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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Ministers?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we take the questions first and then get the Taoiseach to reply?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the schedule of meetings for the Economic Management Council before the budget. [40915/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met. [42213/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We built box apartments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We no longer have clerks of works.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not that we lack optimism about the future when we ask these questions, rather it is that some of us and members of the public are fed up to the back teeth of warning against certain behaviour and activity by developers, and the bankers and Governments who facilitate them, and never being listened to. Regardless of how many times these warnings are issued, be it by political...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach knows it well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They did better that Tom McFeely. Obviously, those cases involved smaller houses. There is no reason the construction industry, in the provision of public and private housing, should not have integrity and enjoy trust. One cannot paint everybody in the National Asset Management Agency and all developers and contractors with the same brush. Clearly, the McFeely episode, which was a disaster...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on mortgage arrears last met. [42212/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give an assurance that measures he may take in budget 2014 will not lead to any further increases in class sizes in view of the fact that classrooms here already contain 20% more than the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the delay in a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin that has been in prefabs since 1995 and who had expected to be in a new building since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42186/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) may expect new buildings in view of the fact that they have been in prefabs since 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41961/13]

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pre-budget consultation.

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister examine sectors he has not examined before?

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a decimal point on the deficit?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know about that.

Other Questions: Budget 2014 Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us believe we should tell the markets to take a hike and not pay the €8 billion in interest on a debt that is mostly not ours. Will he confirm that the figure is €8 billion? The Minister is hell-bent on going for the 5.1% target, which means either €2.8 billion or €2.9 billion in cuts. Most people do not care about the difference between the two figures...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There might be some spare money under Tom McFeely's bath.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I believe it is in the Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn's constituency.