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Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the immorality and damaging economic consequences of Ireland being forced to fully re-pay all senior bondholders in the Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36004/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the issue of the Anglo-Irish bank promissory note and the burden that it places on Irish State finances over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36005/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of slowing growth rates in the Eurozone with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36006/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the adverse impact of austerity measures on the Irish economy and the Eurozone generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 25: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans further bilateral meetings with other Eurozone leaders in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36008/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider proposing a joint summit meeting of leaders from Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Ireland to discuss the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the peripheral Eurozone States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36009/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the continued deepening and spread of the Eurozone crisis despite the changes in political leadership and moves to impose austerity in Greece and Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36010/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed with Chancellor Angela Merkel the treaty changes she envisages within the EU, following her recent statement on the matter and the time-line she envisages for such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36011/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed tax harmonisation with Chancellor Merkel as part of the treaty changes she envisages for the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter [36012/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the mandate and role of the ECB within the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is how the Taoiseach should do it.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From different angles.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Martin should know we also have questions to ask.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I dispute strongly the Taoiseach's suggestion that all of the questions in this group are the same. My questions, most of which he has not answered, are on a different planet from Deputy Martin's. The Deputy is much more on the Taoiseach's planet than ours. The direction from which our questions are coming is different.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Planet Reality. I note he Minister cannot resist having a go whenever I speak.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know why that is. I asked the Taoiseach 12 specific questions, but the only one he sort of answered was the first. I asked him whether he had raised the issue of unemployment with Chancellor Merkel and what response she gave. He did not tell us what her response was. This is indicative of all the answers and what is fast developing into the most serious economic crisis since the...

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was this the mandate that the Government would not cut child benefit or give a cent to the banks?

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach answered that question.

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was her response?

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Taoiseach for his more specific answers to the questions. What did Chancellor Merkel say on the promissory note and what point did the Taoiseach make on it given it is such a huge burden and the €3 billion per year could be invested in the economy? Did she not recognise the utter injustice of that and our case for relief on that question? The Taoiseach did not answer the...