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- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow that through, we should not pay out €9.1 billion in interest next year.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will kill us.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will make the level of growth that the Taoiseach is talking about impossible. He will have his chance to respond.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's growth forecast in this strategy he has a baseline assumption of 2% growth and an optimistic scenario of 2.3%, but the ESRI has three scenarios. It has a stagnation scenario in which the debt issue is not resolved and the growth the Taoiseach hopes for in Europe does not materialise. Why is that stagnation scenario not set out, when IFAC and the troika have said that the...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any objective analysis of the economic scenarios facing us would at least have indicated that this was a possibility. Instead, the Taoiseach has given us an aspiration which may materialise.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A suggestion I gave to the Taoiseach yesterday is that he should go to Europe tomorrow and say that instead of giving them €9 billion next year, we will hold €3 billion and use it to fund a major programme of social house building by the State-----
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Acting Chairman ask the Members opposite to stop interrupting me?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The building of social housing would house the people who have no roofs over their heads and will be homeless over Christmas. It is not funny.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would generate revenue for the State. It would save in terms of social welfare expenditure.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would put people back to work. It would genuinely stimulate the economy and it would pay for itself. The Taoiseach knows the maths. We are paying out half a billion a year, €600 million if we include leasing arrangements to private landlords. That money will come back to the State and we would save money by putting construction workers back to work, allowing them to pay tax. We...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot believe the Taoiseach is heckling me so much.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a suggestion for the Taoiseach. I suggest he does that because his policy is to give tax incentives to property speculators again. I cannot believe it.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is causing a rent bubble in Dublin that is directly contributing to homelessness and is giving monopoly control over property in Dublin to big corporate speculators.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, it beggars belief. Lastly, I have a genuine request. Four hundred workers at Lufthansa are facing the loss of their jobs. Lufthansa is a German company and all the workers want is a fair redundancy package and for a €12 million deficit in their pension scheme to be filled by the company. It made €261 million in profits last year and it has massive accumulated...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Like my colleagues, in all sincerity, I wish the Taoiseach and all other Deputies the best for Christmas and thank the staff for all their hard work. In doing so, I am acutely aware, as I am sure the Taoiseach is, that there are hundreds of thousands in this country who will not really be celebrating Christmas and for whom it will be a tough time, a trial, something to get through rather...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government promised.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the banks? The Taoiseach needs to answer the question he was asked.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Health after the revelations of top up payments in the Central Remedial Clinic, if he intends to hold an investigation into this practice in all agencies and services under the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54100/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the new Health Service Executive service plan, if he will provide a full report on the progress of the implementation on the disability act including an update on the national roll out of network disability teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54099/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the social partners.