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Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not time, given this announcement of horrendous job losses, to re-examine legislation dealing with excessive remuneration for executives-----

Order of Business (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ------in banks which are effectively State owned?

Croke Park Agreement (13 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apart from the injustice of visiting pay cuts on low and middle income public sector workers, what about the economic irrationality of it? If the Government takes money out of the pockets of ordinary workers who spend in the economy, it has a detrimental effect because demand is reduced and the economy contracts. The only public sector reform we should examine is one that deals with...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on the impact the changes in funding will make to hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7558/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the closure of 900 beds; the plans to cut more beds; the hospitals specifically that are at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7559/11]

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When it comes to postal services, we should apply the wise adage that if it is not broken, do not fix it. Probably nowhere does that wisdom apply more than to the postal service. It is not an exaggeration to say that the postal service is a modern wonder. Everybody gets the same service for next to nothing - it costs 55 cent to post a letter from anywhere to any other place in the country...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy should look at his addiction to neoliberalism.

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the devastating announcement that 2,000 jobs are to be lost in Allied Irish Bank, an institution which is 92.8% owned by the Government and which we have bailed out -----

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- to the tune of €20.5 billion, are we not going to have an emergency debate on those job losses and the fact that they are being visited on ordinary workers while, for example, the CEO of that bank is reported as earning €500,000 per year? Are we going to discuss the devastating consequences for the workers concerned?

European Council Meetings (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should the Taoiseach not say to his European counterparts when he next meets them that, in light of the downward revised growth projections for the Irish economy, the cuts and austerity they require to be imposed on this economy and the people in it are counter-productive and are not working? He should tell them the reduced growth that is projected is the result of the austerity and cuts and...

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the grouping?

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does it include Question No. 38?

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question relates to legislative priorities. In light of the projected growth forecast of the International Monetary Fund, IMF-----

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the reduced-----

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a question on legislative priorities.

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The worse growth prospects put forward by the IMF and the outcome of Iceland's referendum-----

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, this is about legislative priorities.

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you let me finish the question, I will explain.

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The result of the Iceland referendum, where the people in that country voted "No" to the bank bailout-----

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Taoiseach consider it-----