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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 545: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children on the waiting list for speech and language therapists by area and the average waiting time for same. [9895/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 546: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists currently in the system and the way this compares with numbers prior to the previous Government's moratorium on recruitment. [9896/11]

Euro Plus Pact (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the pact for the Euro agreed at the recent meeting of EU heads of State; the implications for member States in terms of their ability to decide their own economic policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6645/11]

Euro Plus Pact (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has rightly and justifiably criticised the previous Government for its policy failures and actions which contributed to the property bubble and crash, the banking crisis and so on. However, while the Government may be able to excuse itself from what the previous Government did, it is signing up to a pact which will be as destructive of our democratic right to control our...

Euro Plus Pact (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I supported the revolution that led to the overthrow of the dictatorships in eastern Europe and support the democratic revolutions in the Arab world. It is precisely because of my commitment to democracy that I am worried about the pact for the euro, on which the Minister has not responded. This is not about his view of my ideological position but about whether there is a recognition on his...

Euro Plus Pact (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was competitiveness not responsible for the banking crisis?

Euro Plus Pact (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People's wages.

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to press the Taoiseach on whether there will be a debate-----

Order of Business (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has a debate been promised on the health service, given the long overdue decision of the Minister to get rid of the HSE board which has made such a mess of the health service? Following that decision and the news a few days later that waiting lists were increasing again, will there be a debate on the escalating crisis in the health service?

Departmental Officials' Remuneration (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Only the socialists called it right.

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the context of the questions posed by Deputy Higgins, I will be interested in hearing the Taoiseach's comments on workers and service users. Will the proposals regarding reform of the process relating to appointments to State boards extend to dealing with the outrageous salaries paid to executives on such boards? These individuals are being paid hundreds of thousands of euro at a time...

Appointments to State Boards (3 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the salaries paid?

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will lend his support to the forthcoming second international peace flotilla to Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9014/11]

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will lend his support to the planned international peace flotilla to Gaza in which an Irish ship and Irish citizens will be participating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8810/11]

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tánaiste to reconsider this issue. The more widespread and prominent the support that is given to the flotilla, the greater chance it has of getting through and bringing aid and support to the besieged people of Gaza. If, for example, there was a Government representative on board one of those ships, it would make it far less likely that Israel would attack it. For that reason,...

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to do something; words are not enough. The Tánaiste did not indicate whether the Government will follow through on the call by his party colleagues, Deputy Costello and Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, to bring charges against Israel for its involvement in the brutal invasion of Gaza in 2006 and for its attack on the aid flotilla which was, by any standards, an illegal and immoral act of...

EU Accession (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste not agree that we could take a leaf out of the Icelandic people's book in holding a referendum on our bank bailout? Icelandic voters were allowed to have their say and that gave their Government a stronger hand in negotiations on how to deal with their banking crisis. The demand of the people, expressed in two referenda, that the bondholders should pay some of the cost...

Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Tánaiste's support and commitment for sanctions against the Burmese dictatorship and in support of Aung Sang Suu Kyi. As has been noted, she is an inspirational figure and her campaigning and that of her supporters have brought pressure to bear on Burma to an extent. However, I refer to the issue of consistency and double standards in another regard. Should the Government,...

Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to hundreds of billions in arms sales. Should Ireland not demand clearly and unequivocally, within the European Union, sanctions against such regimes, as well as an end to arms sales?

Overseas Missions (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he attended or was represented at Ministerial or official level at the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Berlin on 14 April 2011; and if he will report on that meeting. [8809/11]