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- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Struggling families throughout the county are all too aware of the cruel and impossible cuts and taxes the Government has imposed on them, and that its grim determination to impose this suffering is in order to pay off the debts of bankers and bondholders. Will the Taoiseach explain to me and the nation how, at the same time it imposes this suffering on ordinary people in order to obey the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----refusing their demands for public inquiries to look into the environmental dangers posed by drilling for oil six kilometres off the coast of Dublin Bay? Why is he refusing their demands to look into the benefits - or lack of same - for ordinary citizens of this country of these unprecedented deals with multinational companies? That amount of gas and oil, which is given in detailed...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The estimates come from the oil companies. I brought a little file to hand over to the Taoiseach which details the oil company estimates and shows 90 billion barrels off the west coast and a similar amount found off the rest of the country. At current market prices that is approximately €1.5 trillion worth of estimated gas and oil. If even a small fraction of that is commercially...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just do not grant the licences in Dublin Bay.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Here is the map. There are 87 prospects in specific locations.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the protest against the guillotine being imposed on this issue. In the programme for Government, the Taoiseach promised a democratic revolution, no less, a new type of politics and a new level of accountability. We are discussing a Bill that will touch deeply on the lives and quality of life of vast numbers of our most vulnerable citizens. I appeal to the Taoiseach at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all want to move on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach about his prospects for engagement with outside parties in the context of framing the budget. Is it not the case that, when examining the balance struck in the past two budgets, he has been listening to some groups very seriously and not listening to others? We know from last year that the Clearing House Group, comprising banks and speculators, precisely the sorts of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: State Street is a speculator.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise; it is even closer to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent or planned meeting with social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55523/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent or planned social dialogue with civil society groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55524/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the groups he plans to meet as part of his commitment to social dialogue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55525/12]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People are protesting today and they will be protesting tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. These protestors understand that unlike the Clearing House Group, whose members sit down with officials of the Department of Finance and script the budget for the Government, their voices are not being listened to. Did the Taoiseach read what the ESRI said today? It said that people are trapped in...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the public looking on find this whole spectacle pretty depressing.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not going to do that. The people of this country are not worried about political spats between parties-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of this country are not interested in political spats at the moment, they are interested in survival, a fact confirmed by the ESRI today, which shows that more than one in five households in this country suffers from joblessness and they are doubly and trebly hit by having to support large families and support disability and by being concentrated in low paid work. The report...
- Shannon Airport: Motion (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am opposed to this motion because it will put Shannon Airport under further pressure to maintain itself by facilitating the US military war machine. By removing the most profitable component of Shannon, Aer Rianta International, the airport will be forced to increase its dependence on military traffic from the United States in order to maintain its viability. The Government is aware of...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the measures in place to ensure the safety and welfare of children in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54503/12]