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Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a day of shame for the former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Labour Party when he cut the pay of new entrant teachers and other public servants, something that played a big part in the decimation of the Labour Party. It is really unconscionable that this pay apartheid continues. I know the Minister has talked about negotiations but we want to know...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider speeding up the restoration of the public service pension so that pensioners revert to their pre-financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation pensions by 1 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend full and equal pension rights to public sector workers who identify as LGBTI and allow them to upgrade their pensions to spouse and children pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19753/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether separate religious instruction is immediately necessary to allow for children not of the patron's faith to attend their local national school; the steps he will take to ensure this is in place for enrolments in 2016 given the report of the constitution review group, 1996, as repeated in the report of the forum on patronage...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that a person (details supplied) is given suitable accommodation for a family, given that the unreliability of the self-accommodation system is incredibly difficult for the family who are moving around. [19934/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied) who is out of work due to illness and who is in receipt of payments under the disability allowance scheme and the living alone allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19932/16]

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support and welcome this all-party motion as an escalation, at least, of the political intervention of this House in securing the release of Ibrahim Halawa, a prisoner of conscience. I pay tribute to his family for their resoluteness in continuing to fight for the release of their brother. However, I have to be honest and say that I do not believe we are going to secure his release until...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a misguided, flawed Bill. It is more of the same failed policy approach that has brought us to the fairly sorry pass we are now at. In a way, it is also the worst sort of opportunism in that it plays politics with deadly serious issues such as drug addiction and gangland crime. The bizarre response to that can only really be explained by knee-jerk political opportunism, combined...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts to the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19850/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Cases (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to publish all advice from the Attorney General and any other State and semi-State body or agency which informed her decision to appeal the historic landmark decision of a High Court Judge (detailed supplied) to designate the Moore Street battlefield site in Dublin 1 as a national monument; and if she will make a statement on the...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is a hoot.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Iceland did not do too badly.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the debate about again?

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not hear Deputy Donnelly's speech yesterday but I received an e-mail from somebody who did, who had e-mailed me last February about her mortgage and engagement with the financial institution that used to be Irish Nationwide and became IBRC. It is telling about what is at stake in all of this. I will read out a little of what the person says:I am an IBRC mortgage holder with a...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolutely fair thing to do, although I am sticking quite closely to the subject matter of it, as opposed to certain previous speakers who managed to stray into discussion of the Brexit vote.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is legitimate, and I will explain the connection if it is not clear. I think it is fairly clear. This is about the disposal of its assets by Anglo Irish Bank and IBRC and huge write-downs it gave to the benefit of one person we know, at least, who happens to be Ireland's wealthiest and most powerful businessman - somebody who had a record of past connections with a previous Fine...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party Deputies are not here.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is still no one here from the Labour Party.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not 15 minutes?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened to the Minister's speech earlier. He implied that those of us looking to completely abolish FEMPI legislation essentially have no plan to finance such a move. He implied that we were reckless and that the calls amounted to the politics of permanent protest and so on. First of all, let me state what we are talking about. We are talking about money that was stolen, mostly from...