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- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Writing in his most famous novel Ulysses between 1914 and 1921, he complains about the failure of the authorities to rehabilitate the country's decrepit water infrastructure. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in power ever since and we have the same decrepit water infrastructure as we had when Joyce was writing about it at the beginning of the last century. Spare us the nonsense.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Spare us the nonsense of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who have had the power to rehabilitate a water infrastructure which has been utterly decrepit for the last 70 years but have done nothing to the point that 50% of the water supply leaks out of our pipes and mains.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You guys are responsible for that and you did nothing about it. Now, under the auspices of the troika deal, the Government is moving to introduce charges and metering and to establish this company. The agenda is very simple because Fine Gael has had it for a long time. It tried to introduce water charges before and was defeated by mass public opposition. Its agenda is the same as that of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of changes to ambulance services across the country over the last two years, he will confirm that the response time target of 19 minutes for ECHO and DELTA calls is being reached and if not, the effect this is likely to have on health and safety issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7436/13]
- European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In his State of the Union address yesterday President Obama who is not a radical left winger argued strongly against the Republican majority in Congress which is seeking further spending cuts. He argued that spending cuts would be a disaster for the American economy and that what was needed was a stimulus and certainly not retrenchment. Is he not right in this regard? He does not go as far...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Along with many others I have raised the fact that the exemptions proposed-----
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the finance Bill are inadequate and they do not deal with the distress-----
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The finance Bill.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will allow me to finish because he has allowed everyone else go on.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have, actually.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If those in the Opposition are going to propose amendments allowing for further exemptions for those in mortgage distress, those who are unemployed and other groups whom we believe cannot afford to pay, will the Taoiseach give a commitment that those amendments will not be ruled out of order and that we will be allowed to put forward those amendments?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us were less than impressed last week with the hype with great fanfare around the so-called deal on the promissory notes. Some 100,000 people took to the streets at the weekend who clearly did not believe much had changed for them. This morning Professor Patrick Honohan, the Governor of the Central Bank, reminded us that household financial distress was at extraordinary and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the only thing that gets results.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach hates to admit it, but it is the only thing that gets results.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it going to be the end of anything?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Finance Bill is being published today. Where are the exemptions?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, the truth about the deal becomes clear. It is not going to make a whit of difference-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the people who are being hammered by cuts and on whom it is now planned to impose a further burden amounting to hundreds of euro a year by way of property charges. I know damn well that the Finance Bill under which this burden is going to be imposed was passed at the end of last year. However, given that the Taoiseach claims that we have saved ourselves billions of euro, why will...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----such as fully qualified nurses who cannot pay their bills? Why are there no exemptions or relief for them? Is that the truth about the deal made last week and the so-called exemptions being announced today, namely, that there is nothing for the people who are being hammered?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that the best the Taoiseach can do?