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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have indeed. At the end of this so-called pay restoration, public sector workers will still earn less than what they earned in 2008, when Fianna Fáil started it and before Fine Gael continued the latter's policies. That is shocking. This affects our young teachers, nurses and, let us not forget, the ushers who come in here and who have also been affected by a two-tier system,...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because we do not believe in EU austerity.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to make a sectoral employment order for teachers and employees in the English as a foreign language sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30476/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a proposal to reopen the old Merrion railway station as a DART station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30552/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did and I apologise for coming in and out. It is useful to have a chance to ask Mr. McDowell questions because I do not fully know about the workings of the bank. I understand the broad principles, but it is very helpful to get a clearer and more detailed picture. The EIB lends directly to a state for its own projects which are on balance sheet. It also does public private partnership...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of conditionality does the EIB put on the loans? Is it primarily about the strategic nature of the investment or the ability of the particular project to be self-financing and therefore able to pay?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. There was nothing I could do.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is repetition.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies. Genuinely, there was nothing I could do. I had to be at the management committee.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I was trying to get at.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. McDowell. Given that the level of capital investment has fallen way down since the crash and all that, a big debate we are having here - and I apologise if this has already been raised - is about the constraints of the fiscal rules as applied to capital investment. We are trying to make a case for capital investment to be treated differently from current spending. Has the EIB...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Mr. McDowell say that again?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, if something is co-financed by the EIB, if it thinks it is a good thing and our State, for example, thinks so too, would that be on balance sheet at the moment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. McDowell said the EIB does equity investment as well. Would it do joint projects with states?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the EIB do a joint venture with a state that would not be on balance sheet?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us say the EIB had 51% and the State had 49% in some project to build social housing here, for example.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing front, I am very worried about the PPPs. Mr. McDowell sounds quite enthusiastic about them. Can Mr. McDowell elaborate on the nature of the PPPs? Apart from anything else, they seem to be opaque and because they involve the private sector, we get all this stuff about commercial secrecy. We never quite know the details of a PPP. There are a variety of PPPs but my concern is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I press Mr. McDowell on housing? I take the point that PPPs are diverse and so on. Setting aside other types of housing, which we can debate another day, I do not see the case from the State's point of view for using PPPs for social housing because under the old-fashioned model, it was a win-win for the State. While there was upfront capital investment, there was a constant revenue...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the State set up a semi-State body to construct social housing, the EIB could potentially lend to it. Would that be off-balance sheet?