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Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order.

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order.

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why am I not entitled to a supplementary question?

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you explain why I am not entitled to ask a supplementary question?

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just sitting down.

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Tóibín very much. All I want to know is whether that is a commitment from the Minister that the Jane Norman workers will be paid the moneys owed to them and that the Minister is going to investigate the matter and ensure those workers receive the same justice that workers in La Senza and others are attempting to receive? Can I get a commitment that the Minister will...

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The company is trading again in the country.

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no moral, political or democratic justification for denying the citizens of this country or their counterparts across Europe a say in whether we should sign up to an arrangement, whereby permanent austerity will be imposed on them, society and the economy. The draft of the treaty in circulation makes it clear that such an arrangement is being contemplated. It refers to fiscal...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree this is not about forms of words, but rather about the brutal austerity that has been imposed on people in this country for the past three years which has led to a massacre of jobs, a massacre of our public services and attacks on the most vulnerable in our society to the point where many people are on their knees? All of that resulted from a decision by governments...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One can always point to this or that glimmer of light. We are all looking for such glimmers. However, the facts speak for themselves. It is not only the doom and gloom merchants - the Taoiseach describes us as such - who are criticising this approach. Christine Lagarde, someone very far away from me in terms of her viewpoint on economics and politics, is saying we are heading towards a...

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the workers who pay all the bills.

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the bondholders?

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should not take on liabilities, the creation of which the people had nothing to do with.

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The latest draft of the euro compact states that the austerity rules must be "of binding force and permanent character" and must be "guaranteed to be respected throughout the national budgetary processes". Permanent, binding austerity must be enforced by this Government or any future government. How can the Taoiseach say that that level of infringement on the right of democratically...

Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was delighted to receive a message on my phone this morning from Ms Louise Bayliss telling me of her reinstatement, just as I was utterly shocked and dismayed to receive a call from her last week saying she had been sacked for doing her job and advocating on behalf of patients. Her reinstatement is a victory for her courage and commitment to the cause of mental health patients in ensuring...

Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to bandy around terms in a sensitive area like mental health. It seems to me that moving patients from an open unit where they are happy in a community to a closed secure unit - at Christmas, of all times - essentially because of staffing shortages is not the best treatment possible for patients. The question of who is responsible for that is a separate one. Ms Louise Bayliss...

Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could be shifted to another Department.

Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not be the same management.

Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not be sure.

EU Council Meetings (24 Jan 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of unemployment during his discussions with EU leaders on the fiscal compact on 9 December 2011; his views that the fiscal compact adequately addresses the issue of jobs and employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2331/12]