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Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As in so many areas, the Government is disastrously letting down children and parents. The cost of child care is a disaster, as is the failure of the State to invest adequately in providing affordable child care. The average cost of child care is €162 a week, but the cost can be as high as €1,000 or €2,000 a month. This means someone with average earnings of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on talks and-or negotiations with the public sector unions regarding the abolition of the pension levy and how this relates to the commitment in the Croke Park agreement to use savings to the Exchequer from this agreement to restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the agreement under the Croke Park agreement deal that savings made from the deal would restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5746/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to intervene in the ongoing industrial dispute at a site (details supplied) in west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the Prime Minister for the United Kingdom around the political talks leading up to the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4358/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In a peculiar way, we are going to achieve the unity of this island that we have long strived for. It will not be a unity achieved in prosperity; it will be a unity achieved by making ordinary working people North and South the victims of the austerity agenda. Is it not the case that the Stormont House Agreement which the Taoiseach, the Tory Government and now, sadly, Sinn Féin are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not against Deputy Gerry Adams but against the agreement.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was about Roman Catholics and Protestants marching together against austerity.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not delivering better services.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an updated list of countries from outside the EU from which his Department and the Defence Forces purchase equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6899/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase a rent allowance payment in respect of a person (details supplied) to prevent them from going homeless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7325/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Vice Chairman for allowing me to come to the committee meeting and ask some questions, because I am not a member of the committee. What is the global figure for all participants in all the different activation schemes? There is some debate about the relationship between the number on schemes and the apparent fall in unemployment. Does the Department in any way track the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to do with employment and how it is defined. Carers for adults who, as a result of the changes in the one-parent family scheme-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Department acknowledge the fall from 41% to 34%? I have heard a figure of 60%, on which Mr. McKeon might comment. He seems to acknowledge that the removal of the concurrent payment has led to deactivation, not activation, but the Department is claiming that it has come back up a little. Is there an acknowledgement that it was a retrograde move that has to be remedied if it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Questioning it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue will be in the Dáil today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Vice Chairman has called me a bit quicker than I thought he would.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Vice Chairman for allowing me to speak, as I am not a member of the committee, and apologies to those whose presentations I missed. I thank the Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids, SPARK, for the briefing yesterday, which was very informative. I asked a question earlier of Mr. Egan. He seemed to acknowledge that the removal of the concurrent payment, which is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies. He referred to a significant worsening of the situation for lone parents who are working, and the figures are set out in the document. SPARK might confirm that it does not even include the impact of the loss of the concurrent payment, which is on top of this, and, therefore, we have had a double whammy of dramatic proportions. I would like to hear what the Department has to say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If a carer is looking after adults, not children, he or she will lose €86. The Minister said they will look at that but the point was made whether that could be addressed with the family income supplement, FIS, and other payments. The response was that they no longer do two payments. Is that true? Is it not the case that there are groups that do get two payments? Widows and...