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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9163/17]

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill and the event it seeks to commemorate on a regular day each year. The Great Famine was an event of earth-shattering and tragic significance and long-lasting consequence for this entire country. Its impact still reverberates today. It fundamentally altered the historical trajectory of this country and had devastating human...

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was misleading as to the impact of the 2012 cuts.

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes but all this was made very considerably worse as a result of what was done in 2012. The average and number of contributions that had to be made for the entitlement were changed in 2012. Huge numbers of people who would have been entitled to most or all of the contributory pension before 2012 now find themselves getting considerably less. The Minister has acknowledged there is a problem...

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be made retrospective.

Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister considered the tax breaks for private pensions?

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a detailed report on the impact of the changes to contribution requirements for the State contributory pension made over the austerity years, including the numbers of men and women who are no longer eligible for the full contributory pension in each of the years since the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to warn the Minister that he is sitting on a ticking timebomb of anger among pensioners. The changes in entitlement to the contributory State pension that were introduced by Deputy Burton in 2012 represented one of the most sneaky, nasty and covert cuts of the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. Some 36,000 pensioners have already been affected by these cuts and changes. As this...

Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the spirit of the sneaky, clandestine and disgraceful cut that was imposed by Deputy Burton, the Minister has answered this question by attempting to baffle people with figures. He has sought to obscure the nastiness of the pension apartheid that was introduced by Deputy Burton in 2012. As a result of the changes that were made at that time, people who are now coming into their pension...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It attacked single parents while in government.

Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Central Bank reports take out debts.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The soap opera of the leadership struggle within Fine Gael seems to be preoccupying media debate during the past week. Frankly, it is lost on me and I imagine it is lost on large numbers of people who are concerned about having a roof, or not having a roof, over their heads. It is part of the long litany of people coming in to my clinic in dire circumstances day in, day out and week in,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The credit unions are offering €5 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is simply re-categorising rent allowance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Denis O'Brien, God forbid.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach would want to get on with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Housing has met recently. [8467/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government took away the €50 million it gave them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is lacking in detail.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht last met. [7035/17]