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Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not? That Deputy was allowed to question-----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point of order is that I am opposing the proposal-----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and proposing an alternative.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The third proposal.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am suggesting that instead-----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am requesting that the Government instead allow for statements on the concerns of the students who are on the streets today.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a time motion.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government, at the behest of the European Union and International Monetary Fund, is pursuing the economics of the madhouse. It is bad enough that tens of billions of euro are being poured into the vaults of banks and pockets of bondholders but the price being paid for this policy is mass unemployment and extreme suffering among some of the most vulnerable sectors of society. It is not,...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing has changed and these cuts will make it worse. Education is key if we are to have any chance. The construction of a new DIT campus in Grangegorman has been scrapped when we should be investing in that area. In my own constituency, the IADT in Dún Laoghaire is 1,000 students over capacity because it was expecting new buildings, but the construction of these new buildings has now...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very nicely put, Chairman.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be as concise as possible. I have a macro question and a micro question. I will not waste time on the debate we have held many times here except to ask the Minister about the larger macro picture. Notwithstanding previous differences we have had in debates on this issue, is there not some recognition on the part of the Government and euro leaders that in the wake of the significant...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a question. In some cases we are going ahead with capital projects that people do not want and the justification for which is questionable while in other areas there are projects that people want and the value of which is not disputed by most people but which are not proceeding. The waste treatment plant in north Dublin is one example. The local authority in my area is proposing to...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should talk to them.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that we effectively own Allied Irish Bank and that it is supposed to be releasing money into the economy, why does the State not insist that the bank lend it money at a reasonable rate in order to invest in capital projects?

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are our banks.

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There can be no question about supporting this Bill. I understand it is technical legislation, the purpose of which is to raise the ceiling for the amount the Irish Film Board is allowed to spend in its lifetime from €200 million to €300 million because it has almost reached that ceiling. All of us should support this straightforward measure as it will allow the board to continue to...