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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...

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?