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- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 100,000 people are employed on its woodlands compared with 11,000 in Ireland. Those numbers will be further reduced when the Government sells off the trees to private interests which see them only as a cash crop that will make a quick buck. They have no interest in maintaining them as woodlands or developing the woodland industry to create jobs. That is the point I am making.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that one of the companies that is in the bidding to buy our forests is a Swiss bank, a subsidiary of which is headed up by Bertie Ahern.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That company understands the value of our forests because it knows how to manage them properly. Why does the Government not keep them in public ownership, to generate the jobs that could put our people back to work, instead of selling them off to asset strippers who want only to cash in and have no intention of creating jobs or revenue for the State?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the same payment the Tánaiste and his colleagues receive under the party allowance.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is factually incorrect.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a point of order.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish a happy Christmas to all of the Deputies in the House, all of those who work here and to the public outside. I wish to ask the Tánaiste a "Christmasy" question.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the aspects that I love about Christmas, and I suspect that many do, is the Christmas tree. Most families in this country will have a Christmas tree in their homes. It is like having a little piece of Ireland's woodlands in the sitting room over Christmas. When one is surrounded by family, friends and the community, it is a time around the Christmas tree when people consider those...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Money does not grow on the trees that are in people's front rooms during Christmas.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, does the Tánaiste agree with me that money and jobs grow on those trees on Coillte lands and that, when our country is being crucified with unemployment, austerity and cuts, it is a crime against the nation that the Government is planning to sell our nation's trees to private interests when those trees could generate thousands of desperately needed jobs and revenue for the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (20 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process involved in the appointment of a person (details supplied) as legal advisor to the Government Reform Unit and Statute Law Revision Programme Director of his Department; the nature of the financial arrangement with this advisor including costs per hour or per day; if he will provide in tabular form, the amounts invoiced by this...
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Halligan for tabling this motion and recognising in it the incalculable service which carers provide to our society and to some of the most vulnerable in it. I must say I am a bit bemused, and with no personal disrespect to the Minister of State, as to why the Minister of State with responsibility for small business is taking a motion on carers. One would have expected at the...
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very telling comment-----
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which in a way reinforces one of the main points I want to make. There is no economic rationale or logic to justify making life worse for carers and consequently making life worse for those for whom they care, some of the most vulnerable people in our society. There are no words anyone in the House can say to do justice to the heroic and selfless work done by carers. The working week,...
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the United Left Alliance, I wish to express our concern and disappointment. In general terms, we all want to achieve some relief for those in mortgage distress or who are otherwise stuck under the burden of significant personal indebtedness. There is a genuine desire across the House to do something about that, but it is disappointing that we have not gone a hell of a lot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody is responsible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every member of the joint committee has expressed a frustration which represents the public view on mortgage relief and, though we did not go into it, lending to SMEs. We have invested a great deal in the banks and the public is getting very little in return. I ask the witnesses to disregard their current roles and to tell us objectively who is responsible for bringing about the change...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister tell Permanent TSB to write down the debt to sustainable levels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So we have hundreds of people wading through, trying to figure out on a case-by-case basis what is sustainable and what the bank considers acceptable. Enormous resources are being wasted on that.