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- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that, but if an amendment is not moved does that mean we can discuss it at a later stage?
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does one have to move an amendment to be able to withdraw it?
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Ceann Comhairle is not pulling a fast one.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The exclusions and term limits provided for in the Bill have excited a considerable amount of concern among credit union members, particularly as they strike at the heart of the credit union movement. They are based on volunteerism and on a principle of democracy. While it is entirely reasonable that the Government and the regulatory authorities would want to ensure that no conflicts of...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody is sympathetic to the notion of renewal, bringing new people in and developing them to run credit unions. That is a laudable aspiration. However, there is a problem in artificially imposing limits which could actually have a detrimental effect without resolving the problem, particularly in small rural areas and towns where one might not have the base of people with the necessary...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 32:In page 35, line 10, after “committee” to insert the following: “as expressed through a written statement issued to the director in question”.We discussed this on Committee Stage and the Minister indicated sympathy with the purpose of the amendment. Perhaps it was a mistake in my office or in the Bills Office, I am unsure, but the line number...
- Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My anger at the failure of this State to vindicate the rights of women over a period of 20 years or more has really risen in recent days. That failure has emboldened so-called pro-life advocates to once again argue about the lives, rights and bodies of women. This is the spectacle we have witnessed in recent days. They are arguing as to whether suicidal feelings represent a real threat to...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all pensions payments by year paid to a person (details supplied) from January 1985 to 2012. [53134/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received a detailed application from Providence Resources for approval to drill on the standard exploration licence 2/11 granted last year. [53348/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (28 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that there will be no adverse affects on fisheries in Dublin Bay and the surrounding area in view of the licence given to a company (details supplied) to explore for oil in the area. [48406/12]
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of weeks ago Social Justice Ireland revealed that one in ten children goes to school without proper clothing or breakfast. The CSO revealed recently that 10% of the population is living in food poverty. Today we read, in a report from Trinity College and the ESRI, that two thirds of families of thousands of teenagers surveyed for the Growing Up In Ireland study are experiencing...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take that as a "No". The Tánaiste cannot give an assurance to hundreds of thousands of families who are living in poverty. Approximately 700,000 children live in poverty and hundreds of thousands more are hovering just above the poverty line. He cannot assure them they will be protected or get relief from the dire circumstances they face. The Tánaiste says there is no...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Increase the effective corporation tax rate.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These companies paid €4 billion in tax out of profits of €61 billion.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I simply want them to pay tax.
- Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are discussing the notorious blanket guarantee that Fianna Fáil gave to the banks, the major corporate donors, the bondholders and the speculators who helped to cause the crash in our economy and the wider European economy. Fianna Fáil initiated it and Fine Gael at the time also backed this guarantee. Whatever qualifications they may have put on it, when it came to it, just like...
- Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. We should not pay their debts and cripple our economy.
- Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a terrible price which is even more galling when one considers that these banks which we have nursed back to health refuse to give relief to distressed mortgage-holders. They refuse to lend to small and medium enterprises and they refuse to put the mountains of cash we have given them back into the economy to create jobs. I draw the attention of the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Services (29 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say anything.