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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite this, the Government proposes to continue with the same austerity. The Taoiseach is living in fantasy land in terms of his speaking about investment in jobs when there are 33,000 fewer jobs than last year in the economy, there is less overall investment than there was a few years ago and ordinary people are being hammered, with their living standards and purchasing power, along with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should tell them that if they do not write down the debt, which was incurred by speculators and imposed on the people of Ireland, we will not pay them next year, that we will give them until that time to write down the debt and that, otherwise, we will no longer play ball, thus standing up and defending the interests of Irish citizens and working people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I said we would have a primary surplus as of next year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is positive, of course.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I acknowledge that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe I am the one with whom they are disillusioned.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is my fault now rather than that of Fianna Fáil or the Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Deputy be joining the protest?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will he admit the truth and stand up in Europe to defend the interests of ordinary people in this country?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation is too serious for the Taoiseach to try to trivialise serious questions and serious debate with talk about fantasy economics. What has not been officially acknowledged by the IMF-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that the IMF has now officially acknowledged that its forecasts were the fantasies? These were the forecasts on which the Government based its policies because the troika demanded it. The growth which the troika predicted has not materialised because of the crucifying level of austerity imposed on our people and economy. Not only has it not materialised in Ireland, the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At this stage I am not sure whether the Taoiseach is being humiliated by the powers that be in the European Union or if he is playing some grand trick on the people with promises of debt relief and also some relief on the crippling burden imposed by the European Union in order to protect the bankers and bondholders when he knows well we are getting nothing. Whatever the truth of the matter,...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Taoiseach will correct the record of the Dáil when I show him and the media the evidence that what he said was misleading the Dáil. I had never seen and certainly had no hand in writing the e-mail to which the Taoiseach referred.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, he did not.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not. That e-mail-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I discovered afterwards from the parents in the Visitors Gallery that the e-mail was sent by the parents themselves to the director of services at Dunmore House. It had nothing to do with me.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has misled the public and the Dáil.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In it they expressed their anger that they had contacted the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, the week before and he had not responded. He later refused a meeting which the parents wanted.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The question I asked the Taoiseach was about the cuts in hours for home helps and the moves to privatise the home help service. Does he not think it is a very serious conflict of interest to have somebody who was working for a private company, which is involved in the provision of for-profit health care services, now advising the Minister to privatise the home help services to the benefit of...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention the individual, a Cheann Comhairle.