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Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister going to at least allow a discussion on the deal on which I believe the Cabinet is meeting at 2 p.m.? Will he give briefings to the finance spokespeople after that Cabinet meeting to let the elected representatives of this country know what deal the Government is doing with the ECB?

Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Your Government.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, this is, by any standards, a very significant announcement.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask the Taoiseach whether he is willing to answer questions in the House on the announcement he has just made?

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except interest is being paid all the way along.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should tell that to the Saudi Arabian regime to which Europe sells weapons.

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister not also taking Question No. 9?

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's narrative might be convincing if there was any consistency in it when he decries human rights abuses, violence against women and so on inevitably attached to the word "Muslim" or "Islamic". Where is the consistency when this type of abuse is perpetrated daily in a regime like Saudi Arabia to which the European Union, the United States and so on sell arms weekly? There is no...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am annoyed because the Minister in his initial response to my question as to why Question No. 9 had not been grouped with these questions gave the rather disingenuous response that it was about battle groups when it also relates to military missions to Africa. The Minister knew precisely to what I was referring. The Minister is not being honest in terms of the manner in which he is...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They chop heads off every Friday in Saudi Arabia.

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said atrocities were being committed.

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for Irish military personnel to join any upcoming EU battle groups or military missions to Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6078/13]

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps it was an innocent mistake on the Minister's part, but the reference in the question was to our military involvement in Africa. It is worth saying, and I have a later question which we probably will not reach, that there is an alarming drift towards greater involvement by this country since the Government has come into office in military affairs and supporting a militarist agenda,...

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did Brzezinski not say that?

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why was James Appathurai there?

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I never favoured the Soviet Union.

Other Questions: EU Battle Groups (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Bang goes our neutrality.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Green Paper on Defence (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline the details of what is contained in the Green Paper on the Future of Ireland's Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/13]

Energy Security and Climate Change Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Catherine Murphy on bringing forward this Bill and on the obvious hard work and research she put into it. This is a comprehensive Bill, dealing with an incredibly important subject not alone for Ireland, but for the whole world and future generations. This Bill is a wake up call for the Government and society in terms of the urgency to address the issue of climate change. ...

Energy Security and Climate Change Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not mine. The consequences of the failure and collapse of these great civilisations, including Egypt or Mesopotamia, was localised because they did not span the whole planet and the level of technology at the time was not capable of damaging the entire planet. As other parts of the world developed later, what happened in those civilisations was not a catastrophe for the whole world....