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Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to bring forward legislation for a similar referendum to the one in Iceland?

Legislative Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach in view of the findings of the recently published Moriarty Report in relation to a former Minister (details supplied), if the Government intends to reconsider the recent arrangement it made with the that Deputy to gain his support; and if he will reveal the precise nature of that arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6024/11]

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to go over all of the ground. Obviously, it has been well covered.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, the Ceann Comhairle should not cut across me all of the time. I am entitled to ask a question.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am on the list for this one.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are matters arising from the Moriarty tribunal debate that were not satisfactorily answered which are to do with the here and now. The Taoiseach stated there was no arrangement. Did the Taoiseach meet Deputy Lowry or did any member of the Government, formally or informally, meet Deputy Lowry in the context of him making a decision to support Deputy Enda Kenny's nomination for...

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It arises out of the Moriarty tribunal and the issues related to it.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is in the question, if the Ceann Comhairle looks.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it in line with satisfying public concern about the issue of corporate donations to political parties, given all of the findings of the Moriarty tribunal, that the Government should tell us what corporate donors-----

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----gave to Fine Gael Party funds over the past year?

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my six minutes.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the question.

Agreements with Members (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were there any meetings?

European Council Meetings (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should the Taoiseach not say to his European counterparts when he next meets them that, in light of the downward revised growth projections for the Irish economy, the cuts and austerity they require to be imposed on this economy and the people in it are counter-productive and are not working? He should tell them the reduced growth that is projected is the result of the austerity and cuts and...

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the grouping?

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does it include Question No. 38?

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the devastating announcement that 2,000 jobs are to be lost in Allied Irish Bank, an institution which is 92.8% owned by the Government and which we have bailed out -----

Order of Business (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- to the tune of €20.5 billion, are we not going to have an emergency debate on those job losses and the fact that they are being visited on ordinary workers while, for example, the CEO of that bank is reported as earning €500,000 per year? Are we going to discuss the devastating consequences for the workers concerned?

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When it comes to postal services, we should apply the wise adage that if it is not broken, do not fix it. Probably nowhere does that wisdom apply more than to the postal service. It is not an exaggeration to say that the postal service is a modern wonder. Everybody gets the same service for next to nothing - it costs 55 cent to post a letter from anywhere to any other place in the country...