Richard Boyd Barrett’s speech last night (Wed, 25th Oct)in the Dail during a debate on the Health Service is reproduced below.
The debate was on the back of a motion put forward by the United Left Alliance (see HERE).
Richard Boyd Barrett: “As with so many issues before the election, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were full of fine words, noble sentiments and not a few specific promises when it came to the protection of our health services, accident and emergency services and hospitals in general. The Fine Gael pre-election document spoke about having the most ambitious plan for the health service since the establishment of the State. Fine Gael was going to increase access and make the system much fairer, dismantle the dysfunctional HSE, created by Deputy Micheál Martin, and end the efforts of Fianna Fáil and the former Minister and Deputy, Mary Harney, to privatise the health system by favouring private over public care.” View full article »
In a statement today, Richard Boyd Barrett, TD for the People Before Profit Alliance, said that it was pathetic for our government to take pride in the Troika findings presented today. Deputy Boyd Barrett said that austerity was crippling the prospects for economic growth both in Ireland and across Europe and that for the government to take pride in imposing more of it is insane. He urged the public to resist the austerity agenda in the run into to the forthcoming budget and stand up to the policy of economic and social doom planned behind closed doors.
