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- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are school students in the Gallery today. Would Deputy Quinn, as Minister for Education and Skills, advise them to do their exams without having read the textbooks? I bet him he would not-----
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but yet we voted through a Bill----
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that is maybe the most important Bill any of us will ever vote on in our lifetimes and we were not even given a chance to read it.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Again this morning, we did not know what the Order of Business was, we did not know if there were going to be Leaders' Question and I have just got a text on my phone stating that RTE is reporting that a deal has been done and there is no provision for debate on that matter in the Houses of the Oireachtas. That is shameful.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister going to at least allow a discussion on the deal on which I believe the Cabinet is meeting at 2 p.m.? Will he give briefings to the finance spokespeople after that Cabinet meeting to let the elected representatives of this country know what deal the Government is doing with the ECB?
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Your Government.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Green Paper on Defence (7 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline the details of what is contained in the Green Paper on the Future of Ireland's Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/13]
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Where did they come from?
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when the deal the Government has already planned, just as this legislation was clearly written some time ago, is rammed through to pin Anglo Irish Bank's gambling debts permanently, securely and legally to the backs of the Irish people in such a way that we cannot repudiate them. People are saying this is about giving the Minister powers, but it is not just about that - it is the action...
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I urge the people out there that the Government is trying to hoodwink - the nurses, teachers and gardaí, the bulk of our citizens - to take to the streets against this disgraceful attempt to hoodwink them and to unload Anglo Irish Bank's gambling debts on to their backs.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Fianna Fáil Government bankrupted the country with a decision taken in the early hours of the morning, we now know under a diktat of the ECB. Tonight, in the same sort of circumstances, the Government is taking a decision about one of the main culprits of the financial crisis and involving vast amounts of money, also under a diktat of the ECB. The ECB says "jump" and the Government...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, if they do not heckle.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is too serious to be rammed through in this manner where we have not had time, certainly on this side of the House. It is debatable whether the Taoiseach has had a chance to read it - I suspect he has, but certainly we on this side of the House have not. It is absolutely unacceptable that we are expected to be bounced into making a decision on moneys to the tune of more than €40...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need an informed discussion on the Bill. We need a proper un-guillotined debate and we need an opportunity just to read the legislation. The Taoiseach should not do what the previous Government did. The idea that this-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----serious legislation could be rammed through in this way is absolutely shameful politics.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just not on. This State was bankrupted as a result of decisions made in the early hours of the morning and rammed through in precisely the manner the Government is talking about now.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are talking about a Bill that is dealing with assets of over €40 billion from Anglo Irish Bank.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The finance spokespeople were briefed 15 or 20 minutes before this session began. We were rushed through this Bill dealing with €40 billion worth of assets in about 15 minutes.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is seriously suggesting we can make an informed decision-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: During Leaders' Questions on Tuesday last, I suggested to the Taoiseach that the Government was engaged in an elaborate charade designed to draw the media and the public into a heightened sense of anticipation and anxiety on whether the Government was going to get a deal on the promissory note. The carry-on that has been going on in this House tonight makes this absolutely clear. Questions...