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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there have been any changes to the granting of the domiciliary care allowance to parents of children with autism; if there is a review of extant cases; the number, if any, that have lost their domiciliary care allowance on this basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5116/12]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been a review of all persons in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance; if there have been any changes to the criteria on which this is granted; and if so, the number of persons that have lost the payment. [5117/12]
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the continuing ill-treatment of the La Senza workers at the hands of KPMG and I wrote to him about it as requested. I got further calls today informing me that their P45s were-----
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----not done properly by KPMG and have been refused by Revenue. In that context there is an urgent need to introduce industrial relations legislation to prevent such shoddy treatment of workers. Given all that has happened in recent weeks, does the Government plan to introduce new industrial relations legislation to prevent the kind of mistreatment of workers we have seen with the La Senza...
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had to write it up.
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I e-mailed it to the Taoiseach an hour later.
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach get the e-mail?
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach contact KPMG?
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said he would yesterday.
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I sent it to him yesterday.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the last election Fine Gael and the Labour Party railed against the arrogance of the Fianna Fáil Government and promised more democracy and accountability, open government and to get Ireland working. Yet, one year on the Government is conspiring with EU leaders to deny people a vote on the treaty which will further and substantially dismantle democracy across Europe and lock the...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and antidemocratic. What will the next move be? Will we do away with elections altogether because the people do not understand what the sages on the other side of the House do? Let us be absolutely clear about the legal position, no matter how the Government twists and turns to try to get out of it. The treaty refers to permanent measures. Permanent means no government can change...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Put the people before the bankers and speculators. The Government should get our money back from them and invest in jobs and growth. If the Government will not listen to the people, the people had better start taking to the streets.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well said.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Flanagan has not had a chance to speak. I will give way.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State explain, given the targets of the EU-IMF programme, which require sucking huge amounts of money out of the economy up to 2015 with a further requirement to go beyond that to meet the targets in this treaty, how we will get growth and where that growth will come from? Will the Minister of State respond to the downgrading of growth projections for this economy and...
- Economic Forecasting (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the recent downgrading of growth projections by the IMF and others, for Ireland and the Eurozone economies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5893/12]
- Economic Forecasting (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's response is made up of "on the one hand this and on the other hand that" and the view that we should wait and see. I am calling on the Minister to respond to the alarming but accurate concerns expressed by a major international financial body, the IMF. It is a body that I do not have much time for and whose activities over the years have contributed substantially to the mess...
- Economic Forecasting (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister explain it to me, please, because the economics of his outlook appear to defy gravity? If we continue to cut as required by the fiscal compact and the austerity programme will it not inevitably produce the same result that we have seen in recent months, that is, growth will continue to contract and we will enter a downward spiral? How can anything else happen if the...
- Economic Forecasting (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not interested in the fiscal target of 8.6%, I am interested in growth and jobs and that is what my question was about. The Minister should not deliberately misinterpret my question by referring to the Irish economy. I referred in particular to Christine Lagarde's comments about the entire eurozone. Ireland's growth projection is down, as is the case for Europe and Germany. Who will...