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Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not something workers should look forward to, but rather something 260,000 workers should fear because low-paid workers, precisely those who thought they would be protected, in hair-dressing, contract cleaning and agriculture will now have their wages and conditions attacked by this Government when they might have thought they would be protected.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking about the legislation, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wonder whether this vendetta, as it seems, against low-paid workers-----

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished, a Cheann Comhairle. I am just asking questions about minimum wage legislation.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At last.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a direct question for the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (14 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well the Ceann Comhairle is not. That is for sure.

Written Answers — Inshore Fishing Industry: Inshore Fishing Industry (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to revive the inshore fishing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7784/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance, in view of the fact that the one-parent family tax credit can be withdrawn on the basis that a person is living with another person as man and wife, if he will explain, when a person does not wish to declare themselves to be living with another person as man and wife, the criteria used by the Revenue Commissioners to make that decision on their...

Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil has some nerve in talking about safeguarding education spending or commending its own record. It is quite extraordinary. Its record includes cutting Traveller education resources, putting a cap on special needs assistance and cutting the co-ordination of rural services for the disadvantaged, in other words, hitting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged sections of society....

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste is correct to ask for constructive questions and contributions to this debate. Perhaps the Tánaiste agrees that it is very difficult to take seriously the castigation and criticism by Fianna Fáil when it has not got down on bended knee and asked for forgiveness from the people of this country for what it has done to them. I refer to Fianna Fáil's major culpability in...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the prescriptions of the EU and the IMF, irrespective of how we got here, are moving us in the opposite direction to that which allows for job growth and economic growth? The EU and IMF require austerity, which is sucking money out of the economy. For Greece to get a miserable 1% reduction on its interest rate, it had to agree to €50 billion worth of privatisation....

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we to accept that? We are moving in the opposite direction, instead of stimulating the economy.

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to avail of the wisdom and experience of the people who have been here much longer than I have been on the issue of-----

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the relationship between the Taoiseach's Department and State boards, semi-States and so on. I submitted a question on the accountability for semi-States and State boards, which was passed to the Minister for Finance by which I was little surprised. Is it not to the Taoiseach the people on State boards and semi-State boards should be responsible and should we not be allowed ask the...

Appointments to State Boards (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a general question about semi-State companies and State boards.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing my time with Deputies Mattie McGrath, Healy and Ross.

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the arguments about the debate that happened at the European Council have been gone through and I have a short time to make my points. As Deputy Doherty stated, no doubt all of us want to sort out the mess we are in, but what seems to me extraordinary is that there is no willingness on the part of the Government to recognise that the path we are being asked to go down by the IMF and...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be siding with people in Portugal who are standing up to it, and people on the streets in Greece and Spain who are saying that neither do they want to pay for the crimes of politicians, bankers and the corporate elite. Should we not stand up with those people and stop the insanity?

Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to press the Taoiseach on the matter of a debate on the staggering announcement by AIB in regard to 2,000 job losses and the anticipated announcement regarding further job losses elsewhere in the banking system. When is it proposed to hold that debate on, as acknowledged by the Taoiseach, this serious matter?