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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that would be saved to the Exchequer by reducing all salaries for those paid with public money to a maximum of €100,000. [32341/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Rent Schemes: Local Authority Rent Schemes (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 285: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of all differential rent schemes across all the local authorities. [32145/11]

Written Answers — Local Authority Rent Schemes: Local Authority Rent Schemes (2 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 286: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make the necessary changes to the differential rent scheme in order that a person in receipt of an incapacitated child tax credit does not then pay more rent as a result. [32146/11]

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us a break. Services were privatised throughout the country. There were no campaigns in the remainder of the country.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will debate that issue on another day.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Kehoe must be kidding. Those opposite were responsible for privatising refuse collections and year after year they voted in favour of the imposition of bin charges.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give me a break.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Large numbers of people were badly affected by the flooding that occurred on Monday, 24 October last. Many of these individuals are repeat victims of flooding. In Blackrock, which is in the constituency the Tánaiste and I represent, I met people whose houses have been flooded and badly damaged for the umpteenth time as a result of the Maretimo Stream overflowing. Is legislation being...

Order of Business (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a timeline in respect of this matter?

Child Abuse (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the children first guidelines will be put on a statutory footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32528/11]

Child Abuse (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Children First guidelines were first published in 1999, 12 years ago, yet they are still not on a statutory footing. That understandably leads people to be anxious about the commitment of the Government to put them on a statutory footing. Notwithstanding the commitments the Minister is making about them being effectively implemented in many areas, the whole point of putting them on a...

Written Answers — Youth Homelessness: Youth Homelessness (3 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the announcement that funding to homeless services is being cut by up to 10%, the measures she is putting in place to protect the welfare of homeless children and young persons. [32529/11]

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his plans to alleviate the escalating trolley problem in accident and emergency units here; if it is his intention to review plans for the downgrading of accident and emergency units in smaller hospitals in view of the worsening problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33484/11]

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 366 people were on trolleys yesterday, with 34 in Galway, 38 in Drogheda, 31 in St. Vincent's, 27 in Beaumont and 24 in Mullingar. Some 20 people were on trolleys in Wexford before they realised the Minister, Deputy Howlin, was coming down. Additional staff were magicked into the hospital and another ward was opened to get people out of the Minister's way so that it looked nice when he...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that they are in chaos and are not working? The idea that we get more from less when it comes to accident and emergency units is nonsense. We get less for less and we get more chaos. The only beneficiary of this are the people I hear day in, day out on the radio, such as the Blackrock Clinic and the Beacon Clinic, advertising for people to come to their private accident...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle did not interrupt anyone else like that.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are questions.

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that money follows the patient in a situation where there is this level of chaos in accident and emergency units? The patients will walk out of public accident and emergency units, which are being slashed by cuts, and they will be encouraged to walk into private hospitals and public money will follow them. If the Minister wanted to do something about this and make some...

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----he would cut the €500 million or €750 million that is going in subsidies to private consultants-----

Accident and Emergency Services (8 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a question. Would it not be better - that is a question - if, instead of cutting staff and budgets in our public accident and emergency units, we cut the subsidies going to private consultants and other private health care providers?