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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.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not another example of how there is one law for the rich in this country and one law for the poor? Does the Minister consider it appropriate that a Minister should benefit from such a tax relief-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and that such tax reliefs should exist for some of the wealthiest people in our society, when ordinary working people are being crucified with austerity measures to pay off bankers and bondholders?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, why are they allowed continually to interrupt when I am speaking?

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all in favour of protecting heritage and it is entirely legitimate to give support to people when they are not in a position to maintain heritage homes or any dwelling which has a heritage value. The Minister is right to say there are Georgian homes and so on in Dún Laoghaire and elsewhere where it is reasonable to give financial support or tax breaks to people who are not in a...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and that multimillionaires gain these tax reliefs.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not part of an architecture of tax reliefs that, as the latest revenue figures indicate, the 11,000 highest earners in this country pay an effective tax rate of only 29%? This is simply a way of protecting the rich from taxes, while ordinary working people are being crucified with levies, charges and cuts. Does the Minister think it is appropriate that a Minister should benefit from...