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Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that the Ceann Comhairle has ruled amendment No.18 out of order. While we cannot move it, it is important that we record our deep concerns, shared by trade unions, about this section of the Bill. We referred briefly to it earlier, but the provision which allows agencies to employ people on a permanent contract and only pay them 50% of what they were paid on their last assignment...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems as if we are paying lip-service to the idea of equal treatment for agency workers but trying to exclude certain allowances and certain payments. I accept fully the Ceann Comhairle's decision to rule amendment No. 18 out of order, but it is for the same reason that we, as Deputy Clare Daly indicated, had to refer specifically to the private sector because if we sought equality for all...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he has made to intervene and save the life of Khadar Adnan, held in administrative detention in Israel for over 60 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9625/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a clothing allowance despite having been in receipt of this allowance for many years and also has been refused an orthopaedic bed despite it being recommended by their general practitioner. [9344/12]

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a result of the budget cuts in rent allowance, it is becoming apparent that sick, mentally ill and vulnerable persons who have been told to negotiate lower rents with their landlords are being refused such reductions or being threatened with homelessness, while fraudulent form filling is also an issue. This is widespread. A housing Bill proposed by the Government is supposed to deal with...

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should introduce rent controls.

Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is happening.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise to Deputy Joe Higgins.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it will be okay as long as we both get a chance.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My questions are related to whether there was any discussion at the Council meeting in January on the impact of the austerity programme on the potential for growth in the economy, on what it had done to the Greek economy and on what, according to all the mounting evidence, it was doing to the entire European economy. The Taoiseach may have seen an article by the economist Paul Krugman in...

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On suicide rates, it not a rant; they are factual.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was an amazing dodge of the questions I posed.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach accept what health professionals in Greece and Ireland are stating, namely, that austerity has led to a dramatic increase in suicide rates? Is the Taoiseach stating that there is no connection and that it is just a coincidence? Is he saying that a reduction of 12,000 in numbers in the community and voluntary sector, as a result of the cuts introduced by the Government,...

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a fact. The Minister should read the evidence in this regard in the ICTU's report. If she had attended the launch, she would already have seen the evidence to which I refer. What does the Taoiseach have to say with regard to the rate of child poverty here being ahead of that which obtains in Greece?

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have plenty of friends who-----

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was asking about the connection between austerity and suicide which is highlighted in the report to which I refer.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rich. It is the Government which is imposing the austerity. The Taoiseach must be kidding.

European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What has that to do with the European Council?

Human Rights Issues (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's strong words of condemnation of the appalling treatment by Israel of the people of Gaza. Frankly, it is difficult to understand how this State or other states in Europe continue to treat Israel as if it is a normal state when it does this type of thing, yet they impose sanctions on Iran and roundly condemn it. Did the Minister raise the matter of Khader Adnan on his...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own?