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Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is the students' fault.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Financial Services Clearing House Group has met and the issues they discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48419/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The clearing house group and its unprecedented relationship to Government and top civil servants, as described by the Taoiseach, begins to look like Ireland's dirty little secret when taken together with our extremely low corporation tax and the Taoiseach's unwillingness even to look at the issue of financial transaction tax. Is it not amazing that although the Taoiseach slavishly submits to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just used the term "How is it", which implies a question. How is it that these people can have seven or eight meetings-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, how is it that the financiers and speculators to whom I refer can have eight meetings at the highest level with the Taoiseach and with top civil servants while the representatives of the 450,000 people who are unemployed cannot do so? Why are the representatives of hundreds of thousands of workers not invited to such meetings in order to discuss the problems those people...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is facilitating tax piracy and financial pirates at every juncture, while the ordinary workers of this country are continually hammered when austerity is demanded by the troika.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is already doing a good job in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since September. I am concerned with the position for the entire year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach indicated that it met on six previous occasions earlier in the year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of those who work in it did so.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pirates' cabal.

Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not forget Loughlinstown.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. When this compact was first presented, the emphasis was almost entirely on debt and deficit reduction. These are the key targets defined in the treaty. However, pressure from popular opinion, protests and alternative analyses by economists has slowly but surely started to shift the powers that be from their sole focus on debt and deficit targets while ignoring the...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Same here.

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The way in which the Government is dealing with the credit unions and the way this debate is being conducted is both telling and instructive, particularly when one considers how it deals with the banks, other financial institutions and the IFSC Clearing House Group. The latter ensures the policies of big for-profit financial institutions are translated, almost word for word, into Government...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she does not introduce rent controls and legal penalties on landlords who dicriminate against tenants in receipt of rent allowance in view of (details supplied); if she will achieve her stated aim of reducing rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49918/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Permanent TSB are not offering the mortgage arrears solutions set out in the Government's Personal Insolvency initiative, that is, mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49463/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the Adult Refugee Programme's annual budget spent on language teachers' salaries for the direct delivery of the service. [49938/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of the Adult Refugee Programme's annual budget spent on administration costs by the lead vocational education committee, County Dublin [49939/12]