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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent communications with the President of the United States of America. [7680/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we are all glad to see some signs of de-escalation over the Ukraine, with Russia withdrawing some troops from the Ukrainian border. Our Government and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, are very quick to be critical of a possible attack by the Russians on Ukraine, or the massing of troops on the Ukrainian border, both of which are totally unacceptable. Yet there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [6393/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Partnership Meetings (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At a time when workers are rightly calling for pay increases to deal with the issue of inflation, I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to the fact that Aer Lingus, a company that got a hell of a lot of public money during Covid-19, is forcing its ground operation workers to vote on a pay freeze until 2025 and, in some cases, take a 10% permanent pay cut on their restored duty allowances....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I note the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is sitting beside the Taoiseach. The Killian Woods report from last weekend on the shared equity affordable housing scheme would seem to suggest that the Government's affordable housing plan is looking increasingly like it is going to be completely defunct. I do not agree with that scheme because I think it is chasing already...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see how that recruits nurses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reality.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for getting rid of the USC.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who pays the other €600?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is working so well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not working very well at the moment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just get them to pay their taxes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----energy companies and corporations are making an absolute fortune at the same time that workers are being hammered as a result of the cost of living.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly will not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems that the bank of the last resort is always the workers’ pocket. That is the truth. What the Taoiseach is really saying is that the workers can take it in the neck. The elephant in the room in the context of his argument is the incredible increase in the wealth and profits of the richest in our society----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----while workers are having their pockets looted as a result of increased energy prices and rents that are utterly stratospheric and totally unaffordable. The Taoiseach did not answer my question about how workers are supposed to pay for these things. He also did not mention the fact that profits in the last decade have gone up by 172%. He did not mention that we now have nine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach honestly say to workers, pensioners and people on low and average incomes, with a straight face, that the paltry set of measures he announced last Thursday to deal with the catastrophic rise in the cost of living is adequate? Can he seriously suggest that is the case? Average heating and energy costs are due to go up by about €800 a year. The Government is giving...