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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referendums he will hold over the period of this Government. [17146/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if property management companies are regulated; if not, her plans to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19204/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put Mandarin on the curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19656/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the use of bin tags in houses that are unable to have wheelie bins will be affected by the new waste management legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is assessing payments under the disability allowance scheme and the family income supplement scheme for rent purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19582/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for extra hours under the home help scheme, including when he will make a decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19127/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 469. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19213/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for renewing the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions prior to this renewal with the Department of Finance on alternative revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that public...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Minister say, with a straight face, that he is doing anything other than putting a gun to the head of public sector workers? That gun is called FEMPI. The Minister has really outlined it. There is a series of pieces of legislation that have absolutely no justification any longer because there is no financial emergency. The financial emergency is over and the Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----public sector workers with this legislation that should be abolished?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the victims of the FEMPI legislation are sitting in the Visitors Gallery today, newly qualified teachers, young teachers and local authority workers who have been crucified with this emergency legislation first brought in by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party and continued by Fine Gael and the Labour Party. The Minister has not answered the key question. Is there still an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no problem doing that. First, the Minister got a bounce of an extra €2 billion in corporate tax receipts last year. We are €700 million ahead of target on tax revenue at the moment, much of it coming from the corporate sector because we on this side of the House began to demand action on the "double Irish" tax scam that has started to force these corporations to pay a...

Other Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is available?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his rationale for renewing the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions with the Department of Finance prior to this renewal on alternative possible revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most shocking aspects of the emergency measures taken was what was done to newly qualified teachers, nurses and public servants. There is nothing in the Lansdowne Road agreement that commits to doing anything about that pay apartheid. What is the Minister going to do? How can he justify the sort of pay apartheid that will mean that somebody who happens to come in after 2012...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk of negotiations is not a commitment to get rid of something that is patently unfair. Rather, it suggests that the Minister does not intend to fully get rid of something that is completely unjustifiable - namely, this sort of pay apartheid. In terms of new entrants, a lot of teachers now have no incentive whatsoever to increase their qualifications, particularly those that would...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never said there would not be economic growth. The question is whether the benefits of that growth would accrue to the majority or to a tiny elite. That is why we raise this issue. It is extraordinary, cynical and laughable for the Minister to suggest that FEMPI was not a major factor in essentially threatening people with a stick or sword over their head and saying that if they did not...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we have the right to vote on the motion so that Members can at least show their colours in terms of their attitude to restoring the pay and conditions of public sector workers?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That could be collected in corporation tax.

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will end the new entrants pay differential across the public sector given the expanding economy and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19756/16]