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- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Struggling families throughout the county are all too aware of the cruel and impossible cuts and taxes the Government has imposed on them, and that its grim determination to impose this suffering is in order to pay off the debts of bankers and bondholders. Will the Taoiseach explain to me and the nation how, at the same time it imposes this suffering on ordinary people in order to obey the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----refusing their demands for public inquiries to look into the environmental dangers posed by drilling for oil six kilometres off the coast of Dublin Bay? Why is he refusing their demands to look into the benefits - or lack of same - for ordinary citizens of this country of these unprecedented deals with multinational companies? That amount of gas and oil, which is given in detailed...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The estimates come from the oil companies. I brought a little file to hand over to the Taoiseach which details the oil company estimates and shows 90 billion barrels off the west coast and a similar amount found off the rest of the country. At current market prices that is approximately €1.5 trillion worth of estimated gas and oil. If even a small fraction of that is commercially...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just do not grant the licences in Dublin Bay.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is the map. There are 87 prospects in specific locations.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach propose to instigate a public inquiry with regard to what is happening in Dublin Bay?
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to add my appeal to the Taoiseach to remove the guillotine on the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. These issues are too important and touch too many lives to truncate the debate on the Bill in the way he intends to. There is a way out of this that is reasonable and fair which is to defer the debate on the property tax Bill until after Christmas. There is no rush with it as it...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to lift the guillotine on the debate for those specific reasons but also, more generally, because we need adequate time to debate the Bill and discuss amendments to it.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality that Fianna Fáil's miraculous conversion on the road to righteousness and political transparency is not the issue.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those double standards are not the issue. The Government promised no less than a democratic revolution in how we do business in the House.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not only betraying promises he made to the families of those with disabilities and promises made by the Labour Party on child benefit; he is now betraying the promise to have a new kind of politics. Will the Taoiseach please allow a debate on the Social Welfare Bill? It will seriously affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of families in the State. He should allow us to...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All of the political point-scoring - the jibes about Fianna Fáil, about what happens in the North and about the Labour Party - has to be set aside at this juncture, frankly. Notwithstanding the ideological differences we might have or where we might stand on the left-wing spectrum, I appeal to the Labour Party Deputies to think hard about what they will do tonight and tomorrow. If...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have tabled amendments.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State please repeat that?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the question but please repeat the reply.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not support this measure. This discussion, however, gets to the heart of matters. I welcome the fact that we are, at least, having this discussion. How we manage, or mismanage, these funds will dictate much of the country's future, our ability to stimulate the economy and create employment, which we all say we want to happen. I agree with the Minister of State when he says this was...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What we do with the funds is critical. It is shameful that the fund is now depleting and we are not able to replenish it, because we are paying interest on the debt that has been unloaded onto the back of the State. Next year, we will pay €9.1 billion in interest on a debt that is, for the most part, not ours. I do not accept the trade-off the Minister of State presents between...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked several questions.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Taxation Agreements: Motion (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the last question. The Minister of State said we have put €20 billion into the banks. That investment is now worth €8 billion. Is that not because he sold our share in the Bank of Ireland for a song? Why is it his Government's strategy to use our money to nurse the banks back to health and then sell them for nothing to private interests rather than holding on to them...