troika was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the rich had paid their taxes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----just like if the rich had paid their taxes in Ireland-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Angela Merkel is saying there will be no deal without conditionality, while the Greek Government has stated it cannot continue the programme and that it has no mandate to continue it because of the election result. It is stating it cannot do it anymore because the public will not stand for it, while Angela Merkel is saying there will be no deal unless Greece continues the programme with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister himself said it, saying there would be no bridging finance deal without conditionality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I share the Minister's concern, as I noted earlier. We are at a very serious point. The Greek Finance Minister rightly stated that we could be facing a house of cards if Greece is forced out because the ECB, Angela Merkel and other Governments are insisting on this hard-line refusal of a write down and making any deal conditional on keeping with a programme that the Greek people simply can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the one hand, the Minister is saying "no write-downs", which is what the Greeks want, but on the other, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine said that if the Greeks did get a write-down we would want one too. We are not going to help them to get a write-down but we want to benefit from any write-down they achieve. Is that not a shameful position to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Greece proposes a debt conference and a deal similar to that agreed for Germany at the end of the Second World War, will the Minister say "No way"?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill is really quite pathetically weak in dealing with the most serious of crises, the climate crisis, and all the dangers it poses nationally and globally. It is largely an exercise in lip service that is fairly typical of how the Government deals with many serious matters. There is much high-flown rhetoric and aspiration and many promises but, on burrowing into the detail, one...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not been translated into figures.