Results 26,361-26,380 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Pension Provisions (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the Minister is trying to put a positive spin on what is an outrageous diktat from the IMF-EU to force working people in this country to work longer, harder and for less? Given that working class people, poor people, live shorter lives, this will disproportionately hit them and essentially work some people to death when they should have a few years to enjoy a...
- Pension Provisions (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not really answer the questions. Is it not the case that if we had a referendum on raising the State pension age, some would be in favour of it, as in Slovenia where 20% or so were in favour of it, and some would be against it, as in Slovenia where 72% were against it? Is it also not the case that if we had a referendum and people had a democratic say, we would get a...
- Pension Provisions (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be voluntary.
- Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The wealthy members of the global diaspora will yet again be feted in this country. We constantly talk about the global diaspora and how important it is, but in the case of these two people this is just contempt through the implementation of the habitual residence condition as it is applied to a less well-off Irish citizen, the male in this case. We are talking about an Irish citizen.
- Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Minister to examine this case. The man concerned is an Irish citizen. His family is from Clonegal and most of his family live there. His mother is returning from England. He happened to be born in England but has severed all ties with Britain, at the request of the social welfare authorities here. He has nothing to return to and all his family are in this country. He and...
- Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In England.
- Social Welfare Benefits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask a supplementary question.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The context for these questions is obvious. It is, as we approach the end of the Government's first 100 days in office, the objectives and hopes the Government had to deal with the most important issue facing the country, the EU-IMF deal. Is it not time to acknowledge that the strategy pursued by the Government in terms of seeking to ease the burden of this brutal deal has failed...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the question is about.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not need to learn from the Greeks in particular and from the other so-called PIGS countries that have taken a different approach? We should be talking to them about how, as a result of their resistance to the EU-IMF deal and particularly the resistance of the people of those countries, the German Finance Minister is now talking openly, in the context of the Greek situation, about...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach recognise the effectiveness of the Greek resistance to this package and how it is forcing a debate among the EU authorities about burning the bondholders? It is what we all know must be done to relieve the ordinary people of this country. Should we not meet with the Greeks, the Portuguese and the Spanish to discuss that and recognise that we stand or fall together and we...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not trying to score political points.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question and the question is about appealing to the Taoiseach to consider changing strategy-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All of the questions request the Taoiseach-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for a particular purpose.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a statement.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a logical connection in the questions I am asking. We should specifically meet other countries in the same plight as we are-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking him-----