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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the witness's view of the IMF's recent statement that the negative multiplier effect on the economy is three times worse than it and the Department believed? We have €8.6 billion in cuts to make over the next three years and the IMF has indicated if growth is 1% less than projected - it may be worse than that - there will be another €1 billion per year in required cuts....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We shall see. If the multiplier proposed turns out to be the general figure, our debt position would be unsustainable. Mr. Moran believes that it is currently sustainable. An unsustainable level will require a much larger level of cuts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will find out which is the case. What role does the Department have in the Clearing House Group and what lobbying has come from commercial and private interests with regard to the financial transaction tax and the attitude towards corporation tax? Does Mr. Moran have any thoughts on the potential revenues forgone by not imposing a financial transaction tax and on the very low effective...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it Mr. Moran's advice to the Government that we should not touch it? Does he have any thoughts-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It came from the answers given by the Department.
- Topical Issue Debate: Teaching Qualifications (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that the Minister of State is working from a prepared script, which is fair enough, but I need him to address the issue. I understand the current position, but a dispensation is necessary. In the case I raised, and I suspect many others, the necessity of registering was not clear to teachers in 2006. A large number of teachers who have been working for many years, who possess...
- Topical Issue Debate: Teaching Qualifications (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not being critical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have loads of questions and there definitely will not be time for the Secretary General to answer them all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, exactly. He should come back soon. In the Secretary General's opening statement, he set out five goals. In fairness, they probably really could be narrowed down to two goals. Two of the goals pertain to meeting the troika debt and deficit targets and balancing the public finances, while the other ones are about jobs, growth, investment and improved living standards. Is it not the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Secretary General has been very efficient in implementing the cuts to meet the deficit targets. Hats off to him on his success in this regard. Objectively, however, and this is not a matter of opinion, living standards have not risen, employment has not increased and growth has not occurred. In fact, the Department has been obliged to downgrade its growth forecast, even within the last...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Moran's predecessor, then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Statement of Strategy 2011-2014: Discussion with Department of Finance (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not labour the point except to state it surely is the case that under the improved living standards and employment criteria the Department has set for itself, it has not delivered as there is no sign whatsoever of progress on those two fronts.
- Topical Issue Debate: Teaching Qualifications (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am optimistic this issue is an oversight or an anomaly that the Government can rectify. It should not cost money to do so, which should provide some relief, as it is simply a matter of trying to sort out a problem faced by teachers, particularly those in vocational education committees. It was brought to my attention by teachers in the VEC in Dún Laoghaire but I understand it may...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battlegroups (7 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of the Irish Army participation in the EU Battle Groups; the cost allocated for training and participation if they are actually dispatched to take part in a war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44912/12]
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Minister vote in favour of the amendment?
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Report Stage (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, both People Before Profit and the United Left Alliance are utterly opposed to this Bill and the commitments into which it locks this country essentially to pay off the gambling debts of banks and bondholders across Europe for years to come in a way that we believe will amount to a near death sentence for the economy in the medium term and really choke off any...
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the new requirements for teachers working in VECs to be members of the Teaching Council. While this is proper regulation that has been introduced, it has meant that some teachers working in VECs for many years but who did not have degrees-----
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----now are faced with the loss of their jobs because they cannot join the Teaching Council, which will not accept them as members.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government considering legislation to deal with this anomaly-----
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----who worked for years in VECs and now face job losses because-----