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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an Oireachtas Members' inquiry line for his Department and INIS, as operated by other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54154/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Eligibility (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 445. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons students who are sponsored by the Libyan Government and who wish to study English before going on to third level study here are required to have letters of acceptance from third-level colleges here before they are allowed to study English while the same requirement is not made of other sponsored students who are allowed to arrange...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Eligibility (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 446. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the contacts there has been between his Department and the Libyan Government to facilitate Libyan students coming here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54170/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 447. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times at Irish national immigration service at Burgh Quay; if there is a customer service policy; if there are any plans to improve waiting times and customer service at Burgh Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54171/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the amount consultants with private practice are receiving on top of their Health Service Executive salary in private fees and the measures he is taking to address this. [54101/13]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government promised.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the banks? The Taoiseach needs to answer the question he was asked.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Like my colleagues, in all sincerity, I wish the Taoiseach and all other Deputies the best for Christmas and thank the staff for all their hard work. In doing so, I am acutely aware, as I am sure the Taoiseach is, that there are hundreds of thousands in this country who will not really be celebrating Christmas and for whom it will be a tough time, a trial, something to get through rather...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should demand more. The Taoiseach might not want to go as far as I or others would go, but to let this drift on as another abandoned promise is not acceptable. That abandoned promise is now being replaced with the strategy for growth, as Deputy Collins pointed out. Let me acquaint the Taoiseach with a conundrum that he must understand.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, but this is what is replacing the necessary debt write-down.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two lines in it and then we will move on.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask that the Taoiseach let me finish; he will have a chance to respond. There are two lines in the document about that, but the approach is to let us forget about that and talk about growth.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all want growth, but there is a conundrum: in order to make that debt sustainable we must have growth, but in order to have growth we have to get a break on the debt.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One cannot have growth without a break on the debt.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow that through, we should not pay out €9.1 billion in interest next year.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will kill us.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will make the level of growth that the Taoiseach is talking about impossible. He will have his chance to respond.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's growth forecast in this strategy he has a baseline assumption of 2% growth and an optimistic scenario of 2.3%, but the ESRI has three scenarios. It has a stagnation scenario in which the debt issue is not resolved and the growth the Taoiseach hopes for in Europe does not materialise. Why is that stagnation scenario not set out, when IFAC and the troika have said that the...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any objective analysis of the economic scenarios facing us would at least have indicated that this was a possibility. Instead, the Taoiseach has given us an aspiration which may materialise.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A suggestion I gave to the Taoiseach yesterday is that he should go to Europe tomorrow and say that instead of giving them €9 billion next year, we will hold €3 billion and use it to fund a major programme of social house building by the State-----