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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was reported earlier in the year that the amount spent on the Presidency of the Council of the European Union would be €70 million, which is twice what the Danish Presidency paid. Does the Taoiseach believe that is acceptable when we are talking about further cruel cuts to low- and middle-income workers, including firefighters, gardaí and nurses, many of whom will probably be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Twice what the Danes spent.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the oldest negotiating trick in the world to start negotiations by demanding the absolutely unmanageable and then falling back with a few concessions and trying to present them as palatable? No doubt, that is a negotiating trick that the former union officials such as the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Tánaiste taught the Taoiseach from their...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about taxing corporations?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the involvement he will have in the running of the EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2756/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of his Department's budget that has been allocated to hosting the EU Presidency; if he will provide a breakdown of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2758/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the meetings he is involved in as part of the EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2759/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings, if any, he has had while in Strasbourg in January and if he will report on these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2763/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Van Rompuy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5486/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if the issue of unemployment in Ireland and the Eurozone was discussed at his meeting with European Council President Van Rumpuy in Dublin in January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8566/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issue of Ireland's legacy bank debt with Jose Manuel Barroso at the meeting with him on 10 January 2013 [9965/13]

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the details of the new Croke Park deal become clear, it is evident this Government is going to continue its vendetta against low and middle income public sector workers, who have seen between 15% and 20% of their income cut over recent years. With levies and the universal social charge, they have given up €1.5 billion in savings, shed thousands of public sector jobs and seen their...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach back off and impose the burden of this crisis on the corporations on which he will not even impose a slight extra bit of tax, or on the very wealthy earning in excess of €100,000 year?

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Go after those who can afford it, not the same targets again and again.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the recent oil/gas find in Ballyroe, County Kerry and the possible find off the coast of Northern Ireland and the evidence this provides that significant gas and oil deposits exist in Irish waters, if he is considering changes in the licensing and tax regime surrounding gas and oil exploration; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the exploration licence granted to a company (details supplied) to prospect off the coast of Dublin complies with the Aarhus Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9990/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Service Overtime (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will state his policy that is in place in the event of failure to secure agreement in national discussions with trade unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4040/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (26 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will keep this Deputy informed of any applications from a company (details supplied) to commence exploration for oil/gas in its exploration licence area off the Dublin coast. [9997/13]

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tanáiste, as leader of the Labour Party on the hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Lockout, is it not a monstrous betrayal by the Labour Party of the traditions of that party and its founder, James Connolly, to be asking further pay cuts of nurses whose take home pay is approximately €25,000 per year-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or newly-qualified teachers whose take home pay is €21,000 per year-----