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- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regards to the planned Dublin Array project, the licensing terms that will apply if the project goes ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20200/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one very direct question for the Minister. The sale of State assets is not included in the Minister's update. How does the commitment to the troika to sell off €3 billion worth of State assets, some of which is to be used to pay down debts, figure in this arithmetic? Does it figure in this arithmetic? If so, when does the Minister have to sell these State assets? What is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For this year or for any year in the medium term?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is open to us not to sell them but to meet the targets through whatever means we choose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a rather perverse notion of success against a background of 14% unemployment and crippling austerity which is being imposed on ordinary people. One can balance books by making people suffer. To take an extreme example, if we wiped out whole sections of the population you could probably balance the books, but it would be on the basis of extreme suffering, so it is rather perverse....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Minister's basis for saying there will be a modest recovery when all the indicators from Europe are that the economy is contracting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, Chairman.
- Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One doctor out of six can veto it.
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday the Taoiseach told the House that the sale of Coillte's harvesting rights was being considered and in the event of it going ahead, legislation would be required. However, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, said the sale of Coillte's harvesting rights was unlikely because of protests and opposition, in which case no legislation could be...
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to figure out whether the Government will separate the wood from the trees.
- Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When?
- Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when legislation underpinning the proposed incremental purchase scheme for existing local authority houses will be drafted, in view of the fact that there is currently no scheme available to tenants to purchase their local authority houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/13]
- Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State explain why there is a time lag? The tenant purchase scheme, which operated from 1995 until December of last year, was quite successful. It provided reasonable discounts for local authority tenants who wanted to purchase their own homes. The Minister of State was very vague regarding the context of when a new scheme will be established and she also did not...
- Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State indicated that people were put on notice in 2010. I was not a Member of the House at that stage. The Minister of State has still not indicated why there is a time lag. The tenant purchase scheme was successful. As as been pointed out, giving people the right to buy their own local authority homes is obviously very good for them but in general it is also good for...
- Other Questions: House Purchase Schemes (1 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are the scheme and the houses?
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Two years into the Government's term of office, we finally get to discuss housing and a housing Bill. However, it is a one-page, apparently technical, Bill. This is extraordinary. As everyone knows, we are an economic mess. Week in, week out, the Government states it must cut people's pay and conditions, impose brutal austerity on public services and sell off State assets because we have...
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody else discussed what was not in it.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was all relevant. It was all about the lack of social housing and NAMA. One could go through the list. None of those speakers was pulled up. We are discussing housing.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply pointing out, a Cheann Comhairle-----