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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]

EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said he discussed the macroeconomic outlook with the troika. The discussions are continuing until Thursday. Is there any recognition on the part of the troika, given the deteriorating economic situation in Europe, the fact that this is the third quarter in a row with economic contraction across Europe and there has been a return of the debt crisis, that its austerity agenda is...

EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can only comment that as the austerity agenda is rolled out across the rest of Europe, it is becoming increasingly clear that the damage done to the peripheral countries is now spreading to the core and is completely depressing the European economy in all parts. It is disappointing if there is not some discussion about the implications. I specifically asked the Minister whether cuts...

EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last round.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a dozen such cases on my desk.

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As was mentioned earlier, today outside the Dáil the parents of special needs children who have had domiciliary care allowances cut were protesting as were lone parents who are threatened with a cut in the one parent family payment when their children reach the age of seven and who believe it will drive them out of work. More generally, these protests are part of a growing revolt throughout...

Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am traumatised by them.