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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (20 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to deal with rapidly rising rents in Dublin and other urban centres particularly in terms of reviewing the appropriateness of real estate investment trusts, the private housing and rental market generally and the policies of the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8364/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to ask the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I clarify-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I clarify it? What is indicated here is not definitive and the Minister clung to that phrase that there was "no definitive evidence", but what that hid was that there were substantial concerns on the part of the Ombudsman that they were under surveillance and that surveillance may have been conducted by the Garda. That prompted it to undertake an investigation and to bring in experts...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has repeated-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the concerns that led to the investigation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The only person recently who has suggested that the Minister is too close to the Garda Commissioner is Mr. Oliver Connolly in the transcript of his conversation with Maurice McCabe. I am not suggesting that; he suggested it in the transcript. Setting that issue aside, does the Minister not think the fact that a security firm that is expert in this area that investigated possible bugging of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not? They could be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There could be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still unexplained.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's explanations just do not add up in the context of what we understand him to have known last week as against what he said in the Dáil. When addressing the House, the Minister used the phrases "I understand that no connection between any member of An Garda Síochána with any of these matters arose" and "While no information has been furnished to me by GSOC...
- Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to sign a statement of solidarity (details supplied) with the pro-democracy movement in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8115/14]
- Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As part of my question I referred the Tánaiste to a statement that has been put together by activists in Egypt and internationally calling for an end to the brutal repression that is now being undertaken by the Egyptian military regime against pro-democracy activists, students and journalists. Many of the people who led the democratic revolution in Egypt are now in prison, are being...
- Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste answer the question on whether he will sign the statement? We need action and not just words from the international community about what is going on. Democracy activists who were gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate the third anniversary of the Egyptian revolution were targeted by snipers and 64 people were killed. That is what the el-Sisi military regime is doing...
- Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that the Government is making some efforts in this regard and is saying the right things, but the problem is that these regimes are not responding. The Tánaiste rightly said in response to Deputy Nulty about Saudi Arabia that there are many regimes in the Middle East that on paper appear to be democratic but in reality are brutally repressive. The Tánaiste even suggested...
- Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we have sanctions to back it up?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Equality Issues (19 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide assurances to those campaigning for equal rights that no member of Government will represent Ireland at the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8114/14]
- Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has stated he discussed the issue of flags and parades with President Clinton. I suggest the New York St. Patrick's Day parade has given new meaning to what James Connolly called the carnival of reaction in its disgraceful refusal to allow people in the LGBT community to parade their identity. The Taoiseach should make some statement in response to this disgraceful decision....
- Other Questions: Official Engagements (18 Feb 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could wear the badge.