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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (20 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent revelations regarding the numbers of students waiting for grants to be processed, the measures he will put in place to ensure that students are not forced out of third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51331/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the provision of special needs resources in primary schools; his plans to maintain such resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51332/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the process of collating data for the first 12 months of the operation of TÚS; and when the verification of data will be completed and the precise figures released. [51359/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the process of collating data for the first 12 months of the operation of TÚS; and when the verification of data will be completed and the precise figures released.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He will not tell us what we want to know.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to press the Tánaiste in respect of legislation that has been promised for the 20 years since the judgment was handed down in the X case. He indicated that the response of the Government is conditional on the report to which he referred.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a speech, I am posing a very straightforward question.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In view of the tragic circumstances relating to this case, is the Tánaiste in a position to indicate when the Government proposes to publish the report? Why can the report not be published today-----

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in order that the public and Members on all sides of the House would be in a position to consider it-----

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----before the Government has time to put its own spin on it? The Government should open up the books and everybody should have a chance to look at them.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a question.

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the report be published?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble and the issues that were raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48417/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the effective corporate tax rate to 12.5% and increasing the nominal corporate tax rate to 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50525/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Death of Ms Savita Halappanavar (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the terrible circumstances surrounding the death of Savita, the Minister's response is grossly inadequate and utterly fails to acknowledge his responsibility and the responsibility of the Government to act to ensure there could be no question of a woman's life being threatened because she could not receive the medical treatment she needed because of the current legal situation in this...

Topical Issue Debate: Death of Ms Savita Halappanavar (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is truly incredible that it is 20 years since the terrible and tragic circumstances of the X case, which led to an enormous public outcry about the Supreme Court judgment and to referendums that concluded that abortion must be allowed where there is a threat to the life of the mother. Twenty years on, after nothing but political cowardice and dithering, we have been led to a situation in...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish League of Credit Unions which represents 3 million members asked specifically in its submission on this legislation that there be no attempt to foreclose debate on the Credit Union Bill in the House. It has expressed extreme concern about the potential damage that may be done to the fundamental, voluntary and democratic ethos of credit unions. It is also deeply concerned that the...

Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what has been proposed on the Order of Business.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean the guillotine will be lifted?

Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.