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Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What will it cost?

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The treaty states-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste is not answering the question.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has been made in recent days but again, on this last day, before the guillotine falls, it is absolutely wrong for the Government to impose this guillotine on such important legislation. Yesterday, we spent the best part of three hours debating one section of the Bill that deals with, in our opinion, the disgraceful cuts to lone parents.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We needed that much time to discuss that section alone and probably could have done with more. We still have an entire rake of sections to discuss that deal with important matters, such as the change in mortgage interest supplement that could cause real problems for mortgage holders in distress and the changes to jobseeker's benefit which will see part-time workers losing €20 or €30 a...

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Lone parents will not be getting those jobs.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Under the influence of austerity the European economy plunged back into crisis this week. The chorus of opposition to Angela Merkel's austerity treaty has increased, with unions and governments across Europe, including some of the Tánaiste's former comrades in the Irish trade union movement, have come out against the treaty on the basis that the austerity required would be disastrous. The...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- to €100 billion and one twentieth of that equates to €5 billion per year in cuts over 20 years in order to pay down the debt, on top of whatever cuts are necessary to meet the deficit targets.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are those figures correct and, if not, can the Tánaiste -----

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain her rationale for changing the jobseeker's payment from six a day a week to over a five day a week in view of the fact that it will act as a disincentive to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20628/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the recent review of those in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance, the number of children that have been left without this support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15128/12]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is being disingenuous.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was talking about the stigma that is applied as well the Minister knows.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not using it.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was being very disingenuous in her responses to the points raised by some of us on this side of the House. I was scratching my head trying to work out what was this terrible phrase that had been used with the very dishonest implication on the Minister's part that somehow I was using this terrible term and I could not quite figure out what it was. What I was referring to was a...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister might as well dream here as in bed if she thinks I will apologise to her. She must be joking. She should apologise-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a term-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. She asked me to apologise and I said she might as well dream here as in bed as ask me to apologise. I will not be apologising.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister should do, instead of throwing up smokescreens - by the way that term was a term used in America to stigmatise social welfare recipients-----