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- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the burden of this crippling austerity measure will be imposed on ordinary low and middle income families who are struggling to pay their bills? How can the Taoiseach justify this?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need sufficient time for proper scrutiny of amendments and the Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has glossed over an important fact. The Government could easily have amended the legislation to provide that agricultural land being worked on for commercial purposes would be treated in a different manner. The effect of the Bill as drafted is that the value of sprawling estates owned by the super-wealthy in this country, and not used for agricultural purposes, will not be...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while sprawling estates of 100 acres, owned by the super-wealthy-----
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will not be assessed for the purposes of this property tax, proving yet again that this Government is protecting the rich.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the reason the Government wants to ram through this Bill, and why it imposed guillotines on the debate on it before and after Christmas is that it does not want people to know the truth, namely, that it is protecting its multi-millionaire friends and the super-wealthy and yet again imposing the burden on families that have already been battered with austerity measures?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 1 of the Bill. The Taoiseach should read the legislation.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should not be glib about this.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking of land which is over one acre.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister Cameron regarding his proposed referendum on EU membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4038/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any meetings he has had with Prime Minister Monti at the EU Council meeting in December or at any subsequent meetings at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the EU leaders he has met with since the EU summit and if he will report on these meetings. [9966/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any discussions with the Greek Prime Minister since the EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9967/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any meetings or discussions with the recently resigned Bulgarian Prime Minister since the EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any meetings or conversations he has had with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel including any discussions he has had with her on banking debt and the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11391/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11392/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not realise that ordinary people in this country are sick of hearing constant announcements about progress on restoring the public finances and announcements such as we have had over recent weeks about great deals for stringing out the period over which we must pay these enormous debts, declared as victories and reasons to celebrate, when there is no commitment to anything...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The bill has quadrupled.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not disingenuous to refer to the recapitalisation of the banks as coming out of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF, when that was part of an overall package in which we were forced to hand over the rainy day funds of the State and its citizens as a condition for getting loans, all of which were to pay back the gambling debts of private financial institutions, our banks, or to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach brought it up.