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European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the agenda for the forthcoming European Council meeting on 23 October 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27357/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the next European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27358/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will hold a bilateral meeting with the Greek Prime Minister at the forthcoming European Council meeting on 23 October 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27359/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr José Manuel Barroso in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29881/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Taoiseach if Mr José Manuel Barrose indicated the need to change the European treaties in relation to economic governance; if a referendum on these changes may be necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29882/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the decision by European Council President, Mr Herman Van Rompuy, to postpone the EU summit on the debt crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29883/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach not going to tell our European partners that their strategy for dealing with the financial and economic crisis is in absolute tatters and that it is a disaster which is strangling economic growth as well as causing great suffering for people throughout Europe? Even on its own terms it is strangling economic growth and threatens to tip the European economy into recession. No...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have done what the Greeks did and resisted austerity because that way we might have got to burn the bondholders and we might have got the money without inflicting the brutal austerity the Taoiseach has been so enthusiastic to inflict.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The facts are coming in.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our debt is larger in proportionate terms.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They get to burn the bondholders; we do not. They stood up for themselves.

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she will ensure there will be adequate heating for the elderly and vulnerable in view of the cuts to the fuel allowance and the household benefits package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29130/11]

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the cuts to the fuel allowance the Minister is proposing and the cuts she has already indicated to the household benefits package are the sharp edge of an obscene attack on the most vulnerable sectors of our society and that despite soothing words about covering the cost of electricity and gas price increases the reality of these cuts is a matter of life and death for...

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can that be justified when Ministers are earning €140,000 a year, gas company executives are earning €400,000 a year and ESB executives are earning €650,00 a year when we are talking about equality of pain? None of them will die because of any increased taxes but elderly people may die as a result of these cuts.

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I urge the Minister to reverse these cuts and any thought of imposing cuts on fuel allowance.

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on.

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Minister use the work of community welfare officers as a smokescreen for the substantial question that is being asked of her? If we have already had 2,000 winter related deaths, is it because the funds to procure fuel and electricity to provide warmth for elderly and vulnerable citizens are inadequate? Many of them would not have the confidence, knowledge or ability to contact a...

Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with that idea but it does not justify the cuts.

Back to Education Allowance (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have had a lot of calls about this. A simple criterion should apply; if someone wants to go back to education or to further their education, he should not be put in a position where he must stay on the dole for another six months before qualifying. It is an extraordinary situation. One young woman approached me recently. She decided not to sign on after having been away because she did...