Results 23,661-23,680 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. When this compact was first presented, the emphasis was almost entirely on debt and deficit reduction. These are the key targets defined in the treaty. However, pressure from popular opinion, protests and alternative analyses by economists has slowly but surely started to shift the powers that be from their sole focus on debt and deficit targets while ignoring the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pirates' cabal.
- Order of Business (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not forget Loughlinstown.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just used the term "How is it", which implies a question. How is it that these people can have seven or eight meetings-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, how is it that the financiers and speculators to whom I refer can have eight meetings at the highest level with the Taoiseach and with top civil servants while the representatives of the 450,000 people who are unemployed cannot do so? Why are the representatives of hundreds of thousands of workers not invited to such meetings in order to discuss the problems those people...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is facilitating tax piracy and financial pirates at every juncture, while the ordinary workers of this country are continually hammered when austerity is demanded by the troika.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is already doing a good job in that regard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Since September. I am concerned with the position for the entire year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach indicated that it met on six previous occasions earlier in the year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of those who work in it did so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The clearing house group and its unprecedented relationship to Government and top civil servants, as described by the Taoiseach, begins to look like Ireland's dirty little secret when taken together with our extremely low corporation tax and the Taoiseach's unwillingness even to look at the issue of financial transaction tax. Is it not amazing that although the Taoiseach slavishly submits to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): IFSC Clearing House Group (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Financial Services Clearing House Group has met and the issues they discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48419/12]
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to address the issue of student poverty as a result of inadequate grants and the racheting up of registration fees.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is the students' fault.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While the merry-go-round of futile EU summits that continue to yield nothing and the hot air about recovery and reform spews out of this building-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----ordinary, innocent people are being crushed by the austerity the Government and the troika are imposing. The latest victims of this austerity are young people and students who are being driven into poverty and despair. Thousands of students who desperately need grants to survive in third level education remain without them.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are unable to pay the registration fees which the Government is ratcheting up every year, access hardship funds or pay rent. Many of them are now being forced to make a choice between paying their rent and paying for food.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week I attended a meeting with USI, at which we were told about a student whose breakfasts, lunches and dinners for the week were one packet of pasta and a bottle of tomato ketchup. That is outrageous. If the students manage to survive through college, they will be faced with unemployment and emigration when they finish. Will the Taoiseach admit this crisis for the young people and...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened but there was nothing in it.