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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Drugs Scheme (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene with the Health Service Executive to ensure that Fampridine, Fampyra, which helps multiple sclerosis patients, is included on the Community Drugs Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17462/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Report (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Health when the sixth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Annual Report 2013 - 2014, due in early spring 2015, will be published [17537/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of recruitment under the aegis of his Department to the public sector since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18254/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of recruitment under the aegis of his Department to the public sector since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18253/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of recruitment to public sector bodies under the aegis of her Department since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18250/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of recruitment to the public sector under the aegis of his Department since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18251/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of recruitment, under the aegis of her Department, to the public sector, since the partial lifting of the embargo on recruitment. [18248/15]

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the figures on the revenue garnered each year, since their introduction of the household tax, the local property tax, the universal social charge and the pension levy, providing figures and totals for each year; the overall total since their establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17568/15]

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is doing its level best to trumpet and spin a supposed give-back to workers in the coming budget. My question seeks to put any so-called give-back in the context of how much workers and ordinary citizens have actually lost since 2008 on the various austerity taxes and charges, be it the local property tax, LPT, the universal social charge, USC, the pension levy or the...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 2011, up to €13 billion has been raised through the USC, €2 billion through the pension levy and close to €1 billion through the property tax. This has been an enormous gouging of moneys from the pockets of workers over recent years. We were told the property tax would improve local services. The USC was to be a social charge, while we discovered that the pension...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is right that I and others have been raising these issues for the past several years. It is useful, however, to see what the totals are and how much has been taken from the pockets of people who had no responsibility for the economic crisis. What have they got back for it? Nothing. That puts into context what the Minister claims he will give back to them. Another point I...

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us a break. Are those who speculate on the Stock Exchange workers too? I do not think so.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The super-rich did not. Denis O’Brien did not.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the millionaires?

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish he would answer the question.

Other Questions: Tax Yield (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is The Sunday Timesrich list a load of nonsense? Does Denis O’Brien not have all that money?

Challenges Facing the European Union: Statements (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Europe is supposed to mean anything, it should be about international solidarity among the peoples of Europe and creating a beacon of progress and an agency of peace in the world. However, that is not what the EU looks like today. We have war in Ukraine, in which Europe has a hand, hundreds of people desperately trying to get into Europe to escape terrible situations in the developing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Inequality (7 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance if he acknowledges, following the recent publication of The Sunday Times rich list, The TASC report, Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, and the Credit Suisse report on Global Wealth, that there is overwhelming evidence of a dramatic concentration and increase in the wealth of the very richest in Irish society; his views on whether a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting held on 19 and 20 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2166/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if European Union leaders discussed economic stagnation at the European Council meeting held on 19 and 20 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2167/15]