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Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When laws are unjust, as people such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King understood very well-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----it is justified and legitimate to resist such unjust laws. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary working people and families in this country have been unable or unwilling to pay the household charge because they are crippled by austerity and understand the injustice of such a charge when multimillionaires are asked-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to pay only the same amount as people who are on social welfare or on low and middle incomes.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not address the substantial issue raised by the huge popular boycott of the household charge?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is now acknowledged by the IMF that ordinary people cannot and should not have to take any more pain of this unjust kind.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not accept that the household charge was wrong and that property charges that are levied on ordinary working people are unfair?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Instead, such taxes should be levied on high income earners-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----those earning more than €100,000 or on multimillionaires, not on working people who are already crucified with the austerity the Government and the previous Government have imposed on them.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the people.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even it understood that it was unfair.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about all the interest on the debt?

Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact that no hospital in the country met the nine hour accident and emergency waiting time target for admission or discharge, he is contemplating the closure of a number of A&E departments in smaller hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29396/12]

Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are still not getting clarification from the Minister, even though others and I have been asking for a long time about the fate of accident and emergency services in places such as Loughlinstown, Bantry, Mallow, Navan, Dundalk, Ennis, Portlaoise and Nenagh and whether they will be downgraded, as mooted, a move I would consider to be utterly unacceptable. Can we have clarity as to when...

Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is what has disempowered the front line not the fact that it has been massacred in terms of numbers? Some 5,000 nurses and midwives have been lost from the system. Some 2,000 have been lost in the past year and, as I said, 2,400 beds have been closed. The front-line workers and the INMO and other organisations are saying that is the problem the Minister needs to address. The target of six...

Accident and Emergency Services (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not untrue.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Minister agree with me that-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Minister agree with me that, when working people, people on social welfare, pensioners and some of the most vulnerable sectors of our society have been lashed with cuts, charges, levies and taxes for four years now, they would have been right to be outraged when they read in a Sunday newspaper last weekend that a Minister of the Government, Deputy Reilly, is claiming tax relief on...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister consider, when ordinary householders are being hammered with a grossly unjust household charge, when council tenants in my constituency and many other constituencies are living in dilapidated and substandard council homes and cannot get maintenance work done, it is wrong that a tax relief such as this for people with mansions to do maintenance on their homes is being...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I could ask several questions, actually.