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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations and scenario planning he is undertaking to deal with the possible implications for the Irish economy of the policies of the new Trump administration in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5105/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Donald Trump is on a wrecking mission, that is obvious, although I would caution against allowing his administration to bully us. The reason they have to make America great again is the American economy has declined massively. It used to have 40% GDP, which then went down to 20% by 2014 and it is now down to 15%. The American empire is in decline and Donald Trump personifies that decline....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a contradiction of what the Minister says.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been making that argument for years.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Deputy Nash again or myself?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one supplementary question each left.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have always argued that multinational capital is not quite as mobile as the Minister thinks. They make big investments and do not just run off and leave them overnight. The Government parties have argued that they have to get down on their knees and offer them zero-rate taxes. The rate is 12.5% in theory but in reality it is less than 1% for Apple, as we know. In reality, it is an...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Trump is dangerous but the Government can go on talking to him.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Phádraig in Loughlinstown in my area has had a lot to put up with. School authorities have been waiting 20 years in temporary accommodation to get into their new and permanent location, which is bad enough. From talking to them this week, my colleagues in my office were saying their big problem now is just getting teachers. While they have sanction for additional full-time...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Please, if we could-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking for-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What we get is very different.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will pay higher bills with the Taoiseach's policy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who told you that, Elon Musk?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Taoiseach's suggestion earlier today that he was calling for a housing debate.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking every week since the publication of the 250-page Housing Commission report - commissioned by the Government - for a debate on that report and the Government has run away from it every single week for nine months, and again this week. Can we finally have the debate the Taoiseach says he wants on the Housing Commission report that the Government published? Of course, we...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How do you know? You will not debate it.