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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the child and adolescent mental health services that are currently waiting for inpatient beds, after being referred for admission; and if children are still being admitted to adult mental health wards. [6108/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an emergency inpatient bed in an appropriate unit in respect of a person (details supplied). [6107/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child mental health inpatient beds recommended by his Department; and the way this compares with actual provision. [6109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the water conservation grant, if this payment will be paid annually for the period of the capped charge. [6110/15]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Often in this Chamber as Deputies we have to talk about injustices, unfairnesses or cruelties that happened to other people and we have to convey their concerns, pain and desire for a remedy, but, occasionally, one has to talk about something of which one has direct personal experience and, for me, this is one of those occasions. Next Tuesday 13 years ago I had to bury my daughter, Ella, who...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were before the Tánaiste's cuts.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind the upcoming changes to the one-parent family payment which will see single parents, often looking after a disabled child or parent, losing up to €86 per week; the additional income supports that will be available to these parents who are unable to work because they are full-time carers; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (5 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to address the delays, often months, in the individual section review process and social welfare appeals process due to delays in getting files from different social welfare departments to the appeals office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4970/15]

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is all talk to us.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Government is the scab of Europe right now. The people of Greece have risen up, finally, and said they have had enough of the madness; that they cannot take any more; that they will not allow suicide rates to go through the roof or child poverty to reach obscene proportions; that they will not allow their public services and state assets to be butchered to pieces or allow...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many soup kitchens all over this country, yet we are trying to pretend we are different. On what planet is this Government living? It is time to stand in solidarity with the people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Britain, where child poverty is going through the roof, and with German workers. This is not about us versus Germany. This is about us against the financial...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Surprise, surprise - he is nodding at his colleague.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a line from the song "The Times They Are a Changin'" to the effect that those on the old road should get off the new one if they cannot lend a hand. People have to change because the current approach has not worked. This legislation is not even a sticking plaster. It is purely decorative and meaningless and covers up the continuing insane gambling in the financial markets. The...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are entities floating above the country which are controlled by crazy people who are making decisions that affect the human beings down below.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Scotland. It will then be rerouted back to Blackrock which will send a text message.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is beyond belief. This Bill is going to make no difference; it is absolute decoration. As an aside, according to the schedule, I was due to speak at 3.30 p.m. on the personal insolvency legislation, but Government speakers did not turn up. It comes back at a micro level to what is happening in Greece. The debate about Syriza and the Government is about why these big financial entities...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what our office told us. I have a schedule which I can show the Acting Chairman and which indicates that I was down to speak at 3.30 p.m. About six or seven speakers did not turn up. I was told that they were on the Government side, which was very unfortunate since we were dealing with the very important issue of personal insolvency. On this issue the same central points...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would not have to worry about such things as the sale of people's mortgages and other loans to entities and special purpose vehicles, otherwise known as vulture funds, if we were not flogging the family silver and, literally, selling off the city. We are flogging the country. Billions of euro worth of loans and property is being flogged to the very same people who helped to pump up the...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Welcome to the bizarre, surreal and labyrinthine world of financial capitalism in the early 21st century. That is about all I can say when I consider this Bill and what it is trying to deal with. It is difficult to know where to start. Of course, this is part of the problem faced by ordinary human beings trying to do simple things like put a roof over their heads. How simple these things...