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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree that the level of influence and privileged access given to the Clearing House Group is completely disproportionate to that given to other sectors? I ask that question with particular reference to what has happened in Cyprus. The people of Cyprus have learned to their cost what can happen as a result of over-reliance on a financial services sector that is involved in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a dangerous strategy for this country to give privileged access to a group that has clearly had a major influence on policy, for example in the case of the proposed financial transactions tax? A new tax exemption in the area of derivatives and securitisation was introduced in the recent Finance Bill. Some 21 amendments were made to last year's Finance Bill. This group gets more...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments he has made to State boards and the process being employed in these selections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The claim that there would be a democratic revolution in how government was conducted has not translated into reality. It appears as if the cronies of one tribe are replaced with those of the other. The hope was that there would be a genuine opening up of the process to allow people who were outside the cliques and the networks, outside the existing organisations, to have a real input into...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the process employed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has a role in the process through which-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He sets an example. I was just giving it as an example of the process through which selections for State boards occur and saying that it is the case that it is does not match up to the promises of a democratic revolution. I do not want to cast any aspersions on the people the Taoiseach himself appointed. I am sure all the people the Taoiseach mentioned are very capable. It is interesting,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are important sectors and that is civil society. While I accept that it is right and proper that they should be represented, where is the opening up of appointments to those who are not within those loops? I am talking about ordinary people who are a bit further down society's hierarchy and who might have a real interest in and knowledge of these areas. They may work on the shop floor...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean people who are not full-time officials or part of the academic elite.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forest service has produced any reports in relation to its remit in overseeing Coillte; if so, if he will provide these reports; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15006/13]
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As is typical of the Government, the Tánaiste has tried to distance himself from the crisis in Cyprus and said it is different here. I refer to an article in The Irish Times, which quotes a German banker who headed up the Deutsche Bank London operation and who was involved in the IFSC:Instead of having to go all the way to Wall Street, German banks soon found a casino in their own euro...
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not true that the Government has done the unthinkable by protecting the bondholders and corporate depositors and inflicting all the pain on ordinary householders-----
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while the people of Cyprus have forced the troika to back off in its efforts to do the same in Cyprus?
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do German bankers think so?
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Over €100,000.
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Bondholders first, then corporate deposits.
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Bondholders first, then corporate deposits.
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should not put words in my mouth.
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Corporate deposits. How many times must I say it?
- European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: After protest.