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- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that any perceived short-term advantage - the Government has not given any statistics or figures to back up the assertion that jobs will be lost in the Irish financial services sector - by essentially blocking the imposition of a financial transactions tax on the financial markets in Europe will amount ot a pyrrhic victory because it will make the position more volatile?...
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach responded to Deputy Martin-----
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and mine was a supplementary on his response to Deputy Martin.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No one answered that question.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because he agrees with the Taoiseach. That is why it is a valid question.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach intend joining the rest of Europe in doing it?
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was here.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So there will never be a financial transaction tax here.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Wait until it goes back.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the present Government and its predecessor have sought to justify Ireland's participation in these battle groups, they try to present the case as though Ireland is doing something that complies with the military neutrality for which this State stands and that we are merely involving ourselves in what essentially are benign humanitarian undertakings and that there is nothing to worry about....
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister obviously has not read the documents to which I refer.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister read the European Defence Agency's vision documents?
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister read them?
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the Minister is-----
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is totally wrong there. I am 100% on the side of the people fighting for democracy against the brutal Assad dictatorship and have joined with-----
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister just cannot resist it.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Funnily enough, only the other week we had a meeting at Liberty Hall, with Syrians involved, talking about how we supported the Syrian uprising against the Assad dictatorship.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The difference is that we are consistent in our support of the democratic and revolutionary forces across the Middle East whereas the Minister is selective. While he claims he supports them in Syria, he is not so quick to support them in Palestine or in Bahrain, and for that matter he is not so quick to say anything about how the generals are crushing the democratic movement in Egypt right now.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is selective because the real agenda behind his interventions in such situations, as well as the interventions of the European Union and United States, is to pursue their interests and their agenda and not the interest of the people of the aforementioned countries. This is what is of concern to me. In addition, the financial cost of this measure is extraordinary. The Minister...