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Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on the US and British governments to cease all arms sales to the regime in Bahrain which include CS gas and rubber coated bullets that are being used against protesters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30734/12]

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That means Providence will not get the licence in September, does it?

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, a foreshore licence.

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources his views on implementing the recommendations from the recent Joint Oireachtas Committee with regards to increasing the tax take from oil and gas finds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30694/12]

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the publication of this report, which was commissioned to respond to the belief that there is widespread concern about the current taxation and licensing arrangements for gas and oil. I certainly believe that when gas and oil are discovered and go into production, the people of this country get next to nothing from it, in effect. In that context, the production of this report by...

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the figures I have from the Numis Securities research department report, France had a take of just under 50%, not 35%. I do not know how to explain the divergence between my figures and those of the Minister. There is a very interesting graph of the tax takes of various countries that shows us at the absolute bottom, with by far the lowest amount of tax take for our citizens of...

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues: Statements (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Murphy for proposing the debate, which is very much welcome, as this is an important subject on which we should make our voice heard. I strongly welcome the Minister's commitment to uphold a proud tradition in this country of opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and playing an important international role in seeking to prevent the proliferation of such weapons and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an unsatisfactory and disingenuous response. We will continue to subsidise private landlords unless the State directly provides council housing. If there are 230,000 empty dwellings, many of them in the hands of NAMA and State-financed banks, they should be transferred directly into council ownership, but that is not what the Government is doing. Instead, it is continuing to pay...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or through the direct provision of council houses to end the abomination whereby 96,000 people are on the housing list at a time when we have nearly a quarter of a million empty properties in the State? It is an obscenity.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should just take the properties into public ownership.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those people who are facing homelessness will be in Buswells Hotel if the Tánaiste wishes to meet them.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to get them housed.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the best ways to protect the children of the State is to provide them with secure housing. In the Visitors Gallery is a small sample of the 96,000 families on housing waiting lists. They are the victims of housing cuts and policies imposed by Labour Party Ministers. Leanne Massey who has four children was recently made homeless because of rent allowance cuts. She is now separated...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reopen closed hospital beds in view of the fact that there are 35,000 people waiting longer than 12 months to be seen, in view of the fact that the recommended European standard is six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29397/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Health the expected date of publication of the smaller hospitals report.. [29404/12]

Written Answers — Register of Members' Interests: Register of Members' Interests (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 636: To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify any interests he has in private nursing homes in general and in The Greenhills Nursing Home, County Tipperary in particular.. [29405/12]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Taoiseach was not suggesting applicants for domiciliary care allowance were making fraudulent claims.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That would be an outrageous thing to suggest. Since the Government introduced the hated and unjust household charge, there has been an unprecedented campaign of mass boycott and resistance to this attempt to impose further unjust austerity on ordinary people. Last week even the IMF had to acknowledge the scale of the popular campaign of opposition to the hated household charge and suggest...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 18 July, the last sitting day of the Dáil before the summer recess, a national demonstration called for by the campaign against household and water charges will take place at Leinster House. Why does the Taoiseach not save thousands of ordinary people the trouble of buying bus and train tickets to Dublin on that date by telling them he is abandoning the household charge or any property...