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Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I am pleased that the Government and Deputies on all sides of the House have made it clear in recent weeks and months that there is an urgent need to do something about this issue. In light of the horrific revelations that have emanated from the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne reports in recent years - and most recently the report on the...

Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am well aware of that but the problem is we also have more children than at any time in the history of the State. There are 10,000 extra children entering the primary school system every year. In absolute terms, the question is not about how many SNAs we have; it is about the ratio of SNAs to the number of children in the education system, specifically to the number of children with...

Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could start by not paying the-----

Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could get ten special needs assistants from the salary of the head of the VHI.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, the bondholders must love us; Angela Merkel must absolutely adore the Taoiseach at this stage.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is our reputation with those people more important than the future of vulnerable citizens and children and ordinary people in this country who are being crucified with the cuts that are having to be made in order to repay these speculators-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and bondholders?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of priorities are those?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are working very hard.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ruthless is the right word.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not guarantee the bonds.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ceann Comhairle, please.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I raised with the Tánaiste the deepening crisis as a result of cuts in the rent allowance, which has seen more families being made homeless or threatened with homelessness. In that context, when will we discuss the housing Bill on the legislative programme? Despite asking several times, we have been given no specific timeline for when that Bill will be discussed. Given the...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----can the Taoiseach say when the Bill will be introduced? Can he accelerate the process so we get a chance to discuss this most serious issue?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach rightly suggested, Fianna Fáil bankrupted this country by providing a blanket guarantee to bankers and bondholders-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----yet the Taoiseach's Government has continued this disastrous policy at a terrible cost to ordinary citizens who have lost their jobs and seen their incomes and services butchered. The Taoiseach has extended that policy by continuing to pay off unsecured and unguaranteed bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet no matter how much the Taoiseach grovels to the troika and to Angela Merkel she snubs her nose at us and insists that we take more pain and now she wants to do the same to Spain and Italy. Yet against this background this week the Taoiseach's Government is in the process of paying over €1 billion to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide bondholders. Is not the equation in terms of...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while somewhere in rural Ireland-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----a community fears for the future of their school, or the parents of children with intellectual disabilities-----