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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How could it allow greater access?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who makes the ruling?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How would making the general practitioner the officer to determine eligibility involve greater access?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman has articulated a possible explanation. All of the points she has made have nothing whatsoever to do with the Bill because they are arguments around it. They are assumptions people are making that have nothing to do with the Bill which is about meeting certain criteria. Does it state anywhere that, when deciding whether somebody is eligible or meets the criteria, budgetary...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a different matter.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I most certainly will. I really believe the decision to rule amendment No. 5 out of order is baseless.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I submitted these two amendments and I will revert to them on Report Stage because there is no doubt in my mind that this section involves a deliberate subtle or not so subtle attempt to tighten eligibility and entitlement for carers. That is unacceptable. What it is doing essentially is to retrospectively legislate for what has been happening in practice, which is a tightening up of...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly my point.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has confirmed what I said. He has read out the same passages that I read to him a moment ago and that is the reason I tabled these amendments. He has confirmed that we are shifting the emphasis to the deciding officer. He has clarified that it is the deciding officer who only has "to take into account". What does that mean? They have to take into account the medical...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The phased reduction over a period of three years of the back-to-work family dividend will mean a progressive reduction in the overall income of lone parents who work more than 19 hours, and in the third year the payment will disappear altogether. It defies my understanding as to how this is an incentive for people to get back to work if they will lose out and their income will fall.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am working off the tables that SPARK put together, which set out that the transition will mean people who are working will lose out in general. The losses are spelt out whereby someone working 20 hours could lose up to €80.52 per week in the third year, someone working 28 hours could lose up to €66 per week and someone is working 35 hours could lose up to €54 per week....
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am merely concerned with regard to lone parents. These people are losing out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a fair observation and it is reasonable to say that we do not see many of the faces of the new communities and minorities in Irish society represented in RTE. If the station is to be truly reflective of Irish society, we would want to see the situation improve. I take the point made by RTE that it complies with equality legislation and tries to recruit people based on merit. What...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If I could comment, I met the petitioner on a number of occasions. As I explained to him, neither I nor this committee is in a position to adjudicate on the specific events that occurred with him. However, he seems to raise some legitimate concerns and a legitimate issue as to whether there is a level playing field when a student - one could more generally say "an individual" - is dealing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have we a schedule of the big ticket items that are coming up in the next while and what slots are available? The reason I ask is because there is one particular petition of which I am aware that was submitted recently from representatives of the taxi drivers and it is time constrained. There is a new regime of charging and also to do with the metering in taxis which requires them all to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is towards the end of April which, I accept, is a short timeframe for us. However, it is a fairly substantial issue affecting a lot of people. They deserve their opportunity to put their case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That would be great.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a proper plan.