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Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The irony is beyond belief. The party of Charlie Haughey, Bertie Ahern and the Galway tent suggesting it knows how to clean up politics just beggars belief.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil's rotten relationship with big business, developers, bankers, and the super-wealthy has destroyed our economy. It has plunged 500,000 people into unemployment with tens of thousands leaving the country. Some of the most vulnerable sectors of our society are being punished in the most obscene way for the crimes Fianna Fáil committed.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not have jobs now thanks to Fianna Fáil. The Fianna Fáil Members should be holding their heads in shame for what they have done. I could take this Bill seriously if those Members put their hands up to say they were guilty of wrecking our economy and imposing unbelievable suffering on working people, the vulnerable and the poor. Fianna Fáil Members, however, have not done so....

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am for limiting them.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should limit the number of posters that parties-----

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should limit the number of leaflets candidates are allowed put through letter boxes.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should limit the number of advertisements and the expenditure generally.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do it in student union elections and, therefore, there is a level playing field.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are not serious about doing anything about it.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have a decontamination period for politicians and people in high public office-----

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in terms of them being able to serve on the boards of corporations where there is a conflict of interest. That is a practice that continues where people walk out of very senior jobs in Government and the public service and go straight on to the boards of big business, which often they have been dealing with directly in particular areas only weeks or months previously.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot deal with the issue of political corruption unless we deal with the gross inequalities in wealth. As long as 5% of the population have 40% of the wealth they will always corrupt politics. Anyone who is serious about dealing with the corruption in politics must deal with the gross inequalities in wealth, and that means imposing taxes on the super wealthy in our society whom both...

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, will you tell the Fianna Fáil Members to be quiet?

Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, although the Member who asked the question is not present, Members who are present have tabled questions that may not be reached. Can I ask that Members simply note the Minister's response and move on?

Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Deputy O'Dea might consider some of the other Members who have questions on the Order Paper.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I have a later question that will not be reached, I will try to connect it to this question on the issue of retaining jobs as well as creating them. Given they handed him a letter, the Minister will be familiar with the Connolly Shoes workers in Dun Laoghaire who were sacked, having been 17 months on strike, and who have now been found by the Employment Appeals Tribunal to have been...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The legislation is inadequate - that is the point. He still walks away with virtually nothing even though the finding was in his favour.

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does starving children help to incentivise work?

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36002/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of unemployment in his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if so, the response that she gave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36003/11]