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Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the arrangements, a Cheann Comhairle. The Tánaiste did that because he considered the wider implications of the attack.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I also ask the Tánaiste to consider the request-----

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to extend the time for debating the Bill on the grounds that the drastic reduction in the income disregard for lone parents, which is a direct disincentive to work for young women, makes a mockery of his commitment to jobs in the programme for national government?

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should reconsider that and allow us proper time to debate the issue.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we are not arguing for that. That is rubbish.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important that we have this discussion. Despite the fact that I disagree with much of what was said on the other side of the House, I welcome the seriousness with which some of the contributors on the Government side have engaged with the debate, which we badly need to have. Some of the comments were glib and off the point, although that was not true of any Deputies in the Chamber at...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government would want to wear some trousers.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But the Minister has cut them.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This will make it worse.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will drive single mums out of work.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we do not, we are banjaxed. Did the Minister see the growth projections?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the pressure exerted outside the tent that brought about the change.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister hit out at people with disabilities, the fuel allowance, rent supplement, footwear, clothing and back to education allowances, child benefit, hearing aid grants and lone parent support. It is absolutely clear that when talking about protecting the vulnerable, the Minister has done the exact opposite. She has hit every definition of vulnerable group, the disabled, the elderly,...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the wealthy.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle knows I understand.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a serious issue and the Tánaiste knows it. People are reeling with shock; lone parents, low income families and the elderly are reeling from the attacks meted out in this Bill. The very least they deserve is that the full implications of the attacks on their living standings are explained, particularly the Government's commitment to labour activation measures designed to get people...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will drive lone parents out of work and back into poverty. These serious implications deserve to be discussed in detail and not rammed through in this way by a Government that promised a new type of politics and a new type of openness and transparency. These austerity measures are being rammed through in an unfair and undemocratic way.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be 1,000 people outside the gates of Dáil Éireann appealing for a proper debate and a reversal of these cuts. Will the Tánaiste at least allow for a proper discussion?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is nonsense.