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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the continuing use of Shannon Airport by the US military with President Obama during his visit to the US for St. Patrick's Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24238/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if the US-EU trade agreement was discussed at any of his meetings in the US and with whom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24239/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if community welfare officers have discretion to raise the rent caps for those searching for accommodation in order to allow them to find housing in the area in which they are based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24232/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homeless Accommodation Provision (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24231/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the guidelines regarding time out rooms in schools; the way they are used; the recommendations regarding design including the way windows should be made secure; if there should be a handle on the inside of the door; and the kind of observation there is when a child is in the room. [24658/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines for teachers and special needs assistants for dealing with challenging behaviour in children; and the supports available to teachers dealing with these issues. [24659/14]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some people do. I have major problems with a few elements of the legislation. The measures on recovery of overpayments are scraping the bottom of the barrel. I will give two cases without mentioning names lest the Acting Chairman jump down my throat. One mother, now a pensioner, told me her son, now in his mid-40s, was an apprentice chef when he was in his late teens or early 20s. At the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise something that is not directly related to the Bill, although others have rightly brought it up, which is the Paris Bakery situation. I know the Minister was down there this week and many of us joined the protest yesterday. We have had a litany of situations like the Paris Bakery, including Vita Cortex, Vincenza, Jane Norman and Connolly Shoes. Time and again, employers are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one brief comment and then a question. It seems in all of these matters it is a case of the chicken and the egg. Whether it is corporate tax, financial transaction tax or now shadow banking, we cannot do anything because it is a big international matter anyway and, therefore, we will merely protect our own interests and not worry about the bigger picture. It means the bigger picture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good old bowler hats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have to agree to disagree, because I think this is dangerous. I shall give a further example to press the point. Credit unions, very sensibly, do not lend out money that they do not have, because they know it is a dangerous practice. We have recognised the need to increase core tier 1 capital in banks because the levels were dangerous. They were lending out way too much money as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a one line question: why does Mr. Carrigan insist that the risks are low?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. They have helped advance somewhat my knowledge of these opaque financial entities. I will have to think long and hard before I understand everything. People can call me a Luddite but this is part of the creation of a global casino in speculation. These money markets are creating a casino in speculation that is at yet another remove from any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On risk, there are risks that people can see and understand and can say they see the point of them. For example, they could take a risk in investing in developing renewable energy because we need energy and if they invest in that area, they might develop resources that would be useful for the State and create a few jobs. That is a risk I can get. Let us take the risk of investing, for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the cruel, cold logic of cutbacks but the reality is that in December of last year 32,000 children were waiting for speech and language assessments, many of them for more than a year, and 16,000 children were waiting for therapy. The INMO says that in hospitals we need one staff member for four patients, whereas currently we have one per eight during the day and one per 12 during the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In local authorities, people with chronic disabilities, heart conditions and other vulnerable people are being told they have to wait a year or two to get a grab rail in order that they can get up the stairs to have a bath. That is absolutely unacceptable, yet the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sanctioned three new spin doctors at the beginning of this year. It was considered...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the nurses and local authority staff needed to help vulnerable people and children cannot be employed.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am fully in favour of cutting the pay of people at the top of the public service and politicians, and reducing the number of bureaucrats at the top of the system, but I am absolutely against having levels of staff shortages among nurses that endanger patient safety, that we do not have enough people to carry out assessments on vulnerable children with special needs or that we do not have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Minister going to do about that?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will lift the public sector recruitment embargo; his views on whether staff shortages in areas such as the health service, local government and associated services are now resulting in the unacceptable decline in the quality of those services; if he has carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the cost and efficiency of outsourcing...