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- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the austerity the Government is meting out to them and to vent their fury at the broken promises of the Government and of the Labour Party in particular that it would all be different. I am sure the Taoiseach also is aware of the anger that now is building up among public sector front-line workers over the Government's plans to savage them even further in a so-called extension of the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----by involving people in this drama of whether Ireland will get a deal on a promissory note when, as the Minister, Deputy Varadkar has indicated, deal or no deal, it makes no difference? Is it not the truth that the Government is not looking for a write-down of the debt, has agreed in principle to pay every cent and that whatever deal it gets will make no difference whatsoever to those...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If it is not an elaborate charade, will the Taoiseach confirm for the public that the deal being sought will still involve this State committing to paying every cent plus interest of the cost to bail out Anglo Irish Bank? Is that the deal? Is it only a question of spreading that payment over a longer period and paying more interest over the period? It suits the Government and the Labour...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will the Taoiseach comment on the Tánaiste's reported comments in Chile to the effect that the Government would be "in jeopardy" if it did not get a deal? Is that true? Is the coalition threatened with falling apart if there is no deal? The Deputies look very comfortable beside each other now and it does not look like the Government is in jeopardy.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this a way of softening public sector workers for the real agenda of the Government and the troika, which is to shove even more austerity down the throats of front-line public sector workers and other citizens in this country at the demand of the troika? If a meaningless deal can be presented as a way of sweetening the bitter pill, the Government will be able to spin its way out of the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Anglo's way.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Being on the streets would be more effective.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet Northern Ireland leaders in view of recent events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2760/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has recently discussed corporation tax in Northern Ireland with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2762/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fine to say we are concerned about the underlying causes and the problems faced by young people and less well-off communities in the North but fine words and noble aspirations must be matched with deeds and a serious analysis of why young working class people in the North, particularly in Protestant areas although there are very significant problems for young working class, less...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and we are seeing the same process in the North. Should we not point to those factors, that there is a problem with institutionalised sectarianism and that some of the so-called respectable political forces in the North encouraged and stoked up sectarianism and tribalism in order to deflect attention away from cuts and austerity they are imposing on the people of the North?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were many young people involved.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the DUP's leaflets?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This series of questions has reopened the historical fault lines in Irish politics on the issue of the North. Notwithstanding those fault lines, the Taoiseach did not respond to the point that someone who is supposed to be on the respectable establishment wing of politics in the North, Peter Robinson's party and the Official Unionist Party, put out 40,000 leaflets stoking this crisis up and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not acknowledge that and address the issue in discussions on how we learn the lessons of this? I do not put the comrades of Sinn Féin in the same category with regard to doing that sort of thing. I am not suggesting they are doing that, but where the underlying problems are unemployment, youth alienation, housing, health and all the stuff that is being done to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and competition between communities over who takes the biggest burden of cuts. That is a recipe for constant flare-ups in sectarian violence.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is aware of the growing concern, criticism and outright outrage about the plans to dispose of the harvesting rights for Coillte. Is the forestry Bill going to deal with this issue? I understand negotiations are ongoing on the disposal of these harvesting rights.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are serious questions about value for money for the State. Is the Bill going to deal with this or will the Taoiseach allow for statements in the House on the plans surrounding the disposal of Coillte's harvesting rights?
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to IMPACT.
- National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath.