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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In his initial reply, the Taoiseach indicated that he had met a litany of CEOs of large corporations in New York. He referred on two occasions to what he calls the roadmap to tax competitiveness in Ireland and stated that he had encouraged the corporations in question to invest here as a result of that competitiveness. There have been widespread reports of the Government conferring with...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Six and a half percent.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we all see it?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we see the advice before we vote?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we see it?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why should some get the briefing when we do not?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all have to vote on this.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Taoiseach gets to see it and we do not.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He will not show us the proof.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have got to vote on it. How are we supposed to do so if we do not see the evidence?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In relation to the vote we have to take later on Deputy Clare Daly's Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013, the Taoiseach has just indicated that Labour Deputies are receiving a briefing.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did say a "briefing".

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask out of respect for what goes on in this Chamber, in which we are to vote on a Bill of that level of seriousness. A briefing has been given to some Deputies in this House. it must contain argumentation. It does not merely state in one line that the Bill is unconstitutional. Is the Taoiseach seriously suggesting that is the advice? There must be argumentation in it dealing with the...

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am only asking whether Deputies who will be required to vote on this can be given the same briefing-----

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that the Taoiseach just admitted is being given to Labour Party Deputies.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said it.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Attorney General even give the Government any arguments?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extraordinary.

Standing Order 107I: Motion (10 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find myself in something of a dilemma in the face of this Standing Order. There is not much point in opposing it, but I could hardly be enthusiastic in supporting it. Essentially, this change relates to the veil of secrecy that legally supports the golden circle in this country. If the public is to see any value whatsoever in the banking inquiry, I suggest it relates to the question of...