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Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy should look at his addiction to neoliberalism.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on the impact the changes in funding will make to hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7558/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the closure of 900 beds; the plans to cut more beds; the hospitals specifically that are at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7559/11]

Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to press the Taoiseach on the matter of a debate on the staggering announcement by AIB in regard to 2,000 job losses and the anticipated announcement regarding further job losses elsewhere in the banking system. When is it proposed to hold that debate on, as acknowledged by the Taoiseach, this serious matter?

Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not time, given this announcement of horrendous job losses, to re-examine legislation dealing with excessive remuneration for executives-----

Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ------in banks which are effectively State owned?

Croke Park Agreement (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apart from the injustice of visiting pay cuts on low and middle income public sector workers, what about the economic irrationality of it? If the Government takes money out of the pockets of ordinary workers who spend in the economy, it has a detrimental effect because demand is reduced and the economy contracts. The only public sector reform we should examine is one that deals with...

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to avail of the wisdom and experience of the people who have been here much longer than I have been on the issue of-----

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the relationship between the Taoiseach's Department and State boards, semi-States and so on. I submitted a question on the accountability for semi-States and State boards, which was passed to the Minister for Finance by which I was little surprised. Is it not to the Taoiseach the people on State boards and semi-State boards should be responsible and should we not be allowed ask the...

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a general question about semi-State companies and State boards.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing my time with Deputies Mattie McGrath, Healy and Ross.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the arguments about the debate that happened at the European Council have been gone through and I have a short time to make my points. As Deputy Doherty stated, no doubt all of us want to sort out the mess we are in, but what seems to me extraordinary is that there is no willingness on the part of the Government to recognise that the path we are being asked to go down by the IMF and...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be siding with people in Portugal who are standing up to it, and people on the streets in Greece and Spain who are saying that neither do they want to pay for the crimes of politicians, bankers and the corporate elite. Should we not stand up with those people and stop the insanity?

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste is correct to ask for constructive questions and contributions to this debate. Perhaps the Tánaiste agrees that it is very difficult to take seriously the castigation and criticism by Fianna Fáil when it has not got down on bended knee and asked for forgiveness from the people of this country for what it has done to them. I refer to Fianna Fáil's major culpability in...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the prescriptions of the EU and the IMF, irrespective of how we got here, are moving us in the opposite direction to that which allows for job growth and economic growth? The EU and IMF require austerity, which is sucking money out of the economy. For Greece to get a miserable 1% reduction on its interest rate, it had to agree to €50 billion worth of privatisation....

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we to accept that? We are moving in the opposite direction, instead of stimulating the economy.

Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil has some nerve in talking about safeguarding education spending or commending its own record. It is quite extraordinary. Its record includes cutting Traveller education resources, putting a cap on special needs assistance and cutting the co-ordination of rural services for the disadvantaged, in other words, hitting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of society....

Written Answers — Inshore Fishing Industry: Inshore Fishing Industry (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to revive the inshore fishing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7784/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance, in view of the fact that the one-parent family tax credit can be withdrawn on the basis that a person is living with another person as man and wife, if he will explain, when a person does not wish to declare themselves to be living with another person as man and wife, the criteria used by the Revenue Commissioners to make that decision on their...

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the forthcoming minimum wage legislation to which the Tánaiste referred, would he agree that while the introduction of that legislation is something many workers would have looked forward to as------