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Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Commuters. Not consumers.

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, it is not. The Minister is so right.

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about citizens. The Minister is absolutely right. These corridors seem like a good idea and I would be in favour of them. My fear, which was touched on by Deputy Ellis, is that against a background of consistent reductions in subsidies in the form of the public service payments to Dublin Bus, which have dropped every year, including every year under this Government - from...

Public Transport Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the proposed declaration is not highly objectionable in itself, it seems tokenistic. The taxi drivers are saying that the problem with proper regulation of the industry is enforcement - that not enough NTA staff are going around and doing checks to catch rogue drivers who are not compliant in a whole series of ways. This is of deep concern to bona fide taxi drivers. The declaration...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the four and a half years of its term, the Government has stumbled from crisis to crisis in terms of the fairly disastrous situation in the health service. It is a little like the story of Peter and the dyke, where one crisis appears and the Government moves under pressure to stick its finger in one hole and then, quickly, a crisis develops elsewhere. There have been multiple crises...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the activities for which the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company must seek consent before engaging in; if he is satisfied that the company acts within both the letter and the spirit of the law in terms of seeking consent and consulting with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31918/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have much to add as the main points have been made. I can understand the complexity of what Mr. Breslin is trying to do. However, the delay is unacceptable and has gone on for too long. Obviously, the suspicion is that the issue is just being fudged so as not to have to deal with it this side of a general election because it could be controversial. That is the suspicion one might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health (23 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we know when it has gone to the Government?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the issue of a referendum and the possible withdrawal of Britain from the European Union in his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32854/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the Government's position on British demands for changes to the treaty of the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32855/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I express great relief that the Taoiseach suggests his personality is very different from the British Prime Minister's because I would hate to think he had anything in common with some of the rather bizarre goings-on of the British Prime Minister in his younger university days, with strange engagements with pigs. That, at least, is a relief.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Less confidence inspiring is the Taoiseach's attitude to the concerns expressed by the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, and what lies behind those concerns. There is a need for the Taoiseach to very sharply distance himself and this country from what is motivating the Prime Minister in his attitude towards the EU referendum. I am less concerned about the European Union than I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am nearly finished. He was taken to some part of the west and was told that basically, he would have to pay not tax if he set up his business there. His response was that was all very fine, not paying tax, but he asked where were the roads and said taxes have to be paid in order to have roads. He went on from that to say that the key issue facing Europe - Mr. Corbyn is now also saying...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was his point. It is that sort of disillusionment, that growing gap between rich and poor, that growing alienation from the political institutions across Europe that is the biggest threat to Europe and the European Union.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get the rich to pay taxes?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Submissions (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings his Department has had with the Clearing House Group; if the group has submitted a budget submission to his Department; if so, if it will be made publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31770/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the labour activation schemes who are available; if she will provide, in tabular form, the numbers on each type of scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the cost of restoring the full rate of jobseeker's allowance for those under 26 years of age; of abolishing the discriminatory jobseeker's allowance rates for those under 26 years of age; of restoring the telephone allowance; of reversing the €50 cut to the back to school clothing and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of paying out and administering the water conservation grant for 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33390/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Yield (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of abolishing the universal social charge for all income earners earning less than €70,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32959/15]