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Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Legislation will be brought forward to secure the sale of those State assets.

Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done so several times.

Written Answers — Wage-Setting Mechanisms: Wage-Setting Mechanisms (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will give any assurances to low-paid workers covered by the JLC/REA system before the summer recess that their incomes and conditions will not be reduced as a consequence of the legislation that he is preparing in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21133/11]

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To repeat the call made, the situation is getting worse all the time. Given the gravity of the circumstances surrounding this Council meeting, the Taoiseach owes it to the Dáil and the public to give us some opportunity to discuss the matter this week, either before or after the summit.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we break for the summer, I am sure the Taoiseach is aware that for the 450,000 people or so who have no jobs, this will be a difficult summer. In terms of forthcoming legislation dealing with matters such as the strategic investment bank and the McCarthy report on State assets and, more generally, job creation, will the Taoiseach indicate that as soon as we return in the autumn there will...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean Members can have that in September?

Alternative Energy Projects (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Minister of State to consider a fiscally neutral proposal put to me by someone from Bettystown in County Meath, and it relates to the retrofit scheme. The proposal is that we introduce a loan scheme to cover the cost of insulating people's houses.

Job Creation (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With which question is Question No. 27 being taken?

Job Creation (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Durkan cannot have three of them.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Minister insulting these people?

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers only get two weeks off in the summer.

EU Summits (19 Jul 2011)

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

Written Answers — Employment of Agency Staff: Employment of Agency Staff (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agency staff employed in the public sector; the agencies being used; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20372/11]

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which would mean resisting the EU and IMF austerity programme, then our public finances would be in a much better state by approximately €7 billion. Add to that the €5 billion we must pay in interest repayments this year and a little tax on the wealthy in the country and one could make up the deficit without imposing austerity.

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a genuine question.

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are paying through cuts in social welfare.

Public Service Staff (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise because I must leave in a minute to go to a housing meeting, which relates to my question about-----

Public Service Staff (14 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will mention you, a Cheann Comhairle. It is in The Graduate. The meeting is about the fact that no social housing will be built directly and we are going to start leasing in Dún Laoghaire from private landlords.