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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what we are supposed to do now, on Committee Stage of the Bill.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish we had enough time to debate this properly. This means people must work much longer in this category to qualify for the contributory pension. If they do not have sufficient years paid in contributions, they must rely on the State non-contributory pension, a lesser pension that is means tested. That is an attack on a particular group and the pension entitlements they might have...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Part-time workers.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it has not been withdrawn.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When one considers this measure and the other measures, namely, the concurrent payment and the income disregard, all of which are directed at lone parent families that might be trying to return or that have returned to the workplace and when one also takes into account the community employment cuts, it is difficult to believe the Minister has not resorted to specifically targeting-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. Is the Minister-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----specifically targeting single mothers? Can the Minister respond and-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----explain how she can honestly claim-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----she wishes to encourage lone parents to return to work when she is removing precisely those supports that allow them to so do?

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Counterculture.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is acting like one though.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to keep the Taoiseach on his toes.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach intend via the council to take action against EBS, which is a State owned bank, to deal with the appalling situation where 300 of its workforce have had a month's pay, worth €2,500, taken off them while managers and executives of that bank are, scandalously, not having a penny taken off their high salaries or incomes? This is an absolute scandal. This was effectively-----

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----part of their annual salary and these workers have lost, at two days notice and just before Christmas, €2,500 each on average.

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach, via the economic management council, tell the EBS to give those workers their money back and take the money off the top earners in the EBS instead?

Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done.

European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if there has been further progress in his attempts to meet President Sarkozy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37393/11]

European Council Meetings (13 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach the agenda for the meeting of EU leaders on 9 December 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37394/11]