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Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----occasions with celebrities and personalities quaffing fine wine and eating fine food-----

Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----at the same time as brutal austerity is being imposed on people who are struggling to put food on the table or pay their bills? It is an aspect of the visit that some of us who were opposed to it are concerned about. Is it appropriate, given the suffering so many people in the country are going through?

Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not associating me with them.

Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer one part of my question.

Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the appropriateness of such expenditure when austerity is being imposed on the people.

Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Glitzy occasions and spending money on fine food for select invitees-----

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need clarification on this matter. The debate on Second Stage is to be guillotined, which is unacceptable. May we have clarification with regard to Committee, Report and Final Stages which have been timetabled for tomorrow at 9 p.m? Is the debate on these Stages to be guillotined and will Opposition amendments be accepted? Earlier today it was suggested to me we could not submit...

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need clarification about the process to be followed.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The legislative programme indicates that the housing Bill is expected in early 2012. Why is it being taken in 2012, when new housing policy guidelines are already being implemented-----

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking about the timing of it.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to ask the question in order to-----

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question about the reasoning for the timing.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that not what the Order of Business is about?

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has effectively thrown 20,000 to 30,000 thousand people off council housing lists.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This has been implemented by local authorities throughout the country-----

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and we have not had a chance to debate that. This is a move that will essentially be another bailout for developers and speculators who caused the economic crisis.

Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are we imposing the policy before we have the chance to debate the legislation? It has very far-reaching consequences, even in terms of the public finances.

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that the case, even if it is economic treason?

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shameful that any Government, particularly one which includes the Labour Party, would consider selling any part of a vital strategic public asset like the ESB, Bord na Móna or Coillte. It is even more shameful that it is being done under the diktat of the European Union and the IMF to pay off the private debts of bondholders, speculators and vultures of the financial market. It is...

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (20 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can one define that as anything other than asset stripping? I totally disagree with advice of Deputy Ó Cuív to the unions. I hope Sinn Féin Deputies agree that we need a massive mobilisation of working people in this country on the streets on 8 October when the European Union and the IMF come here to show them that we are not allowing the Government to sell our vital strategic assets....