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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am only asking whether it is being discussed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a pretty big one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the transcript has been passed on to it, I hope the group will seriously consider an amnesty as a minimum remedy for the wrong done to people. The other issue on which we have touched that is unacceptable is the veil of secrecy and lack of transparency and oversight in terms of what has been going on in direct provision centres, which have been excluded from the normal inspection...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not tie anything.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: After appeals.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is what is in the Bill. That is the point I am making. The implication is that doctors are lying and writing false testimonies on a large scale. I do not believe that for a minute. Even if there are a small number of abuses, the idea that the Government would frame the legislation on the presumption that large numbers of GPs are lying is rubbish. It is an absolutely unacceptable way...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, the Minister of State does.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have certainly had to think long and hard about my attitude to the final vote on this Bill, and I had to consult colleagues. This is because a trick is being played with this Bill. The trick is to smuggle in a very regressive measure under the cover of one that is marginally progressive. I find that sort of politics quite dishonest. It is a way of trying to blackmail the Opposition into...
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, made a very significant announcement in Limerick this morning to journalists about social housing. The announcement was not made in this House, despite the fact the housing crisis is probably the most serious social emergency we have in the country. Will the Taoiseach explain why he did not...
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the intention of the Government to have the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, come to the House and explain what he said to journalists?
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will there be a debate in this House on it?
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why I am asking the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want a debate on the strategy.
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no action. This is bogus. There is no action except in Limerick.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do believe the Minister of State but I do not believe the Government's intent in terms of this legislation. We have all seen, in practice, what is going on. The Government needs to get its head around what is going on and the actual intention of this legislation. When one looks at this issue in the round one begins to wonder if the thought process behind this Bill is to shave a...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe the Government on this one. There is no justification to the changes it is making. From an objective analysis of the current legislative wording, any sane and sensible person will see the Government is tightening the criteria around the eligibility to justify current practice which is completely wrong and unfair. It inflicts unnecessary hardship on legitimate applicants...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not quite sure, given the Minister of State's response and the fact that he seems to accept the points we made-----
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He suggested that his objective was the same as ours in terms of the issue of concern in that he is trying to get full-time people, and I accept this. I am not entirely sure why the Minister of State will not accept what I think is a reasonable compromise amendment, because it would set it out clearly in the legislation that while the option is retained to use agency people where they are...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 4:In page 6, line 6, before "employed" to insert the following:"where the Minister is unable to engage directly a registered medical practitioner, and only where this is the case,".