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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Deputy Fleming repeat that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chairman and all the guest contributors for a very interesting run through quantitative easing. Having listened to all the contributions, which were all very informative, one is left with the conclusion that what we are describing is the intractable contradiction that is now facing the European economy and arguably the entire global economy. While quantitative easing was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The thrust of what I am saying is this is the fundamental problem. We end up with an economy totally geared around debt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is great to meet a kindred spirit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am interested to hear whether people agree with this, given that Dr. Kinsella seems to be endorsing it. As many others have said, it is the essential problem we face. When it is compared, which is very technical and it is important Dr. Kinsella has done this, and when one cuts through it all, at the bottom, this is the problem we are trying to deal with and unless we address this core...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am conscious of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quantitative Easing: Discussion (8 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was surprised to hear reference to a crisis in leadership on the Greek side. To my mind, given what we have been told, namely, that the Greek debt is unsustainable and the people in Greece cannot take any more, the Greek side has made too many concessions. The people cannot take any more but Europe is insisting that they do. It seems to me, in so far as the Greek Government believes this...
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I move amendment No. 36:In page 20, to delete lines 19 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 and 2.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 38:In page 21, line 10, to delete “and profit on those costs”.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 39:In page 21, to delete lines 17 and 18.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 40:In page 21, to delete lines 22 to 28.
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 43:In page 22, lines 2 to 23, to delete all words from and including “(1) Section” in line 2 down to and including line 23.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: La Senza and Vita Cortex.
- Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Generally speaking, the legislation is to be welcomed. There has been some acknowledgement of concerns raised at earlier Stages in the debate. All of this is to be welcomed, but it quite simply does not go far enough, particularly in the area of young people. It is a pity that the Government is still lagging behind on this issue, given the absolutely fantastic sentiment for equality...
- Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also support this amendment. It is entirely sensible and appropriate. The Minister of State has acknowledged that elements of this Bill will have to be changed but cannot be changed at the moment for purely legal reasons, as Deputy O'Dea mentioned. The main explanation given to us on Committee Stage of the debate was that the marriage equality amendment had not yet been passed....
- Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
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- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I concur strongly with this amendment and the previous comments that were made. The points have been well elaborated in recent times, particularly with the Dunnes Stores strike and the manner in which those workers highlighted, through their action, the utterly scandalous situation of low pay and the intolerable conditions they and workers in many other employments have to put up with. Is...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To establish this right and link this legislation to what is a human right is a very positive, progressive and necessary step. We must raise the standards and counter the pressure and drive towards the race to the bottom. I would point to another dimension to this issue which we discussed at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform yesterday and I was very...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of bogus self-employment, the response of the Minister for Finance on this issue is shocking. There is no acknowledgement of the serious level of wholesale tax fraud that is going on in this area. The State is not interested in dealing with it. There is an interesting parallel between current events in Greece and the attitude of our State to the issue of bogus self-employment,...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was interesting that the Minister of State suggested David Cameron was playing a bit of a game, by committing to a living wage but taking it away with the other hand through tax credits. He stated wages are rising here and that we are trying to deal with low pay. Is the Government not doing exactly the same thing? Is that not the whole point of these amendments? I am very glad to say a...