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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (28 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will verify that Irish territorial waters are not being used by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for any operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16365/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances and criteria for students obtaining Student Universal Support Ireland grants for courses that are registered outside the State and the students remain living and learning within the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16667/15]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in his upcoming Harbours (Amendment) Bill for ports of regional significance, he plans references to "the council" to mean the executives of the relevant council or the elected members of that council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16513/15]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 2011 when I was elected to this Dáil I have posed dozens of questions to the Minister and his predecessor about what I believe to be the gross mismanagement that is going on in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. I have raised the enormous waste of money on crazy, madcap plans that nobody ever asked for, the latest of which is a plan to mortgage the assets of the harbour to raise...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would strongly urge the latter option for Dún Laoghaoire. That is the point I am making. I have heard about these two options for quite some time. The harbour company, with its executive and board, needs to be dissolved. There are enormous savings to be made in executive salaries and expenses, some of which were falsely claimed and never repaid, not to mention the hundreds of...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has to be dissolved.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very serious about this. There is a rebellion taking place in Dún Laoghaire. A public meeting this week was packed. There is overwhelming anger against this plan. Save Our Seafront, a group in which I am involved is having another meeting tomorrow which, I think, will be absolutely packed. Protests will almost certainly follow because of extraordinary anger at the fact that it...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interests of democracy and in the best interests of this important amenity and the Dún Laoghaire area generally, we should dissolve the harbour board and bring it under direct public control where there is real accountability and genuine public input into the plans to develop and protect this harbour as a unique public amenity.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should I take the Minister to a meeting?

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because I am annoyed.

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the moving of the writ for the by-election in Carlow-Kilkenny. I particularly welcome the fact that the People Before Profit Alliance will have a dynamic candidate, Adrienne Wallace, a recent graduate who is now working in Carlow. She typifies the new generation of people who have come into politics largely as a result of the complete failure of the political establishment and...

Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not talking about Deputy Ann Phelan. There is a need to have mechanisms to make people accountable and replace them when they fail to honour political promises they made. That is the feeling that drove hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets in recent times, as well as the unprecedented entry into politics of new layers of people demanding political change. As a young...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that the due diligence that is currently being carried out on the assets of Dún Laoghaire Harbour in County Dublin is being carried out under the auspices of his Department; if it takes into account the proposed expenditure of €18 million on a new cruise berth; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their participation. I would like to discuss the variable rate mortgages and the apparent differences in the rates here compared to those in the UK. While profiles of borrowers can vary anywhere, variable interest rates seem to be higher here than in Britain and the North of Ireland. The witnesses referred to greater risk in the South. Could they elaborate on it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Credit losses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Credit losses refers to losses the bank has incurred in the South of Ireland, presumably much of which has to do with what we have just been through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I am trying to establish, and this is probably the perception, is that the banks are unloading the cost of their own mistakes onto the variable mortgage holder, therefore, the cost is greater here because we have been through this crisis, which was largely not of the making of the people with the mortgages but of the financial institutions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Brown has made that point, and I do not have much time so I will take that answer. I ask about Mr. Brown's interaction with the Minister, the Department and so on. Can he tell us anything about what the Minister is saying or has said to him on these matters or the degree to which he would be willing to respond to what the Government is saying about the extra pressure it will put on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I really want to know is whether he is putting pressure on the bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But to date.