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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about targets for dealing with the unemployment crisis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on, Minister. That is just disingenuous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister got a target for reducing unemployment to 5%, for example? Does he have a timescale for that? Has he got a target for saying we are going to get from 430,000 unemployed to 100,000 unemployed over a specific number of years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In his introduction, the Minister said the theme of the Irish Presidency was stability, jobs and growth. I am focusing on the two latter elements, jobs and growth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Minister spoke about in his introduction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In his introduction-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Vice Chairman would allow me to use up the time in the way I choose, I am asking why, if the theme of the Irish Presidency is jobs and growth, the Minister does not put it to European finance ministers that we need to be more specific on targets for generating growth and employment across Europe in the same way as they are specific about imposing targets for deficit and debt reduction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if the Minister had targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read it. It is waffle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Listening to the Minister's response, I get a sinking feeling of the sort one might have had if one had watched Nero fiddle while Rome burned. His assessment that we are making progress and the process is working, whether in this country or more generally in Europe, is not one that would be shared by the vast majority of people in this country, the rest of Europe and, increasingly,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the European Commission recently indicated that unemployment will be higher than anticipated and the European economy is moving into a second quarter of recession?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware that growth in service exports has counterbalanced the decline in manufacturing exports but I put it to the Minister that when a country’s manufacturing begins to decline it is in serious trouble. In recent years, when we pointed to the weakness in the domestic economy the Minister repeatedly stated that, provided we remained competitive, our thriving exports, most of which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Now, precisely as we predicted, the austerity applied in Ireland and subsequently extended to the rest of Europe is causing the European market to contract and this contraction is hitting our manufacturing sector. Is the Minister seriously suggesting that the contraction that is taking place in the rest of the European economy will not impact on Ireland or choke off exports, the sector the...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has studied the international experience of privatisation of public forests, particularly in New Zealand and the brief experiment in Sweden, in his consideration of the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21882/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte is unlikely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21884/13]
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Waterford Crystal workers, in their battle to get justice over the collapse of their pension fund, won an important ruling in the European Court of Justice that has major implications for them and the issue of pensions generally. Does the Government have legislative plans to respond to the implications of the landmark case? Is it the intention of the Government to meet the...
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers would rather meet the Government.
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And the Taoiseach is peddling his myths at length.