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Order of Business (7 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers would rather meet the Government.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (7 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the way a joint owner of a house who has no communication at all with the other owner of the house should complete the local property tax form, when they are not in a position to follow the instructions in the booklet that read, if you are not the sole owner of the property, you should agree with the other owner(s) who is to complete and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (7 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that are employed at the local property tax help line; the grade of these people employed; the nature of their contracts and if he will give details of the customer charter that applies to them. [21390/13]

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I regret that the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, is not here to hear my comments, although she probably is not very sorry about that fact. She often accuses me and those of us on this side of the House of being negative so I want to take the opportunity to say something positive.

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important during this European week that we review the experience of the last year. While Members have referred to certain negative things, I want to discuss some of the positive developments here and in Europe as a whole. One of the very positive things that happened in the last week was that 4,000 people went into the Wicklow hills to join in a demonstration featuring music, poetry...

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public sector workers in this country, who have been battered with pay cuts over the past five years, finally said "No" in the past few weeks. They defied threats and bullying, stood together, showed solidarity and said "No". Positively, the Government threats to legislate immediately and impose 7% pay cuts did not happen. It shows positively that when workers stand together they can...

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a positive note, we need more of that sort of people power. We need people to take to the streets and say that austerity is not working, that we want a fairer policy where the bondholders and speculators pay the price for their crimes so that the rest of society can flourish and develop and that we can focus on creating jobs. For the past five years, Europe's policy has been to say we...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has studied the international experience of privatisation of public forests, particularly in New Zealand and the brief experiment in Sweden, in his consideration of the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte is unlikely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21884/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Listening to the Minister's response, I get a sinking feeling of the sort one might have had if one had watched Nero fiddle while Rome burned. His assessment that we are making progress and the process is working, whether in this country or more generally in Europe, is not one that would be shared by the vast majority of people in this country, the rest of Europe and, increasingly,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the European Commission recently indicated that unemployment will be higher than anticipated and the European economy is moving into a second quarter of recession?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware that growth in service exports has counterbalanced the decline in manufacturing exports but I put it to the Minister that when a country’s manufacturing begins to decline it is in serious trouble. In recent years, when we pointed to the weakness in the domestic economy the Minister repeatedly stated that, provided we remained competitive, our thriving exports, most of which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Now, precisely as we predicted, the austerity applied in Ireland and subsequently extended to the rest of Europe is causing the European market to contract and this contraction is hitting our manufacturing sector. Is the Minister seriously suggesting that the contraction that is taking place in the rest of the European economy will not impact on Ireland or choke off exports, the sector the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So am I. I read Noel T. Palmer or whatever his name is. That is the only economics-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is not addressing the point I am making. The Minister is right. There is some growth in the American economy, in Asia and so on, although there are worrying signs of what could happen in Asia. The difference between the United States and Asia is that stimulus is taking place in the United States and investment is taking place in Asia. In contrast, in Europe the austerity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody else thinks it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Paul Krugman today or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know what the Minister is going to say as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, Minister-----