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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [51154/23]
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has a requirement. What is it going to do? Otherwise it is guilty of allowing the most obscene crime possible, which is genocide, take place.
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have four days from the commencement of the truce to stop the resumption of the massacre and slaughter that Israel has told us it is going to resume as soon as that truce expires. The question to the Government is what it or the international community are going to do to prevent the resumption of the massacre and slaughter that Netanyahu, his ministers and his military commanders have...
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste has no response on the genocide.
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about genocide?
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — that long before the current horrific escalation of violence by Israel in Gaza and increasingly in the West Bank, multiple human rights organisations had issued damning reports stating that Israelwas guilty of multiple breaches of international law and crimes against humanity in their treatment of Palestinians; — in that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By what year did Mr. Gilvarry say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to go in five minutes. Could I have five minutes now, if Deputy Conway-Walsh and the Chair do not mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that. I want to ask about the banks and the ISIF money. There is €6 billion of the ISIF money in the banks. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That contains the bank shares.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the witnesses remind me how much there was in banks before we started to sell off the shares in the banks that we had nationalised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was about €20 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As we sold off those shares did that money just go back to normal Government expenditure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It came back to central funding. Are we getting dividends from our shares in the banks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of money are we getting from AIB?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A couple of hundred million, but it would have been more presumably.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, €300 million. Perhaps Governments have made announcements on this or perhaps not, but is it projected that the other €6 billion in shares is going to be sold off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so that I understand, is it the case that once it is all sold off, there will be no more dividends coming in? This money is being transferred over to a fund. Which fund is it? Is it the infrastructure fund or both?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Have we done a cost-benefit analysis on that? I am just curious. It is obviously Government policy but I wonder what the benefit is. Dividends are going to stop coming in. I am not tracking bank shares at the moment but the value of bank shares are going up because they are making super-profits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the meantime, is it the case that before we sell off those shares, they are going to go into one of these new funds?