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- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bad enough that the Taoiseach wants to impose yet another regressive charge on low and middle income families in this country on top of all the other charges, the rising prices and the austerity measures-----
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which are absolutely crucifying people. It is disgraceful that on this Bill, the Social Welfare Bill and almost any Bill that really matters to the daily life of ordinary people, the Taoiseach is imposing a guillotine. He should at least allow for a proper debate. I put it to the Taoiseach that, such is the severity of the austerity that is now being meted out to people and being...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the point that they will want another type of guillotine to deal with the people who are imposing this austerity.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about tomorrow?
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is wrong with tomorrow?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing my time with Deputies Shane Ross, Mick Wallace and John Halligan. It is evident that despite all the hoopla, last weekend's summit meeting of EU leaders was a spectacular failure. The record decline in the euro, the collapsing stock markets, rising bond yields, downgradings and threats of further downgradings of European debt, all testify to the failure of yet another summit....
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach would be better off worrying about the politburos in Brussels and Frankfurt which are doing all the dictating at the moment. My party's politburo operates openly.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is begging them and they are just ignoring them.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are ignoring us.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And to sell our State assets.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Surely the Government knows what is in it now.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some other bodies will monitor our budgets.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Government representatives were at the summit. Do they know what they agreed?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has the substance and it signed up to it.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Which is going down.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the Europe of the bondholders or of the people?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A wealth tax.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Mathews, we are a little tight on time.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The list of categories that we are seeking in these amendments to have excluded from the charge are unanswerable for anybody who claims to be even vaguely interested in fairness. Unless somebody on that side of the House in the Government will tell us soon - I would like to see the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, nod his head and state that I am absolutely right and that the Government...