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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of Britain's membership of the EU and the proposed referendum in Britain on that issue during his recent meeting with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22139/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach his participation in events around the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22141/13]
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The committee deserves considerable credit for producing this report and its recommendations. It deserves credit because this is a critical issue. However one looks at it and whatever view one takes on how or if we should develop our oil and gas resources, it is important that it is debated fully and that all the angles and aspects of it are understood, debated rigorously and that the wider...
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Statoil is a state company.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister not see the difference? The profits there go to the state. They have a vault of hundreds of billions of krone in revenues that would keep that economy secure for decades to come because they take 78% of the profits in royalties, direct taxation, etc., and it is a state company.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There would be no jobs under the current regime as Providence told us, in the case of Dublin Bay, that it was going to fly staff in from Scotland to Dublin Airport and put them on a helicopter from Dublin Airport to bring them out to the oil rig. They would not touch down on Irish soil. There would be no jobs, no community gain and no spin-off whatsoever.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is stated in the Providence report. If there is any journalist watching, I challenge him or her to go and read Providence's submission on its application to drill for gas and oil off Dublin Bay. That is the reality, as much as the Minister wants to deny it. They are under no obligation whatsoever. There is no regime currently over community gain or any arrest of it. Deputy Pringle...
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us talk geology then.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us talk geology. I hold a map of the basins off the side of Ireland's coasts which reach up to Norway and the North Sea. The basins which we are exploring are the same basins as the ones from which they are getting the gas and oil in Norway-----
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and in the North Sea.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because they want to get it on their terms.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are rolling over for them.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Chair-----
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister was not interrupting.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will conclude by saying that we should leave it in the ground until we have a regime that guarantees us a proper take and that we do get security.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Chair, can you ask the Minister not to intervene?
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Seriously, can you shut him up?
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an incredible way to chair these proceedings, that the Minister interrupts me and you do not say one word of criticism of him, and then you challenge me over speaking. That is utterly biased.
- Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Pringle just told you that I-----