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Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with US President Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16431/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he raised with the US President at their recent meeting; the responses he received from the President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16432/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will give details of his main achievements on his recent visit to the US and meetings with the US President and others during the visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16433/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the Eurozone crisis and the slow down in growth in the European economy with the US President at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16434/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the recent massacre by US troops of 16 Afghan civilians during his recent meeting with President Obama; and if so, the response he received from the President on this matter. [16435/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of Iran with the US President at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach the other Irish businessmen and individuals that were also present during his recent visit to the US stock exchange; the basis on which they were selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the six questions I had tabled cover three different aspects of the visit, I will ask about each of them. In recent weeks and months, President Obama has been strident and often damning of the failure of European leaders to deal with the deepening crisis in the eurozone. He has called consistently for more decisive and more concrete action to deal with the financial crisis in Europe. He...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been careful.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I was very careful.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, I was very careful about how I put it.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take the Ceann Comhairle's point. I simply am summarising what was in the Moriarty report. It made serious findings about the circumstances in which Mr. O'Brien received the aforementioned licence and about the role a former Fine Gael Minister had in helping him to secure that licence. The report also noted that significant payments were made by Mr. O'Brien to Deputy Lowry. Given this...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were six questions.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure which part of the point I made about the Spanish banking crisis was not clear to the Taoiseach but surely it should be very clear that President Obama's criticism of the manner in which European leaders have dealt with the deepening financial crisis in Europe has gained renewed force from the unravelling of the so-called bailout programme for Spain's banks. The country has...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You do not get many answers anyway, Taoiseach.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The President says we are delivering the wrong answer.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her rationale for changing the Data Protection Act and declaration on the new FÁS registration form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28052/12]

Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the review of the domiciliary care allowance promised, the measures she will put in place to ensure that the same number of persons are not refused access to the DCA in the first instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28053/12]

Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has commissioned any reports into the impact of the domiciliary care allowance review on vulnerable children; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23995/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of courses funded by the Local Government Management Agency for senior executives in local government, the cost of these courses; and the number of at tendees per council. [28168/12]