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EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to talk or meet with other Eurozone leaders in view of the ongoing Eurozone crisis; if he will outline a schedule of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24751/11]

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has had with other EU leaders on the growing Eurozone crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26071/11]

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that Jean-Claude Trichet ruled out the possibility of bondholders taking some of the burden of a crisis they created. Let us be clear; it is they, the bankers and others, who created it. Did he explain why? What is the rationale for saying that we cannot force bondholders, the financiers and the speculators, to bear the burden? The Taoiseach can correct me if I am...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is whether there is any debate. Does the Taoiseach put that point to Trichet or the rest of them - that there is a serious body of opinion saying not just that it is unfair but that we are committing economic suicide?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In effect, is the ESM and the souped-up EFSM with corresponding or connected centralised economic governance criteria - the so-called six-pack - not a new treaty? It will centralise economic policy as a condition of bailing out countries and give more control to unelected and unaccountable central European authorities to dictate economic policy to countries that are in these mechanisms. The...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fiscal stimulus.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not continue bailing out the bondholders, but stimulate the economy, which this strategy is failing to do.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any discussion at all on that?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not work.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She just wants to negotiate.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also object to the guillotine being imposed on the Insurance (Amendment) Bill. I spent an hour at a Department of Finance briefing this morning trying to get my head around the quagmire of the collapse of Quinn Insurance and this Bill is yet again a case of the ordinary policyholders having to bail out this failed entity which is tied up with Anglo Irish Bank bondholders and all the rest...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That assumes there were no alternatives.

European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I oppose the motion. The European Defence Agency, EDA, is about promoting the arms industry. This is not appropriate for any state that is interested in promoting peace. It is certainly not appropriate for a state that claims to be militarily neutral. On any moral ground, we should have nothing to do with a body that was set up for the sole purpose of promoting, developing and expanding...

European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the EDA sell arms on the global market?

European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister believe in arms sales?

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect that the Minister would agree that unemployment, particularly at the levels we are now witnessing, is unacceptable and that it must be everyone's priority to do something about it. It is demoralising for people who were working and who want to work to find themselves dependent on social welfare and with no prospects of getting back to work. They face the difficulty of meeting...

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The UN states that, as an alternative, increases in spending on infrastructure, social transfers or targeted subsidies for private investors tend to be more effective in stimulating the economy because they directly lead to job creation, purchases and demand. The argument for stimulus and investment rather than austerity and a focus on bailing out the banks is being put forward by the UN. It...

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, the €10 billion could be achieved if we put people back to work. That is the reason we have a deficit. I am not suggesting people should work for their dole payments. Clearly, they must be given better wages than that but the extra money could be, for example, made up from the remaining €5 billion in the National Pensions Reserve Fund or by putting a small tax on the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on her meeting with the Special Needs Parents Association; the assurances she has given it; her plans to ensure the human rights of children with special needs will be protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26070/11]

Order of Business (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is precisely because I am concerned about putting people before profit that I am deeply concerned about the fact that the Taoiseach has failed to heed the objections raised yesterday about ramming the Bill through in such a short time. If ever there was an example of putting profit before people, this Bill is it. The people deserve a proper debate and proper scrutiny of this Bill, which...