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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have had your 15 years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy's party spoofed for 15 years and look where that landed us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Setting aside the question of the euro crisis, the meeting with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was on the question of world hunger and on the occasion of the Olympics and Paralympics. Perhaps that should have been an opportunity to ask slightly broader and deeper questions about the priorities in the world and how well governments are dealing with the issues facing humanity. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The differential between those at the top and those at the bottom is growing wider every year, including in this country, where the top 10% of people have 14 times the income of those at the bottom. It is in that context that the financial transaction tax arises. It was proposed specifically to deal with the impact of globalisation and the unequal distribution of wealth, including world...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not answered my main question. I accept that Ireland has a reasonably good record in terms of aid for the developing world but my question is on the financial transaction tax and the reason we are not taking a more proactive leadership role and leading by example when it comes to championing the imposition of this modest proposal that was put forward explicitly to respond...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are we not leading from the front in demanding and publicly confronting those leaders, including David Cameron in Britain, who refused to go along with this modest proposal to deal with poverty and inequality across the world? Is it the case that it is because the Taoiseach has as a higher imperative the question of economic competition over everything else? Competition when it is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But economic competition-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when it is applied as the highest imperative that overrides everything else, leads to starvation, hunger, inequality, poverty, needless deaths and people dying from diseases from which they should not have to die. The financial transaction tax is an effort to deal with that and we should be the ones who lead by example and proactively argue for its imposition and be willing to bring it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach use our Presidency of the EU to launch a campaign on this?
- Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Like the other speakers, I pay tribute to Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan for bringing this comprehensive motion forward and highlighting the many important issues it raises. It is timely that such a motion should come forward because alcoholism and drug addiction, particularly heroin addiction, have blighted our society for many years. We are now in an economic recession, with mass...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (2 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has targets for creating jobs so as to reduce unemployment over the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39029/12]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister realise how much fear and anger there is in the country at this time? There is fear in the hearts of ordinary people that they will be pushed over the edge into poverty with cuts in child benefit, the imposition of property taxes and water charges, as well as more hikes in mortgage interest this week. There is anger that this should happen at the same time that €1...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The action would also benefit another Fine Gael supporter who gave a political donation to a Minister of State, Deputy Creighton.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not reminiscent of the Fianna Fáil sleaze that the Government would have denounced so quickly a few years ago? Does the picture of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, with Mr. Murphy not look reminiscent of the pictures of Mr. Brian Cowen with Mr. FitzPatrick?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this not the sleaze that we thought would be left behind? It seems it has returned with a vengeance. Is this not proof that yet again, as with the last Government, we have a Government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich while ordinary people are being slaughtered with cuts and austerity. What is the Labour Party doing propping up a Government like this?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just us who are inciting protests. This week, in The Irish Times, Mr. Paul Krugman, the well known and respected economist-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----stated that the protestors in Greece, Spain and elsewhere in Europe who resisted what he termed "cruel" austerity were absolutely right.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He argued that the troika is wrong and the policies are unfair, cruel and crippling for the European economy and economies like ours.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister think people have the right to expect not to have what is displayed in these pictures?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do people not have the right at least to expect that when cruel austerity is being imposed cuts in home help, property charges-----