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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of returning Irish citizens who have applied for means tested social welfare schemes; the number that have been refused on the grounds of not satisfying the habitual residence condition and further in the case of applications being refused, the number of these decisions that are being made by the deciding officers in social...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This debate is not primarily about Deputy Lowry. Given the amount of speaking time he has been given, I find it slightly frustrating that he cannot be bothered to stay to hear what the rest of us have to say on these issues.

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This debate is about the credibility of the entire political system, which has been battered as a result of a series of scandals which have revealed the rotten relationship between politics and big business. Like most people, I feel that the rotten relationship in question has contributed to the desperate situation in which we now find ourselves. People want to know that things have...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not also have to address a more systemic problem in terms of selling State assets in a competitive market driven by profit? Should we not draw from the series of scandals of this nature, as well as the banking crisis and the global crisis, the lesson that where a society and an economy driven by profit puts public assets on the market, the political system is inevitably corrupted?

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that not the issue we have to address? The last thing we should do is sell State assets to pay off the bad gambling debts of speculators and developers, as is proposed in the programme for Government.

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to a matter of grave national importance. I tabled a question to the Taoiseach on this matter but the question was not reached. A fellow Deputy also raised this point. Can time be made available to discuss the census issue and the company involved and contracted to participate in organising the census? I imagine the Taoiseach is aware that the company is CACI UK, which is a...

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to make the case to the Taoiseach why time should be made for this. Serious concerns are being expressed about the sensitive nature of the census information being potentially accessible to a company against which grave human rights allegations have been made and which is linked to the US Department of Defence. This is a matter of national importance and it should be discussed....

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Briefly ----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The census is taking place on 10 April-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a timing issue. There is a question about the integrity of-----

Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ------the census and this is a serious national matter.

Situation in Libya: Statements (24 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would all agree with the sentiments of the Tánaiste in welcoming the democratic revolutions that are sweeping across the Arab world in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan, and which are beginning to impact in other states also. They are to be welcomed because for the most part those regimes were brutal dictatorships that engaged in the systematic denial of the most basic...

Tax Code (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister stated that there will be a review of the universal social charge, that the charge must be examined and so forth, which is fair enough in as far as it goes. However, given the cruel injustice that the charge represents for low and middle income workers and families, the review must be undertaken urgently. The universal social charge is damaging people who are barely making ends...

Tax Code (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the same as the amount the previous Government took from ordinary people in its final budget. The Government should tax those who are wealthy and have acquired more wealth in the past year and relieve the burden imposed on those who cannot afford to pay the universal social charge.

Bank Guarantee Scheme (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, may I, as a new Member, ask a question?

Banks Recapitalisation (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a question that related to this subject but to which I did not receive a response. Can we know the names of the bondholders, including those we have already paid? I do not believe we should be paying them. Can the names of the bondholders be made available to the House and the public?

National Debt (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the future sustainability of the States debt burden arising out of the EU/International Monetary Fund loan package and the banking crisis; if he will reveal the names of all the bondholders of the Irish banks; if he will now consider unilateral re-structuring of Irish bank debt to ease the penal debt burden being imposed on citizens...

National Debt (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we failing to look reality in the face in respect of the unsustainability of the debt burden imposed as a result of this package? It is not only I who say this - this is a view widely held, including by people such as the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, lead writers for the Financial Times and economists in this country such as David McWilliams and Constantin Gurdgiev,...

National Debt (23 Mar 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not time to consider the Iceland option of defaulting or, at least, giving the people the opportunity to debate issues concerning the possibility of defaulting so that instead of bailing out banks we might put the National Pensions Reserve Fund into a job stimulus programme?