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European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the agenda for the forthcoming European Council meeting on 23 October 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27357/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the next European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27358/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will hold a bilateral meeting with the Greek Prime Minister at the forthcoming European Council meeting on 23 October 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27359/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr José Manuel Barroso in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29881/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Taoiseach if Mr José Manuel Barrose indicated the need to change the European treaties in relation to economic governance; if a referendum on these changes may be necessary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29882/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the decision by European Council President, Mr Herman Van Rompuy, to postpone the EU summit on the debt crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29883/11]

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach not going to tell our European partners that their strategy for dealing with the financial and economic crisis is in absolute tatters and that it is a disaster which is strangling economic growth as well as causing great suffering for people throughout Europe? Even on its own terms it is strangling economic growth and threatens to tip the European economy into recession. No...

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have done what the Greeks did and resisted austerity because that way we might have got to burn the bondholders and we might have got the money without inflicting the brutal austerity the Taoiseach has been so enthusiastic to inflict.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The facts are coming in.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our debt is larger in proportionate terms.

European Council Meetings (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They get to burn the bondholders; we do not. They stood up for themselves.

Written Answers — Arts Policy: Arts Policy (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons employed in the arts; his plans for job creation in the arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29879/11]

Written Answers — Irish Museum of Modern Art: Irish Museum of Modern Art (18 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in view of the planned closure of Irish Museum of Modern Art from November 2011 to January 2013, he will provide an outline of the schedule of works; the position regarding staff during renovations; if he will give confirmation that it will open again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29880/11]

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not seen it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Surely the Taoiseach means "our banks".

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill: Second Stage (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They could be on their knees, of course.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill: Second Stage (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Clare Daly and Joan Collins.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill: Second Stage (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unlike the Sinn Féin Deputies, I do not welcome the legislation. The bottom line is that workers are being asked to work longer for less. It is part of a nasty, regressive attack on the rights and entitlements of working people generally. It arises in the context of a relentless, vitriolic and utterly dishonest campaign of scapegoating against public sector workers generally, the purpose...

Fiscal Policy (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he will explain his role in the discussions around the disposal of State assets under the EU-IMF programme and in relation to New Era and proposals for a State investment programme to create jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30088/11]

Written Answers — Onshore Exploration: Onshore Exploration (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in view of An Taisce's recent presentation to the Joint Committee on the Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht, his views on its call for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30089/11]