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Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in terms of them being able to serve on the boards of corporations where there is a conflict of interest. That is a practice that continues where people walk out of very senior jobs in Government and the public service and go straight on to the boards of big business, which often they have been dealing with directly in particular areas only weeks or months previously.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot deal with the issue of political corruption unless we deal with the gross inequalities in wealth. As long as 5% of the population have 40% of the wealth they will always corrupt politics. Anyone who is serious about dealing with the corruption in politics must deal with the gross inequalities in wealth, and that means imposing taxes on the super wealthy in our society whom both...

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, will you tell the Fianna Fáil Members to be quiet?

Public Service Reform (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The centrepiece of the announcement today is a significant increase in the number of workers who will be taken out of the public service. Is a serious analysis being done of the value for money of this measure in a context where agency or contract staff are often taking up the slack in the public service, Civil Service and local government? I have a later question the answer to which I have...

Public Service Reform (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. The Minister should increase them.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has carried out or intends to carry out a cost benefit analysis of the use of agency staff and private contractors who provide services in the different Departments of the public sector or who are engaged for major State capital projects, and which includes a comparative analysis of the cost of those same services by...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services; the numbers of staff they provide and to break these details on a Department by Department basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35198/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services; the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35796/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services; the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35795/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the names of agencies that provide staff for the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services; the number of staff they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35794/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services; the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35793/11]

Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill is inadequate to deal with the problem that it attempts to address. It is fundamentally dictated more by free market ideology, and the addiction of the troika to that free market ideology, than it is by any serious attempt to grapple with our real problems with health care provision in Ireland. This Bill is essentially trying to create a free market in GP services, with the...

Review of Serious Incidents including Deaths of Children in Care: Statements (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the fact that we are having this debate. I commend the national review panel on completing this report and on examining this most serious of issues. While I have some points to make which challenge or criticise the Government's action in respect of child protection, I have no doubt about the Minister's commitment to it. In her speech, the Minister was frank in stating she is...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list including dates of all planned reviews of special needs assistants for schools before the end of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34845/11]

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give a commitment that he will not raise the third level student contribution in budget 2012 or cut the maintenance grant for third level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34844/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break these details into tabular form. [35717/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for all Departments of the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break these details on a department by department basis in tabular form. [35206/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the names of agencies that provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the number of staff they provide; and if he will break these details into tabular form. [35716/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of these services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break down these details into tabular form. [35715/11]

Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan on putting forward this motion. This could not be a bigger issue. One quarter of the population are affected at some time by mental health issues. We have all been touched by it. I have been touched by the impact of it as have people close to me. Let us consider the link, although not inevitable, to depression and alcohol-related abuse, both of which...