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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would go further on pensions.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should let me finish. He had his chance and he will get his chance again.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have argued for an earnings figure of â¬100,000 for five years.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, we should not mix up this figure with appropriate pension limits. The pension of a public sector worker earning â¬100,000 will be approximately â¬50,000. I propose no more than â¬50,000 for pensioners. Is that not enough for the Minister or for the heads of the semi-State companies or top civil servants? It is extraordinary that we do not have emergency measures to get back...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am keen for someone to explain and justify that. However, this speaks to the bigger issue. It is not simply about the pensions and pay of public servants but the lack of willingness of the Government to take emergency measures to go after the wealthy. Where is the wealth tax? Earlier, I referred to a sum of â¬131 billion owned by 1% of the population. If we include the top 5% then...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, not on farm land.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our proposal is simple and does not relate to private residences, it is limited to assets worth more than â¬1 million and not to farm assets worth less than â¬5 million. As I pointed out to the Minister, the financial assets make up approximately one half of the figure of â¬131 billion to which I referred and the figure is rising. These assets have risen significantly in recent years....
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the opportunity also to express my sympathies on the Taoiseach's family loss. Does it give the Taoiseach any pause for thought in implementing the policies of austerity dictated by the troika, given the massive mobilisation that will take place in the North of Ireland tomorrow which will see 80,000 to 100,000 public sector workers come out against attempts to essentially cut their pay...
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the proximity of these events make the Taoiseach pause for thought in that we are pursuing the same policies here and imposing the same unfairness on public sector workers, other workers and vulnerable sectors of society?
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Was that discussed at the Ministerial Council meeting? I would also like to ask about the Aughnacloy to Derry upgrade. It is lamentable that the State is pulling back from these infrastructural projects. Given that there is some level of commitment to continue with this project, can the Taoiseach investigate suggestions made by some of our party colleagues in Derry that there are serious...
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are we discussing the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill?
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I wish to comment on.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is part of the proposal. Is that correct?
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the second or third proposal?
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think they know that by now but I appreciate the point. It is completely unacceptable to impose a guillotine on this Bill. The financial emergency measures are taken in the context of the current economic crisis that we are facing. We all agree that emergency measures are necessary but one must have time to debate them. People throughout the House will have ideas about what is in the...
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It could relate to other measures.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are other matters.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister be making the statement in the House?
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will reverse the cut to the grant for a theatre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36620/11]
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On legislation the Government intends to introduce next week, it is bad enough that it intends to impose a regressive stealth tax on the most basic items human beings need to survive, namely, housing and water-----