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Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a fact that we are facing an unemployment catastrophe and that, since the Government entered into office, there has not been the slightest improvement in this disastrous situation, given that more than 14% of people are unemployed? Is it not the truth that the only reason we are not facing a far worse unemployment situation is because tens of thousands of people have been forced to...

Employment Levels (27 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no prospect of the Government making a dent in the unemployment situation while it continues on its current policy path.

Child Welfare Services (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection teams that are short of staff as a result of the moratorium on recruitment; the number of children at risk because of these staff shortages; her views on whether the number of those recorded as being at risk on the risk registers are an accurate reflection of the situation; and if she will make a...

Child Welfare Services (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister acknowledged, my original question was related not only to child protection teams, I also asked about child mental health teams, early intervention teams and disability teams, as well as the staff shortages in these areas. It is not acceptable for the Minister to say, in a bureaucratic way, that they are within the remit of another Minister. She is Minister for Children and...

Child Welfare Services (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In so far as there is any progress, I welcome it. Surely the whole point of the Ministry becoming a senior one is that it must have an overview of child protection. In a certain sense the Minister should not respect ministerial demarcations because otherwise one could ask what is the point. Talk of €16 million for priority cases and front-line services does not address the point that is...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste suggested the Government has secured a deal on the promissory note that will give some relief to people. Some of us believe this is a trick of the eye to ram through the fiscal treaty and that the Government is again conspiring with European Union leaders to deceive people and have the treaty passed. Will the Tánaiste disprove this theory by showing some urgency on the...

Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the legislation be introduced? Will the Government reverse this austerity measure which means people do not even have a roof over their heads?

Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That shows the Government's urgency in the matter.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Ross, Fleming, Wallace and Joan Collins. The Government's dishonesty in its attempt to deceive people on the issue of our debt burden and the fiscal treaty is really staggering. We know the Government conspired with EU leaders to try to avoid the referendum on the fiscal treaty. That was confirmed to us by the German European affairs minister. When the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy should shut up and allow Deputy Higgins to conclude.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Tánaiste's people in the former Soviet Union?

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not doing a good job in that regard.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should tell that to the pensioners who are freezing in their homes.

Written Answers — Ownership of Coillte Lands: Ownership of Coillte Lands (21 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the sense in which the State will retain ownership over Coillte lands if the company is sold and a private commercial entity has control of the enterprise and if, for example, under such an agreement it might be open to a private company to restrict public access to forest amenity areas or charge for...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it has not.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People will be obliged to pay out even more money when that tax comes into being.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Until next January.

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was privatised by Fine Gael and Labour Party councillors.

Leaders' Questions (15 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the opposite of what the Tánaiste wanted in the 1980s with water charges.