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Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, can another Member come in on Priority Questions?

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies. I am slightly worried by the Minister's answer. In so far as job losses are taking place in these areas, I and many reasonable people would argue it is the lack of demand in the economy that results in people's incomes being slashed. What I and the workers in this sector are looking for is an assurance that while there may be anomalies, and the unions and so on involved...

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to allow us have a proper debate?

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Levelling up or down?

Written Answers — Colleges Recognition: Colleges Recognition (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procurement procedures followed in the granting of ministerial approval to a college (details supplied) to operate in the field of primary teacher education; the reason this college has no cap on teacher training places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9892/11]

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The essential and big question everybody in the country is asking is, "Where is the bailout for the people?" There is a bailout for the bankers to the tune of over €100 billion but ordinary people who sought to do nothing more than put a roof over their heads – an entirely legitimate aspiration – are threatened with losing their homes and battered with unsustainable interest payments...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Government gave us the time we would do it.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a cheap political point but given that we are discussing the issue that will dictate and dominate our economic future for many years into the future I am amazed that so few Members have bothered to attend this debate. The emphasis put by the Government parties in advance of the election was on how this was such a bad deal for Ireland and a bad deal for Europe, that it had to...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis was caused by bankers and the deficit problem was caused by the fact that we lowered taxes on the rich in this country to unsustainable levels. The answer, therefore, is to make the bankers pay for the crisis they caused and to put taxes on the wealthy rather than the vulnerable and working people in this country. It can be done if there was a will to do it but there is no will...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not these Independents.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a completely different group.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was nothing to do with us. We were calling for nationalisation.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have such a debate.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have.

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of parents of children with special needs are in the Gallery today. Can the Minister give them any hope? Some of their children have very severe special needs requirements. One child, Aisling McEniff's five year old son, is unique in the world. He has been in intensive care eight times and has had two heart operations. He has Down's syndrome and-----

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has been approved for a special education place but because there is no sanction for another SNA, her child cannot get into school. Can the Minister offer them any hope or is he telling them there is no hope because we have to pay off the IMF?

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are needed.

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children, that have been recommended by the National Educational Psychological Services, that are being denied access to resource hours due to the current review being carried out under the Employment Control Framework for Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9893/11]

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister wrote to schools in March and instructed them to stop allocating resource hours to pupils on foot of the review of the numbers employed in the area of education which was demanded by the IMF. This means that children who have been lucky enough to receive assessments from NEPS and who are obliged to wait months for such assessments will not now get what they are due. The stress...