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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I asked the Minister about this matter, he said he would bring together the Deputies from the locality to discuss the issues involved. There was no prior consultation about the individual the Minister had nominated for the position. The nomination appeared out of nowhere of an insider who was a board member, was close to the existing management and was on an audit committee that had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister promised to contact local Deputies.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Appointments to State Boards (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish.

Other Questions: Public Transport Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to tender out Bus Éireann routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40887/13]

Other Questions: Public Transport Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just another way of talking about privatisation if an adequate subsidy is not given to the public transport provider. Historically, even before the Government took office, we have not given adequate subsidies to public transport services. The cuts the Minister is imposing on the subvention will force the privatisation of bus services and the degrading of public transport services....

Other Questions: Public Transport Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Luas cost us a lot of money initially. There were massive overruns precisely because of private companies extorting the process. I agree the Luas is a success, so why should the benefits not come back directly to us? I do not see why we should outsource or privatise it. From my experience with the 46A in Dún Laoghaire I know a game is played whereby people state more people access...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the Clearing House Group; if it will be meeting before budget 2014; the agenda for this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40914/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness to Deputy Higgins, the first two questioners were allowed to ask supplementary questions. Will we not be allowed to ask supplementary questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So did we.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been raising the issue of the Clearing House Group since I was elected to this Dáil. During the past two and a half years when this issue has been raised, the Taoiseach has been throwing sand in the eyes of the people of this country and the Members of this House, in trying to cover up the fact of an extraordinary level of privileged access to his office and his Government for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the truth-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and these guys are exempt from the lobbying register.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the education fund for the Magdalen laundry women?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They left the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No one operates on my instructions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not doing a very good job in that respect. Why are they excluded from the register of lobbyists?

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Joan Collins for the considerable work she and her team have put into this Bill. It is often stated by the Government, in a rather unfair and somewhat disingenuous way, that this side of the House is good at criticising but does not put forward alternatives. That is untrue. On many issues, we have put forward alternatives. It is clear from this Bill that considerable...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Staff (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to respond to the requests of a Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company employee (details supplied) who has written to him requesting a determination on their contract of employment; if he intends to give such a determination to the person and three other harbour company employees who are seeking similar determinations; and if he...