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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub Committee on Health will next meet. [39030/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Economic Management Council will take place. [40450/12]

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Taoiseach square the Government's commitment to provide home care services to people with its decision to cut more than 1 million hours of home help in a single year?

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can he square the respect he has expressed for home helps with the outsourcing of home care services to a multinational company that wants to pay home helps by the minute? Does he think somebody who is paid by the minute - who has to clock in according to the minute and has to leave after exactly 15 or 30 minutes - will give the sort of service that is required to the elderly or disabled...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. All of that is going to change.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is welcome to meet the home helps in the Earl of Kildare Hotel, where they are meeting this evening. Members of the press have been invited as well.

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about the Government's priorities and its notion of reform when it comes to the health service and about a particular area of our health service. In the Visitors Gallery today are approximately from 50 to 60 home help assistants who provide vital services of care, support and backup to elderly and disabled citizens across the country, some of the most vulnerable sectors of...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That multinational, for example, had to pay fines in compensation to New York City for overcharging the city for food and facilities management services. This is the sort of company it is. The Government is outsourcing home help services to that company, degrading services here and cutting services to the most vulnerable sectors of society and attacking the pay and conditions of home help...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Instead of attacking them, why does the Government not go after the consultants who are doing private work in public hospitals or why does it not go after the multinational companies that are overcharging the HSE for drugs?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with Iascairí Intíre na hÉireann, a fishermen's organisation representing inshore fishermen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40445/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans regarding the lobster stock numbers; his plans to provide for access to stock in a limited and sustainable way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40444/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax that hospital consultants with private practices paid on their total income in 2011 and the effective tax rate. [40157/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will grant a person (details supplied) whose Stamp 4 expired on 3 September, a temporary stamp pending the outcome of their application to renew it in order that they can return to their job; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40323/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the earnings of all hospital consultants who engage in private practice. [40158/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants that engage in private practice [40156/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants' Remuneration (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid in consultants' fees by private health insurers annually; and the amount additionally paid to them by persons [40155/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not for bondholders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ms Gilleece appears to share that view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Ms Gilleece would also elaborate on what difficulties she foresees for credit unions as a result of the introduction of the personal insolvency legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Credit Union Bill 2012: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise for missing the first of them, but I had another meeting to attend. I am fresh to this matter. Hearing the different perspectives of those involved in the credit union movement has been illuminating. However, I am curious about how sharply the witnesses' perspectives on the more controversial issues differ from those of the Irish...