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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will only make the following point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None the less, the Minister made the argument and I shall not sit here all night making that argument. He made the point, but I do not understand the double standard. It is unfair that very wealthy people who owed money to a bank, in corporate loans, were facilitated with big write-downs for companies that they bought. There might have been other companies that had loans and were paying...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no rift.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that the amendment at least acknowledges the concerns of members and people in this situation about the prospect of loans being sold to vulture funds. Deputy Fleming made the point that if the credit servicing firm is breaching the code of conduct on mortgage arrears and consumer rights generally it can be taken to task but the owners of the loans should also be subject to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to raise an issue under this section. I do not even understand it but I said I would raise it for Deputy Naughten. I have already mentioned the other matter he wishes to have inserted. He is not actually ill, he is undergoing foot surgery. That is why he is not here. He wants to signal his intention to ensure everyone taking out a mortgage is required to make a will. I am...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair for his patience.

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only issue on which I agree with Deputy Patrick O'Donovan and the Government is the stunning and staggering hypocrisy of Fianna Fáil when it comes to this matter. For Fianna Fáil belatedly to be concerned about the sell-off of Aer Lingus, when it commenced the process when it sold three quarters of it, beggars belief and confirms the verdict of its own departing member in the...

Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have no choice on this issue.

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is more like a landmark betrayal.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Serious issues related to child protection will not be discussed.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed to discuss these matters on the Order of Business.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How long do we have for Question Time?

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So much for putting children first. All the questions about children will be wiped clean.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To race through the questions on children is outrageous. It is an absolute disgrace.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the review, due to be completed on 8 May 2015, of the 700 previously unidentified files which were found in an office in Portlaoise in County Laois at the end of April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20494/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of recent reports on child protection services in County Laois and County Offaly, if he is satisfied that these services are sufficiently well staffed, funded and fit-for-purpose; that the children in these counties are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20495/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my question, I asked whether the Taoiseach is concerned given that there were lots of reports in the case of Portlaoise from frontline staff about the situation. We have a similar case with the psychiatric nurse suspended on foot of going to the media about the situation in Cork. My question is more general as to whether the Taoiseach is responsive and whether it is the policy of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has fundamentally betrayed his promises to the electorate in the area of health insurance. One of the central planks of his party's pre-election manifesto was the great promise of universal health insurance. He says he is still committed to that, but it is absolutely clear that it has been put so far back as to be a really meaningless objective now. Is it not the case that...