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Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have ten minutes each.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will need at least a two minute warning. The Government has sadly parroted the lie that this programme for Greece is a bailout or some kind of act of solidarity with or assistance to the Greek people. Nothing could be further from the truth. This programme for Greece is purely and simply a bailout for the banks and the bondholders in Greece and across Europe who turned the European...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Ireland or Greece the Deputy is talking about?

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by all parties.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The money is not going to the Greek people.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not getting the money.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a leap in logic.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were the banks socialist?

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that under the existing licensing regime there is no obligation on Providence Resources, in the case of the so-called Dalkey Island project, or any other oil or gas exploration project in the event of going into production of either gas or oil to supply the Irish State. [12847/12]

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's proposal to sell off State assets and natural resources is the ultimate betrayal of the country and its citizens' economic future and heritage to protect the interests of bankers and speculators. It amounts to robbing the country and its citizens of the national resources and means through which we could have an opportunity to work our way towards economic recovery and...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much more strategic does it get than the ability of the State to produce its own energy? It does not get more fundamental than that. If we do not have energy, we have nothing. To say giving that away does not represent a giveaway of a vital strategic asset is beyond belief. I would like, however, to focus on forests. Like Deputy Donnelly, I was brought up in Dún Laoghaire and Wicklow...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is going to manage and control it?

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Clare Daly. I heard the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, say earlier that some of us on this side of the House, including those in the United Left Alliance and some other Independents, in criticising the plans to sell State assets and continue the cuts to the public service, were genuine but misguided. Let me turn that back...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All the Deputy needs do is look at the services.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disaster.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My phone has not stopped ringing as people cannot get their medical cards.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not the staff's fault. The Deputy should answer my phone for a while.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the wealthy.

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the issue of Providence Resources application for a foreshore licence to drill for oil and gas in Dublin Bay has been referred to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and Wicklow County Council as per remarks (details supplied) in Dáil Éireann on 28 February; if he will also refer...