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Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and those demands being made by Ministers who are on €140,000 a year? Would James Connolly not be spinning in his grave at what the Tánaiste is trying to do to these workers?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Tánaiste seriously talk of respect when Ministers who are earning €140,000 a year, several multiples of what teachers, nurses or firefighters are earning, are asking those workers-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to take even further cuts in pay and conditions?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to workers, who can barely make their mortgage payments, who can barely pay their bills. How are they supposed to-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How are those, who are already in mortgage distress and in arrears, supposed to pay their mortgages? How are they supposed to pay the home tax the Government now wants to impose on them?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Ceann Comhairle not understand the subjunctive? I asked the Tánaiste how are they supposed to pay their mortgages and their bills, or the home taxes.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What makes the Tánaiste think-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the Government can justify another-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: After you cutting across me, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, it was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

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

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle stated it was not a question; it was.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Tánaiste-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Tánaiste answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pay cuts.

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has claimed repeatedly that it is legally prevented from cutting the obscene pensions of former politicians and top civil servants. As we speak, however, the Government is moving to tear up an agreement made with public sector workers that was supposed to run until the middle of 2014, and is demanding further drastic cuts in pay and conditions for public sector workers who...

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis of mortgage distress is a disaster that will soon turn into a catastrophe. More than 160,000 families are suffocated with an unsustainable debt burden and the number is rising by approximately 800 every week. Nothing has been done. After two years in government there is no let up on the deepening of this crisis. The Government refuses - for reasons I cannot understand - to...