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- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The more one listens to this debate, the more one realises that it would not be a three-way problem if we just nationalised the banks we have recapitalised. We could then square the circle properly and force the banks, as they should be forced, to engage reasonably and fairly with people who are in mortgage difficulties primarily because of the banks' activities. However, the previous...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Right. Therefore, in order to receive the supplement one must engage with the bank and be in an arrangement for 12 months before accessing the mortgage interest supplement. Will the interest that has built up in that 12-month period be paid and backdated? The borrower will lose out unless there is some obligation on the bank, as a result of this legislative change, to write off interest...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These two amendments, relating to jobseeker's benefit and mortgage interest supplement, deal with two groups of people who have been hammered by the current recession - low-paid workers and people with mortgage difficulties. I am concerned that amendments are introduced at the last minute and we have not had enough time to consider the possible ramifications. We do not have sufficient time...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about jobseeker's benefit?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: From where is the Minister reading this?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just like you did before the last election.
- Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is paying for the website?
- Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to proceed with the planned sale of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20292/12]
- Written Answers — Global Economic Forum: Global Economic Forum (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the persons who will be invited to the next Global Economic Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20478/12]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of persons in receipt of the domiciliary carer's allowance; the way same compares to 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20627/12]
- Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to act on the findings of the Mahon Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/12]
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Committee (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I too reject this motion and the Bill. I wish to correct the record of the House. The Taoiseach said earlier today that the House would have ten hours of debate on Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill but that is not correct because we had four hours' debate and at the last moment we are presented with a whole raft of amendments which substantially change the Bill and make...
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps our Whip can also speak-----
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With respect, this is an issue to do with-----
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there no way I can have a substitute?
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said earlier and as others have said, this is effectively a new Bill. The idea that we are talking about a new Bill dealing with important matters for citizens of this country and for some of the most vulnerable sectors of society, which have been hit hard with austerity and cuts-----
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They include lone parents, part-time workers and others dependent on social welfare. It is wrong that what is effectively a new Bill should receive less than one hour of discussion. It raises the question of what the Government and the Minister were doing when an extension of what the Bill is dealing with comes in at the last minute. It flies in the face of any commitment to serious...
- Estimates for Public Services 2012: Messages from Select Committees (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to be fair, democratic and reasonable. It is not right that one third of the Opposition is disenfranchised from discussing this changed Bill.
- EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his meeting with Ajai Chopra, the European deputy director of the IMF, the ECB's chief economist Klaus Masuch and Istvan Szekely of the European Commission on 17 April 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20293/12]