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Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 695: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of agencies which provide staff for his Department and for bodies and agencies under its aegis; the services they provide; the numbers of staff they provide; the cost of those services; the way this compares with direct employment of staff in equivalent roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36233/11]

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also ask that we be given an opportunity to debate the options and issues confronting the people before the budget. The Taoiseach has indicated that he will make a state of the nation address. Perhaps these two items could be put together and an address could be made about how the Taoiseach sees the issues facing the Government before the budget and the questions that will influence how...

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the state of the nation address?

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will publish the specific guidelines for accessing the €10 million humanitarian assistance package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36282/11]

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to understand the severity of this problem. In a series of locations in my area, namely, Blackrock, Sallynoggin and Stradbrook, and I suspect this is also the case elsewhere in the city and across the country, people have been repeat victims of flooding. It keeps happening in the same places and the consequences of it have been devastating. Flood waters mixed with sewage have...

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to remove the application of means-testing to funds under this scheme, to provide an insurance scheme for repeat flood victims who cannot get insurance because of the effect of flooding on their homes-----

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and to ensure the scheme also extends to paying for accommodation costs for people who have been displaced.

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be pointed out to the other Departments that are linked into addressing this issue that there needs to be a co-ordinated strategy to deal with all aspects of it in terms of insurance and dealing with the drainage and water infrastructure. With regard to the Minister's brief, I have received many reports of there being great inconsistency in what community welfare officers are...

Humanitarian Assistance (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is chairing it?

Social Welfare Fraud (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am coming at things from a slightly different angle on the same point. If the intention in focusing on fraud is really about reducing the social welfare bill, would it not also be quite important to focus on ridiculous anomalies such as, for example, the case of a young man named Fergus O'Farrell, who is mentioned in a question further down the list? He wants to go on the back to...

Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Labour Party give commitments prior to the election about not touching child benefit because it knew it would be wrong to attack the benefit? Does the Minister agree that the only consequence of cutting child benefit would be to increase child poverty and hit the most vulnerable sectors of society? Is it a red herring to speak about a few wealthy people benefitting from the payment...

Foreign Conflicts (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I call on the Government, in particular the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, to condemn immediately, clearly, unequivocally and publicly the Egyptian military regime for the massacre of 33 protestors in Tahrir Square during the weekend and as many as 50 protestors in the past week or two. I also ask the Government to call publicly and unequivocally for the military...

Foreign Conflicts (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Giving dates for elections does not impress me or the Egyptian people because elections were held under President Mubarak. The problem was that the Mubarak clique continued to rule with an iron fist. All political opposition was suppressed violently. Giving dates for elections means nothing, therefore; it is a charade while the military clique retains power which it uses to crush political...

Foreign Conflicts (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should call in the ambassador and ask him to stop the killing of people on the streets of Cairo.

Foreign Conflicts (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a no.

Commercial Rates: Motion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will pass over the irony of the fact that this motion was tabled by Fianna Fáil, given it did nothing about the rates system during its 14 years in power. Tens of thousands of small businesses are clinging on for survival by their finger nails because of the economic disaster Fianna Fáil inflicted on us and the austerity which it and the new Government continues to inflict. This is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the sense in denying the back to education allowance to a person (details supplied) which will mean that they will be forced to drop out of college, will then be eligible for a full dole payment in January but will not be able to go back to their course at this point; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On legislation the Government intends to introduce next week, it is bad enough that it intends to impose a regressive stealth tax on the most basic items human beings need to survive, namely, housing and water-----

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This matter relates to the schedule of business for next week. It is bad enough----

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated, I am specifically asking about legislation to be introduced next week. It is bad enough that the Government is proposing to impose taxes on housing and water services-----