Results 601-620 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the question is about.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not need to learn from the Greeks in particular and from the other so-called PIGS countries that have taken a different approach? We should be talking to them about how, as a result of their resistance to the EU-IMF deal and particularly the resistance of the people of those countries, the German Finance Minister is now talking openly, in the context of the Greek situation, about...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach recognise the effectiveness of the Greek resistance to this package and how it is forcing a debate among the EU authorities about burning the bondholders? It is what we all know must be done to relieve the ordinary people of this country. Should we not meet with the Greeks, the Portuguese and the Spanish to discuss that and recognise that we stand or fall together and we...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not trying to score political points.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question and the question is about appealing to the Taoiseach to consider changing strategy-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All of the questions request the Taoiseach-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for a particular purpose.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a statement.
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a logical connection in the questions I am asking. We should specifically meet other countries in the same plight as we are-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking him-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to reconsider his decision not to do that and his strategy of appealing only to the EU authorities as a whole rather than specifically making common cause with the Greeks, the Portuguese and Spanish, who are in the same plight as us. I am suggesting and asking the Taoiseach to do so on the basis that resistance by the Greek people to the EU-IMF austerity measures is proving more...
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because it is forcing the German authorities-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----seriously to reconsider the rescheduling-----
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of debt and the burning of bondholders. Is that not proving more effective and do we not have something to learn from the Greeks in that regard?
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are our people not challenged?
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask a supplementary question?
- EU Summits (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is only four minutes per question.
- Pension Provisions (15 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the recent referendum in Slovenia when the people were consulted on raising the pension age will have any bearing on her proposals to raise the pension age here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15324/11]