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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were many young people involved.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the DUP's leaflets?

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If it is not an elaborate charade, will the Taoiseach confirm for the public that the deal being sought will still involve this State committing to paying every cent plus interest of the cost to bail out Anglo Irish Bank? Is that the deal? Is it only a question of spreading that payment over a longer period and paying more interest over the period? It suits the Government and the Labour...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will the Taoiseach comment on the Tánaiste's reported comments in Chile to the effect that the Government would be "in jeopardy" if it did not get a deal? Is that true? Is the coalition threatened with falling apart if there is no deal? The Deputies look very comfortable beside each other now and it does not look like the Government is in jeopardy.

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this a way of softening public sector workers for the real agenda of the Government and the troika, which is to shove even more austerity down the throats of front-line public sector workers and other citizens in this country at the demand of the troika? If a meaningless deal can be presented as a way of sweetening the bitter pill, the Government will be able to spin its way out of the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Anglo's way.

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Being on the streets would be more effective.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet Northern Ireland leaders in view of recent events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2760/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he has recently discussed corporation tax in Northern Ireland with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2762/13]

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because they were poor.

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I am sure the Taoiseach is acutely aware, and I suspect the Labour Party is even more acutely aware, that tens of thousands of workers and other citizens will be taking to the streets this weekend to oppose the crippling debt that has been imposed on their shoulders-----

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the austerity the Government is meting out to them and to vent their fury at the broken promises of the Government and of the Labour Party in particular that it would all be different. I am sure the Taoiseach also is aware of the anger that now is building up among public sector front-line workers over the Government's plans to savage them even further in a so-called extension of the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----by involving people in this drama of whether Ireland will get a deal on a promissory note when, as the Minister, Deputy Varadkar has indicated, deal or no deal, it makes no difference? Is it not the truth that the Government is not looking for a write-down of the debt, has agreed in principle to pay every cent and that whatever deal it gets will make no difference whatsoever to those...

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Make the big multinationals pay.

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The chairperson of the Dublin City Council finance committee and a number of other councillors have confirmed that there is no doubt that if the property tax is imposed on local authority housing in Dublin City Council, it will be passed on in the form of rent to local authority tenants. The same report was given by council officials in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council at...

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that local authorities will be liable for the property tax with regards to their housing stock, the way he intends local authorities to deal with this; if he will be or has already issued any communication to local authorities in this regard; and his views on whether council tenants should be asked to pay...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Basically the Minister is saying that there will be no change. The Government is failing to acknowledge and take action on what is an enormous crisis facing small and medium enterprises, which the Government itself constantly says will be the driving force and the motor behind our economic recovery. There are 4,000 family-owned businesses in this country employing around 90,000 which are on...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I always have done.

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: James Connolly was always on the side of workers and small businesses. It is the big businesses that are the problem.

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to reduce the burden on small businesses and on low and middle income workers who, by the way, depend on each other. Who does the Minister think spends money in the small and medium-sized businesses on the high street? It is the corporations and the very wealthy, who can hoard their money offshore and avoid their taxes while making enormous profits, who should be made pay a bigger...