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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Moscovici is concerned about macroeconomic imbalances. Joseph Stiglitz recently said that the real macroeconomic imbalance, which the Union does not seem to understand, is the gross inequality in the distribution of wealth, a point which Thomas Piketty has also made. This is the pattern across Europe, and it is the danger to macroeconomic stability. Why is that not addressed by him? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I took no longer than Deputy McGrath.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How long do we have for Question Time?

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So much for putting children first. All the questions about children will be wiped clean.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To race through the questions on children is outrageous. It is an absolute disgrace.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Serious issues related to child protection will not be discussed.

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed to discuss these matters on the Order of Business.

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is more like a landmark betrayal.

Order of Business (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have no choice on this issue.

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only issue on which I agree with Deputy Patrick O'Donovan and the Government is the stunning and staggering hypocrisy of Fianna Fáil when it comes to this matter. For Fianna Fáil belatedly to be concerned about the sell-off of Aer Lingus, when it commenced the process when it sold three quarters of it, beggars belief and confirms the verdict of its own departing member in the...

Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be difficult to overstate just how terrible was the tragedy and suffering inflicted on these families. After tragic situations occurred due to a lack of resources or a failure to have adequate patient safety, it appears that staff, under pressure from management, tried to cover up matters and prevent people from expressing any complaint about what had happened to them. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the review, due to be completed on 8 May 2015, of the 700 previously unidentified files which were found in an office in Portlaoise in County Laois at the end of April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20494/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of recent reports on child protection services in County Laois and County Offaly, if he is satisfied that these services are sufficiently well staffed, funded and fit-for-purpose; that the children in these counties are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20495/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is failing to acknowledge the fundamental difference between a vulture fund and other credit institutions that operate on a longer term or permanent basis within the State. As the Minister says, a bank or a building society might be subject to competitive pressures on interest rates because they will not wish to lose market share and they will want to enhance their brand...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will Deputy Tóibín read slowly?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment, as I did the last one. I wish to signal that I may table an amendment on Report Stage. I fundamentally oppose and object to the idea that people's mortgages can be bundled up and sold to vulture funds. That kind of carry-on produced a global economic crisis. I would like to see a regulation that precludes companies, firms or vulture funds which are not real...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was making a point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am responding to a point the Minister made.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will only make the following point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.