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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the Minister responsible for community affairs, in the interests of the health and welfare of children and young persons, to achieve the re-instatement of the Oasis youth outreach project, for vulnerable teenagers in the disadvantaged Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, which recently had its funding cut; and if...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened to the Minister's speech earlier. He implied that those of us looking to completely abolish FEMPI legislation essentially have no plan to finance such a move. He implied that we were reckless and that the calls amounted to the politics of permanent protest and so on. First of all, let me state what we are talking about. We are talking about money that was stolen, mostly from...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government did not provide a quorum. Anyway, Joanne was in the House recently and was due back today. As a result of the pay apartheid and the two-tier pay structure for new entrants, over the course of 40 years she will lose €240,000 that she would have earned otherwise. That is the price of a house. Alison, who started in 2011, was hit by the earlier FEMPI legislation and...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Labour Party Deputies are not here.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is still no one here from the Labour Party.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not 15 minutes?

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not hear Deputy Donnelly's speech yesterday but I received an e-mail from somebody who did, who had e-mailed me last February about her mortgage and engagement with the financial institution that used to be Irish Nationwide and became IBRC. It is telling about what is at stake in all of this. I will read out a little of what the person says:I am an IBRC mortgage holder with a...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolutely fair thing to do, although I am sticking quite closely to the subject matter of it, as opposed to certain previous speakers who managed to stray into discussion of the Brexit vote.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is legitimate, and I will explain the connection if it is not clear. I think it is fairly clear. This is about the disposal of its assets by Anglo Irish Bank and IBRC and huge write-downs it gave to the benefit of one person we know, at least, who happens to be Ireland's wealthiest and most powerful businessman - somebody who had a record of past connections with a previous Fine...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Iceland did not do too badly.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the debate about again?

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is a hoot.

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a misguided, flawed Bill. It is more of the same failed policy approach that has brought us to the fairly sorry pass we are now at. In a way, it is also the worst sort of opportunism in that it plays politics with deadly serious issues such as drug addiction and gangland crime. The bizarre response to that can only really be explained by knee-jerk political opportunism, combined...

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support and welcome this all-party motion as an escalation, at least, of the political intervention of this House in securing the release of Ibrahim Halawa, a prisoner of conscience. I pay tribute to his family for their resoluteness in continuing to fight for the release of their brother. However, I have to be honest and say that I do not believe we are going to secure his release until...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts to the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19850/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Cases (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to publish all advice from the Attorney General and any other State and semi-State body or agency which informed her decision to appeal the historic landmark decision of a High Court Judge (detailed supplied) to designate the Moore Street battlefield site in Dublin 1 as a national monument; and if she will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will end the new entrants pay differential across the public sector given the expanding economy and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19756/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a day of shame for the former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Labour Party when he cut the pay of new entrant teachers and other public servants, something that played a big part in the decimation of the Labour Party. It is really unconscionable that this pay apartheid continues. I know the Minister has talked about negotiations but we want to know...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never said there would not be economic growth. The question is whether the benefits of that growth would accrue to the majority or to a tiny elite. That is why we raise this issue. It is extraordinary, cynical and laughable for the Minister to suggest that FEMPI was not a major factor in essentially threatening people with a stick or sword over their head and saying that if they did not...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we have the right to vote on the motion so that Members can at least show their colours in terms of their attitude to restoring the pay and conditions of public sector workers?