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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. Is the Minister-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----specifically targeting single mothers? Can the Minister respond and-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----explain how she can honestly claim-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----she wishes to encourage lone parents to return to work when she is removing precisely those supports that allow them to so do?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle knows I understand.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a serious issue and the Tánaiste knows it. People are reeling with shock; lone parents, low income families and the elderly are reeling from the attacks meted out in this Bill. The very least they deserve is that the full implications of the attacks on their living standings are explained, particularly the Government's commitment to labour activation measures designed to get people...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will drive lone parents out of work and back into poverty. These serious implications deserve to be discussed in detail and not rammed through in this way by a Government that promised a new type of politics and a new type of openness and transparency. These austerity measures are being rammed through in an unfair and undemocratic way.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be 1,000 people outside the gates of Dáil Éireann appealing for a proper debate and a reversal of these cuts. Will the Tánaiste at least allow for a proper discussion?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is nonsense.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for lone parents. The money is being taken from lone parents.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should read the expenditure cuts outlined by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. He has obviously not read them.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister hit out at people with disabilities, the fuel allowance, rent supplement, footwear, clothing and back to education allowances, child benefit, hearing aid grants and lone parent support. It is absolutely clear that when talking about protecting the vulnerable, the Minister has done the exact opposite. She has hit every definition of vulnerable group, the disabled, the elderly,...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the wealthy.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the pressure exerted outside the tent that brought about the change.

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government would want to wear some trousers.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But the Minister has cut them.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This will make it worse.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will drive single mums out of work.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we do not, we are banjaxed. Did the Minister see the growth projections?