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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in issuing a medical card to a person (details supplied). [37772/11]

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fact that the Government is seeking to extend the disastrous decision to guarantee the banks in this country is proof positive that there is not a scintilla of difference between it and the last one. It demonstrates most graphically that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, notwithstanding the Punch and Judy show that sometimes goes on in here, are exactly the same when it comes to the core...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan, Seamus Healy, Catherine Murphy, Mick Wallace, Thomas Pringle and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a two-tier system. It is an obscenity that access to decent health care is dependent on how much money a person has. We are in a situation where, as a result of the EU-IMF arrangement, albeit under the cover of health and safety considerations, health services are being slashed across the country. Local hospitals and accident and emergency units are being downgraded and there is a...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not putting people to work.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the evidence that they are putting people to work?

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is deluded.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Taoiseach talking about?

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some €16 per month-----

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this the new scapegoat?

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As is traditional in the worst of Irish politics, the Government tried to be clever with the budget. There may have been a few smug smiles as the Minister announced tokens to make the budget look as if it was fairer, but they were just tokens, or tricks of the eye. The budget, as announced yesterday and today, is cruel and stupid. The Government made a cold and calculated decision to attack...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputies Seamus Healy and Catherine Murphy have made the point that this measure will lead to more winter deaths. Delaying it until next May does not make it any more palatable. It is a vicious attack on the most vulnerable sector of society. There is a double whammy on petrol, which will be economically damaging because VAT is also being increased. All these cuts will disproportionately...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a lot of smoke and mirrors to try to deflect from the real meat of this budget. It is when we reach a proposal such as this that we see how completely retrograde and bankrupt this budget is. This is a make the poor poorer tax. There is no question about it. Loading this tax on things needed by people who have already been savaged with cuts and who barely have enough to keep...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to know a little more about this resolution. Turning property into a commodity for speculation, trade and profiteering is the reason we are in the mess we are in now. Property-based tax reliefs particularly directed at developers fuelled the property bubble that has crashed our economy. I find it worrying that the Government's approach to trying to restart economic activity in...

Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is wrong that these measures are grouped together.

Financial Resolution No. 12: Life Assurance Policies and Investment Funds (6 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The resolutions contain measures that I would broadly support, although I would have questions about them even where I support the principle. In so far as we are talking about increasing taxes on capital gains, when one is talking about people who have lots of capital and assets to hand on, then people should be taxed to a significant extent. It is an inadequate measure in the direction of...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also object strongly to the proposal. We have spent days, sometimes two weeks, debating Bills that had less significance than the Social Welfare Bill, which contains measures that will seriously hurt some of the most vulnerable sectors in society. It is outrageous in that context that the Bill should be rammed through in such a short period. The Tánaiste has rightly backed off on the...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just a moment, a Cheann Comhairle. It is about the reason-----

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the reason for the arrangements.