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- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7:In page 6, to delete lines 31 to 38, and in page 7, to delete lines 1 to 30.This was discussed on Committee Stage, and in an effort to be reasonable and take on board the Government's concerns while addressing the issues we raised, we have tabled a series of amendments which shift the balance of presumption about people's entitlement to carers and supports towards the...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe the Government on this one. There is no justification to the changes it is making. From an objective analysis of the current legislative wording, any sane and sensible person will see the Government is tightening the criteria around the eligibility to justify current practice which is completely wrong and unfair. It inflicts unnecessary hardship on legitimate applicants...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do believe the Minister of State but I do not believe the Government's intent in terms of this legislation. We have all seen, in practice, what is going on. The Government needs to get its head around what is going on and the actual intention of this legislation. When one looks at this issue in the round one begins to wonder if the thought process behind this Bill is to shave a...
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, made a very significant announcement in Limerick this morning to journalists about social housing. The announcement was not made in this House, despite the fact the housing crisis is probably the most serious social emergency we have in the country. Will the Taoiseach explain why he did not...
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the intention of the Government to have the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, come to the House and explain what he said to journalists?
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will there be a debate in this House on it?
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why I am asking the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want a debate on the strategy.
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no action. This is bogus. There is no action except in Limerick.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have certainly had to think long and hard about my attitude to the final vote on this Bill, and I had to consult colleagues. This is because a trick is being played with this Bill. The trick is to smuggle in a very regressive measure under the cover of one that is marginally progressive. I find that sort of politics quite dishonest. It is a way of trying to blackmail the Opposition into...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is what is in the Bill. That is the point I am making. The implication is that doctors are lying and writing false testimonies on a large scale. I do not believe that for a minute. Even if there are a small number of abuses, the idea that the Government would frame the legislation on the presumption that large numbers of GPs are lying is rubbish. It is an absolutely unacceptable way...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, the Minister of State does.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not tie anything.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: After appeals.
- Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Once upon a time what we now call banking was known as usury and it was illegal to lend money at interest because back in those days they understood the potential for lenders to engage in profiteering and extortion, and held that to be completely immoral. We have moved from that and now not only is it not illegal to engage in extortion and profiteering when lending money to people, but these...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Data (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up-to-date figures on the total earnings of the top 1%, 10% and 20% income categories, indicating for each category the number of earners, the total earnings, the average earnings, the total income tax paid in absolute and percentage effective tax rate terms, including the universal social charge and pay related social insurance,...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Value (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the National Asset Management Agency cash reserves; his plans for expenditure; the role he has in deciding how cash reserves are spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13116/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I pay tribute to Anti-Deportation Ireland, the Anti Racist Network and other groups that have spoken out on behalf of people in direct provision or, most important, the people in direct provision whose campaigning and protests brought this issue to the fore. I remind the Minister of State that he and I travelled to a big protest in Genoa in 2001 for the G8 meeting. One of the big slogans at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly worries me and places question marks over the process.