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No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, there is a name for institutions like Permanent TSB. In any case, I am referring to banks and other forms of mortgage lenders. I do not accept the Government's defence for one minute because it means the human being goes out the window. It inflicts cruel anxiety and hardship on people who sought those loans in good faith. If borrowers have got into trouble with repayments, in the vast...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That old chestnut.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The simple-mindedness, paucity of thinking, ideological bankruptcy that lies behind this concept of a rainy day fund the Government is presenting in the Bill, which it has been arguing for some time, is staggering. It makes clear that the Government has not the faintest clue or simply does not want to acknowledge why we had an economic crisis previously and why we will have another economic...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what happened. Even a child knows that. Everybody knows it but the Government pretends it is not the truth. It was something to do with the fact that public servants, apparently, were living beyond their means. That is just preposterous. I think it is happening again. All the developers who helped bankrupt the country, those greedy people who speculated on Irish housing then...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: VAT Rate Increases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have heard the script. Will the Minister of State get off the script for a minute? I asked him a question about Tony, who is suffering from cancer. Currently, he is paying €32.95 a month for a probiotic; €10 for thiamin; €10 for magnesium; and €20 for Vivioptal. Recommended by his doctor, he needs these products for his health and he is paying €70 a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: VAT Rate Increases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not accept it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: VAT Rate Increases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are asking the Minister to think about the health and well-being of people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us just let it roll. I can come up with a few questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is missing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we know which Minister it is?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Silence is golden.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: VAT Rate Increases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The increase on VAT on food supplements to 23% is shocking for huge numbers of people who need and rely on food supplements and vitamins. To put it simply, the Government needs to abandon this misguided plan. I will give the Minister of State a very simple example. Tony is a cancer patient and a constituent of mine. He is a pensioner with a medical card. He spends all of his small income...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have them soon? Does the Taoiseach have a date?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have already asked a question about income thresholds and I will add this further comment. The Taoiseach has gone on and on about a social mix in housing but the failure to raise the income thresholds for social housing makes a nonsense of social mix because nurses, council workers and people who are on low-to-average earnings are being whacked off the social housing list. That completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach address my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a specific question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met. [2758/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with climate change. [4067/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Briefly on that, the Taoiseach should start to prepare the ground for a border poll in the event of a hard Brexit and any effort by anybody to erect a border. It is a basic democratic call at this stage to let people make their decision if that eventuality occurs. My question is more generally about the Taoiseach's legislative priorities. I urge him to make a priority of legislating to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his legislative priorities for 2019. [2757/19]