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Army Barracks (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless one is a banker, of course.

Overseas Missions (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for overseas missions involving Irish military personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31566/11]

Personal Explanation by Minister of State (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the former Deputy the reason the Government is making cuts?

Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were not here.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday the Minister took offence at the fact that we used words such as "massacre" to describe the cuts in the health service and "war zone" to describe the situation in our accident and emergency departments. He accused us of hyperbole. What else can one call removing 2,300 beds from the hospital service, and 5,000 over a longer period, aside from a massacre of bed numbers? What else...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The average household is paying between €4,500 and €5,500 of its income per year for this wonderful health system the Minister cites. Half of the Dutch hospitals are bankrupt. Half a million people in the Netherlands do not have any insurance cover at all. It is not better. It is stealth privatisation, and we reject it. We want a national health service.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to allow for a debate before noon on the question of paying the Anglo Irish Bank bondholder. There are two simple reasons. The Tánaiste, in January of this year, described specifically the decision to pay off Anglo Irish Bank bondholders at the expense of the Irish taxpayer as economic treason. That is a serious charge. Now he is continuing with that act of...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the closure of accident and emergency units and hospital beds all over the country-----

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----from Bantry to Letterkenny to Loughlinstown, is approximately €700 million, the same amount as this bond.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give this Dáil the chance to vote on whether we want €700 million to go into our hospitals and accident and emergency units or into the pockets of anonymous bondholders and speculators. At least give the Dáil a chance to discuss that and vote on it, and let everybody nail their colours to the mast, showing on which side they stand.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He can do it.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of Greece have won, through their determination and resilience, the right to have a vote.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have won the right to have a vote on their economic and social future.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will not even give this Parliament the right to discuss the money that is being cut out of the health service and other public services and which is to be handed over to anonymous bondholders. It is showing a shameful contempt for democracy.

European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is our referendum on this crazy policy of bailing out bondholders and inflicting brutal austerity on ordinary people? How can the Taoiseach justify the pre-election rhetoric of describing the bailing out of the bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank as economic treason when his Government has chosen to continue committing treason now that the election is over? Where is his respect for...

Written Answers — Promissory Notes: Promissory Notes (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will name the original purchasers of the bonds that are now being paid out in the €700 million payout to bondholders on 2 November 2011. [32344/11]

Written Answers — Promissory Notes: Promissory Notes (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the bondholders to whom the cheques are written that make up the €700 million payout on 2 November 2011; and the amount payable on each cheque. [32345/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be saved to the Exchequer by bringing in new rates of income tax as follows 50% on all income between €100,000 and €150,000 per annum, 60% on all income between €150,000 and €200,000 per annum and 70% on all income above €200,000 per annum. [32342/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that would be saved by the Exchequer by increasing the current minimum effective tax rate as follows 40% on all income between €125,000 and €175,000 per annum, 50% on all income between €175,000 and €225,000 per annum and 60% on all income above €225,000 per annum. [32343/11]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of special needs assistants for the schools in Shankill, Dublin will be carried out; the reason the wait has been so long; and the reason the planned visit of the special education needs organiser for week beginning 17 October 2011 was cancelled. [32147/11]