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- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we come?
- Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These cuts to CE schemes must be set against today's announcement in the Finance Bill that the Government will give special tax breaks to extraordinarily highly paid, high flying executives in the financial and corporate sector so that they can pay less tax on their unbelievably high earnings. It is okay to do that because, apparently, it will bring us jobs. On the other hand, the...
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why we are giving bribes to foreign executives.
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that why the Government is cutting postgraduate grants?
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So why is the Government cutting postgraduate grants?
- National Disability Strategy: Statements (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the very important area of disability. I do not doubt the Minister of State's commitment to deal fairly with people with disabilities and to provide the resources and supports necessary for them. We are all human beings and we all want to see people treated humanely and in a dignified way. However, it is easy to talk about consulting and reviewing...
- Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers that have retired or are due to retire at the end of February under the recent public sector retirement scheme; the total number of social workers that will then be in the State; and the way this number will enable her to fully resource the services needed to put the Children First guidelines on a...
- Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to get my head around the answer the Minister has given. If I understand her correctly, at the beginning of last year, there were 2,342 social workers and at the end of 2011 there were ten more. That is a net increase of ten but 71 will retire at the end of February, representing a reduction in the number of social workers. I am unsure whether the 60 that have been...
- Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. If one adds the increase of ten to the 60, that makes 70. However, with 71 to retire in February, that is a net decrease of one social worker. How on earth can the Minister claim this is meeting the recommendations of the Ryan report? More important, how can this possibly provide the required social work resources to meet the Children First guidelines which the Minister has...
- Health Service Staff (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister clarify that under her watch, after retirements at the end of February, we are talking about a net increase of one social worker, according to her figures? This is against a background of children waiting 18 months for psychological assessment or six months to have hearing assessed, for example. In order to implement the Children First guidelines, we are going to need many...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the referendums that he proposes to hold this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6591/12]
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Based on answers to previous questions and on the Government's general commitment to a new republic, constitutional conventions and more open and accountable politics, one would imagine this means a political system that is more responsive to the popular will on key issues confronting the Government. Given the Taoiseach has committed the Government to supporting a treaty, which is not an EU...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that does not require a referendum? It is beyond me. With all the love circulating on St. Valentine's day, does this extend to the majority of people in this country, who have indicated they want a referendum on this treaty, and will the commitment to new and open democratic politics lead the Taoiseach to conclude that we should have a referendum as a matter of priority? If the...
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I listen to the Taoiseach blather on every week. What is the difference?
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am for Connolly's Republic.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach read the growth rates?
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the European constitution.
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disappointing that the Taoiseach has descended to referring to views that are not in agreement with his own as "rant" and "blather".
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it not be more accurate to use those words to describe the comments the Taoiseach made in Davos-----
- Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when he said the Irish people "went mad borrowing" and blamed them for the economic crisis?