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- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Often, this debate is set in polarised ideological terms. I suspect that much of the Government's support for this policy approach is not just due to demands by the troika that this be done, as the Government sometimes suggests. Ideologically, the Government agrees with the troika that the private market is the only means of generating jobs. This viewpoint is captured in the mantra that...
- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People before Profit and the United Left Alliance will not be supporting this Greek loan facility, as they opposed the previous ones. This so-called new bailout arrangement for Greece is parading itself as a helping hand for the people of Greece when, in reality, it is a further death grip on the Greek economy and its citizens. It is poison parading as medicine. It requires further locking...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not getting the point of the question. The report states while death rates from suicide decreased by 15% between 2000 and 2007, a reversal of this pattern coincided with the onset of recession in 2008. The countries with the highest suicide rate increases were those most affected by the recession, namely, Greece and Ireland. At the end of last year, the Taoiseach was...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the case that the policies of cuts and austerity which the Taoiseach is imposing are leading directly to the sense of despair and hopelessness felt among young people which is leading to this increase in suicide rates? Words about doing things and about youth unemployment are no good if the policies being pursued are leading directly to youth unemployment and despair among young people...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's policies are only helping the bondholders.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not doing a very good job.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That proves it.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will have young nurses demonstrating in the near future.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest that the concern expressed earlier by the Taoiseach for the young men and women of Ireland is belied by the grim reality facing young people in this country as a result of the austerity cuts and unemployment that are resulting from this Government's policies. This grim reality was revealed in the recently published report of the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland and the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do our young graduates and workers deserve to pay the price for the crimes of others and a crisis that is not their fault? Does the Taoiseach recognise that if young people are treated as second class citizens they will feel like second class citizens and therein lies the road to despair? What does the Taoiseach propose to do to give hope and a prospect of a future to our young people so...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Application Numbers (23 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of numbers of persons who applied for invalidity pension; numbers of those who were refused and those who were granted in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; of those who were refused the numbers who appealed the decision and the numbers who were successful and unsuccessful in those appeals. [3166/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the time scale?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I return to the issue of jobs and growth, which is the top priority in the strategy statement. The Taoiseach has reiterated that it should be the Government's priority. When I ask him these questions I am almost lulled by his dulcet tones and fervent optimism into feeling like a spoilsport in raining on the party-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of optimism he is promoting when it comes to jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I almost feel guilty, but then I go outside and suddenly I am snapped back into reality because the talent he mentioned, which is out there on the streets and which this country is full of - we agree on that point - is being utterly wasted. I am as aware as the Taoiseach that this is the country-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of great talent, great writers and authors. We have people with fantastic education, great ability and potential, but hundreds of thousands of those talents are being wasted and flooded out of the country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The question I ask the Taoiseach is as follows. Against that background, is it good enough to say that the Government's employment policies will lead to, as its projections suggest, no increase in the net level of employment by the end of this year-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and a reduction in unemployment of only 1 to 1.5 percentage points in the best-case scenario by 2015? That means that even in the best-case scenario-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the Government is presenting, we will have hundreds of thousands of people unemployed. Is that good enough to offer the talented people, who want to work and contribute to our society?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (22 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the Taoiseach said that.