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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Boucher's responsibility is to the bank's shareholders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, the bank chooses to torture people from whom it knows it cannot get money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What the bank is doing could not be described as anything other than punishment. What it is doing is punishing people because it knows they cannot pay, but it still demands that they do so, including by bringing the legal system down on top of them to force them to pay. There is no word describe it other than "punishment".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But the bank is still going to chase them for more money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the buy-to-let sector, I have made the following point to all of the banks. There are many people who are tenants of landlords who owe money to the banks. They are innocent victims in all of this in that they are paying rent to their landlords who have gone bust. The banks have several thousand of these landlords on their books and commenced repossession proceedings in respect of some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Often a person could be a party to a one year lease agreement which then expires, but because these things often operate on an informal basis, he or she expects to continue paying rent and remain in the property. The Residential Tenancies Act provides for a four-year cycle in terms of tenancy, which means that a person could expect security of tenure for three or four years. However, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the bank to do so. I hope we do not have cause to meet the delegates again to discuss the eviction of thousands of tenants by the bank.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the number of times the Cabinet committee on climate change met last year. [16187/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we all agree - certainly, everyone claims to agree - that climate change is an urgent priority throughout the world which requires us, without delay, to find ways of reducing carbon emissions and developing renewable and genuinely sustainable - the key word is "sustainable" - energy sources. The flooding, extreme weather events and desertification we are seeing in locations across the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question. The Ceann Comhairle did not interrupt any other speaker.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not interrupt anyone else who did exactly the same thing, which is just typical.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You do it every time, without fail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is concern regarding conflicts of interest on the part of people involved in promoting these projects and the crossover between semi-State agencies like the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and the private companies of some of the key personnel involved. These are serious issues given what happened during the property boom, and they must be debated. We should also discuss and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Taoiseach how he proposes to respond to the people calling for that robust analysis and for these projects to be put on hold until there has been a cost-benefit analysis of the environmental and economic gain and to ensure protection of communities and public participation in these debates. The Taoiseach has not as yet convinced anybody that he is taking this matter seriously...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just rubbish. The Taoiseach wittered on for 15 minutes saying nothing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have they been discussed?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly does not contribute to reducing CO2emissions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People are already protesting.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will put in place to address breaches of the 1993 EU working time directive in private nursing home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17476/14]