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Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources his views on implementing the recommendations from the recent Joint Oireachtas Committee with regards to increasing the tax take from oil and gas finds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30694/12]

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the publication of this report, which was commissioned to respond to the belief that there is widespread concern about the current taxation and licensing arrangements for gas and oil. I certainly believe that when gas and oil are discovered and go into production, the people of this country get next to nothing from it, in effect. In that context, the production of this report by...

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the figures I have from the Numis Securities research department report, France had a take of just under 50%, not 35%. I do not know how to explain the divergence between my figures and those of the Minister. There is a very interesting graph of the tax takes of various countries that shows us at the absolute bottom, with by far the lowest amount of tax take for our citizens of...

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That means Providence will not get the licence in September, does it?

Exploration Licences (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, a foreshore licence.

Written Answers — Seismic Surveys: Seismic Surveys (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on concerns regarding the impact of seismic surveying in the Corrib gas field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30693/12]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the arrest, torture, incarceration and killing of peaceful protestors in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30733/12]

Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (26 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on the US and British governments to cease all arms sales to the regime in Bahrain which include CS gas and rubber coated bullets that are being used against protesters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30734/12]

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach rightly suggested, Fianna Fáil bankrupted this country by providing a blanket guarantee to bankers and bondholders-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----yet the Taoiseach's Government has continued this disastrous policy at a terrible cost to ordinary citizens who have lost their jobs and seen their incomes and services butchered. The Taoiseach has extended that policy by continuing to pay off unsecured and unguaranteed bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet no matter how much the Taoiseach grovels to the troika and to Angela Merkel she snubs her nose at us and insists that we take more pain and now she wants to do the same to Spain and Italy. Yet against this background this week the Taoiseach's Government is in the process of paying over €1 billion to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide bondholders. Is not the equation in terms of...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while somewhere in rural Ireland-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----a community fears for the future of their school, or the parents of children with intellectual disabilities-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----fear for their child's future because of the loss of vital supports, or more families are made homeless as a result of the Government's cuts in rent allowance.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not save these vulnerable people more suffering by refusing to enrich the multimillionaire speculators in Anglo Irish Bank bonds and go to the European Council and tell Angela Merkel that we have had enough-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that the people of this country have had enough suffering and they will not continue to take the pain for her and the multimillionaire speculators?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Go to the European Council and tell them-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is 18 July. I am glad the Taoiseach mentioned it.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand the Taoiseach correctly, what he is saying is that maintaining our good reputation with some multimillionaire on a yacht who is celebrating tonight his good fortune-----