Results 24,621-24,640 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, in America and well the Minister knows it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, big deal, you have not heard it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is she being allowed make political points?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am dealing with the subject matter. Why did the Acting Chairman not pull her up for speaking out of turn?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Acting Chairman addressing me or the Minister?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are you looking at me instead of looking at the Minister?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She was interrupting me when I was making my contribution.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I do not. I was wondering why you allowed the Minister to interrupt me.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not be apologising to you or to this House but I would-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is going on here?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am beginning to wonder what is going on here.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will address the Chair in my own way.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister should apologise for launching this vindictive, socially regressive attack on lone parents, which is coupled with the vindictive and socially regressive attacks on lone parents launched in the last budget and which will do nothing but punish a section of our society that is already suffering disproportionately from poverty but which is struggling. It is a section of our...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the points have been made but like other Deputies, I believe the Minister should delete this section. When one looks at the combination of measures in the budget which were directed at lone parents, one would have to conclude that, in a quite malicious way, lone parents were attacked with the deliberate intention of driving them out of the workforce or that these measures were based...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not flat taxes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What did I say?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is under the existing scheme.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The more one looks at this, the more one realises how unacceptable it is that this debate is being limited in the way it has been and that these amendments have come forward so late leaving us with so little time to consider them and put forward further proposals. We are dealing with a serious issue that affects a growing and vulnerable group of people who find themselves with mortgage...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We agree with that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it be backdated?