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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the aftermath of the financial crash that hit this country and the global economy, is there any discussion about the morality of some of the activities that go on at the International Financial Services Centre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking whether they discuss the morality of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying there are many people who question the morality of some of the activities that go on in places like the Irish Financial Services Centre, including shadow banking, derivatives, futures and, essentially, financial speculation, given the role that they had in destabilising the global economy and indeed the role they continue to play in maintaining a high level of instability in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Fraser not believe it would be appropriate to have people in the Clearing House Group who might have an eye to the dangers involved in this sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am beginning to wonder what the private sector representatives say at these meetings. The minutes seem to suggest they say virtually nothing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to a point that was made earlier. It would appear from what Mr. Fraser has said that all the real discussions are being moved off to the side to these subgroups. Mr. Fraser does not seem to know as much about them and he is unsure whether there are written reports. He said he believes there are written reports but he is unsure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one final question. Mr. Fraser has accepted that the Clearing House Group represents high-level access for the financial services sector or the corporate sector to the Government. The statement of strategy for the Department declares that some of the Department's priorities and the Government's stated priorities are fairness, transparency and so on. Has there been any discussion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there no discussion around the need for such access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As other speakers noted, Mr. Fraser cannot discuss some of the issues that must be addressed. For this reason, we need to have before us Ministers and representatives of the large corporate players which are at the centre of the growing controversy around Ireland's purported status as a tax haven. Many of us believe this country is a tax haven and this view is widely held outside the...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the information the Minister has given and his commitment to dealing with these issues. They are applicable not only to the workers at Connolly Footwear, but also those at La Senza, Vita Cortex, Jane Norman and many others. I hope the Minister can prove in the measures he proposes to take that we have a machinery that is capable of delivering justice for workers who are unfairly...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will reply to two direct representations (details supplied), representing four former employees of Connolly shoes in Dun Laoghaire who are now in their fourth year of a dispute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24468/13]

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is more than three years since four workers were unfairly dismissed and left without redundancy or wages owed to them by Connolly shoes in Dún Laoghaire, a firm which they had worked for, in some cases, over 30 years. They were dumped on the scrap heap by an unscrupulous employer. The LRC and the EAT, as the Minister said, have found on every...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not labour the debate. We differ in our views on it but I will respond once more to the points the Minister made and will leave it at that. If I understand him correctly, the Minister seems to be acknowledging that there is a link between the last minute bringing forward of these amendments and the proximity of the G8 summit. I find that timing a serious matter of concern, in...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments are an abuse of process as they have nothing to do with the original Bill which deals with money laundering and financing terrorism in what the Minister described as a technical Bill. It is debatable as to whether it is a technical Bill but it certainly has nothing to do with these amendments. Amendments which fundamentally change the Bill’s character and involve...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, will the Acting Chairman confirm that we are being asked to accept the motion in order to allow these amendments to be introduced on Report Stage?

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is the one who has a conspiracy theory about terrorist threats.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not let me finish, a Cheann Comhairle.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (22 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making a point of order.