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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I do not agree. There was a big fight over the €100,000 limit and so on. The bail-in is welcome but it is 8% of liabilities, with the state's 5%. Then we have all the conditions about the extent to which it may threaten the stability of the wider eurozone and the debt sustainability of an individual state. After that bail-in, which is welcome but limited, the next port of call...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is enough.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (8 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, with the deal it was translated into debt.

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I recently heard an advertisement on Newstalk which greatly disturbed me. It stated whether the economy goes up or down one can make money. This follows quite a widespread pattern of advertisements on radio stations these days which speak about spread trading and how one can make money out of thin air. If one has a bit of money one can give it to firms which will gamble on one's behalf....

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, 13,000. It matters a lot.

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The jobs matter a lot. I do not think it is a good idea for the future of employment in this country or for a sustainable economy for us to become hostage to these people, which is what we have become. At the moment the world is claiming that these corporate entities that are avoiding tax - the big multinationals, the wealthiest corporations in the history of the world - are doing...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One would think that after 100,000 people took to the streets in what was probably one of the largest demonstrations in the world against austerity, proportionate to the size of this country, the Government would listen. Instead, this budget is a dishonest con trick. After the Government has beggared the nation to pay off the debts of gambling bankers, it has thrown a few crumbs to the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Smoking is a public health problem - I would not like my children to smoke and I say this as a smoker - but this will not work. This is a revenue grabbing exercise that will hit people who are already hammered and struggling yet again. The hypocrisy of the Government's position on the matter is shown by the fact that it has cut the health budget this year. I have double checked it since I...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has actually allocated less. I appeal to the members of the Government not to tell us that this is about public health.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (14 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is about revenue gathering. Yet again, it is a matter of hitting the people who can least afford it. It will not make a whit of difference in terms of the public health issue.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about bondholders.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is talking about the figure of €60 billion.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I congratulate the Acting Chairman on the superb job he is doing in the Chair. It is important to keep Deputies on track. The issue of whether we should seek retroactive recapitalisation of our banks is related to whether we are prepared to demand that Europe play its part by retrospectively lifting some of the crippling burden of debt that has been imposed on Irish citizens and...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I fully agree with the Acting Chairman.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is that the education system and even the workers who build our schools are paying the price for that €8 billion. Why is the State refusing to investigate this scandal? The reason is that because the way the State sees it we have to build schools cheaply and force workers-----

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to do nothing-----

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because €8 billion is going out in interest-----

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which the European Union should be recapitalising.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chair is absolutely right.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question before us is whether we should apply for retroactive recapitalisation.