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- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was my point of order.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The points have largely been made. However, I make one last appeal to the Tánaiste not to play the political games that he accuses us of playing when, in fact, he is playing them.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Government's decision to allocate 20 hours to the Savita Halappanavar debate.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was not asked for on this side of the House. It is now apparent that it was a cynical manoeuvre on the Government's part to truncate the time allowed to debate the budget and the Social Welfare Bill.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All we are asking for is for the Government to adjust the Order of Business to allow sufficient time to discuss the specific provisions included in this Bill and the amendments submitted by the Opposition in order that we have an opportunity to scrutinise all aspects of the Bill as we are supposed and obliged to do in the House. The Government is preventing us from doing this.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We wanted the Government to pass legislation on the matter.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier the Tánaiste rightly or wrongly ridiculed some of the Opposition for not fully scrutinising the supplementary health budget at the health committee, and I was not at the health committee, and now-----
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In his comments criticising the Opposition for the points they made, the Tánaiste said Deputies should do their job in scrutinising legislation and yet he is denying Deputies in this House the opportunity to scrutinise fully this legislation. That is as clear as day.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With the time the Tánaiste has allowed for the debate and the guillotine that will be imposed on it, we simply will not get to discuss some of the most substantive issues-----
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in this Bill that will affect the lives of struggling families, families affected by disability, children and women. That is an affront to democracy. It is an affront to the Tánaiste's promises for a new type of politics. It gives an opportunity, as we saw last night, for the Minister to filibuster on less important issues, to talk down the clock in order that we do not get to...
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----wryly all he likes, the truth is-----
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----from the moment the Government imposed the guillotine on the debate it became impossible to have a serious debate on the amendments that have been put forward-----
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which could obviate the need to impose these brutal cuts.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have proposed alternative PRSI measures, fair measures, which would take the burden off people on low and middle incomes, off the unemployed and so on.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tánaiste to lift the guillotine on the debate and allow it to take place.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Ask the troika can we have time for the debate.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the budget overruns and the extra cuts required as a result a few months ago. They included very significant cuts to home help hours and to the provision for personal assistants for those with disabilities. We do not know the details of further cuts amounting to €780 million due to be made as part of the budget. The Government has put a spin on the fact that extra money is...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A guillotine is also being applied in respect of that legislation.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have tabled amendments.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All of the political point-scoring - the jibes about Fianna Fáil, about what happens in the North and about the Labour Party - has to be set aside at this juncture, frankly. Notwithstanding the ideological differences we might have or where we might stand on the left-wing spectrum, I appeal to the Labour Party Deputies to think hard about what they will do tonight and tomorrow. If...