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Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, the Technical Group used all of its speaking slots.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the IOU to the bondholder carry more weight than that to the policyholder?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Minister is answering that, could he not tell us who the bondholder is? He must know the identity.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister ask Mr. Alan Dukes for the identity of the bondholder?

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health if any assessment has been done as to the likely impact on the accident and emergency at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, as a result of the proposed downgrading of the 24 hour accident and emergency at St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26374/11]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health if the budgets, staffing levels and bed numbers currently in place for St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown and St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, will remain the same or see reductions following the proposed re-configuration of accident and emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26375/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, the salary in the new contract for the CEO of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, due to be signed in March 2012, will be set at a maximum of €110,569 in line with the new salary range for newly appointed chief executive officers of commercial State sponsored bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26660/11]

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By selling them off to pay off gamblers' debts

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since when did privatisation create jobs?

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the Estimates indicate.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the Tánaiste's clear indications that he intends to connive with the EU/IMF troika in asset-stripping the country in order to pay off speculators' debts, when will the legislation which I presume will be required to sell off our State assets come before the House? If the Tánaiste can give us the date I can get busy organising the protests which I hope will be taking place outside...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is better than the Government's solution.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since when did privatisation create jobs? Is this the new Labour Party line?

Ferry Operations (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the significant threat to jobs, pay and conditions among a company (details supplied) and Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company employees at Dun Laoghaire harbour, as a result of the decision by the company to downgrade its ferry service at the port to seasonal status and cost cutting measures being...

Ferry Operations (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Minister to put as much as pressure as he can on Stena Line to pull back from downgrading to a seasonal service from Dún Laoghaire because the Government has committed itself to developing tourism infrastructure and if we do not have a proper year round service in Dún Laoghaire, it will make a mockery of efforts to improve the such infrastructure. It has always been a vital...

Ferry Operations (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is more to it than that. This person is still on the board. For example, according to the profit and loss account, in 2007, when the same director was living in Dalkey, he claimed €458 in expenses to travel to Dún Laoghaire eight times a year. In 2008, when he was living in Cork, he claimed €1,300 per meeting to travel from there. The fare for a return train journey to Cork is...

Ferry Operations (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not use that money; it goes into a campaign fund. Written Answers follow Adjournment.

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total expenditure in 2010 on consultants fees by the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that travel expenses are being paid to a board member for eight meetings per annum which cover travelling from the United Arab Emirates; in view of the fact that Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is...

Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This by-election is an opportunity for the people of Dublin West to hold the Fine Gael-Labour Government to account for the raft of false promises made before the election and the rapid series of betrayals that have occurred since then. In the typically cynical fashion of the political establishment here, Fine Gael and Labour exploited the despair and anger felt by ordinary people who have...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the current situation in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27367/11]