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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary question on that subject. Did the possibility of a full-scale nationalisation ever enter the heads of the administrators?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That would be a Government decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Lastly, what of the fees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I extend my best wishes to the Chairman on his new role. I hope the delegation will agree that this is a pretty sickening episode in the pretty awful recent history of this country. On top of all the other crises concerning the banks and financial system, we have the mess in Quinn Insurance. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary families and householders are on the hook again, this time for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to contain my indignation. The false declaration of losses as profits and the reckless mismanagement that underlay this practice are pretty criminal by any public or objective standard. What is the Central Bank doing or what can it do to pursue the money that was handed out to the Quinn family? If I understand the delegates correctly, they are saying they had not adequately got...
- Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach will be aware, the mortgage crisis faced by approximately 160,000 households in this country is one of the most pressing issues facing this country. In the context of the Personal Insolvency Bill coming back for its final Stages, will the Taoiseach release the information that Mr. Simon Carswell of The Irish Times indicated the Government was refusing to give out-----
- Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----about banks lobbying the Government-----
- Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on the Personal Insolvency Bill before we discuss the final Stages?
- Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was only asking for information on property legislation being discussed.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because the Taoiseach has slashed the budgets of local authorities.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not going for services but to pay the troika.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was entirely disingenuous then.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to maintain frontline services in view of his plans for targeted voluntary redundancies in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43422/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record of the House, if the Taoiseach had read the report in The Irish Times from an independent journalist who was present, she made it absolutely clear that members of People Before Profit stood back, protested peacefully and were not involved in the activities to which the Taoiseach refers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should make it clear for the record of the House. Is it not the case that the Taoiseach is trying to predetermine the agenda of the constitutional convention and steer it away from any of the serious and substantial issues about political reform that need to be discussed by deciding in advance what issues it will discuss and what shall be at the top of the agenda, rather than...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refuted your allegation that we were involved. You should be gracious enough-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it being abolished or privatised?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the constitutional convention not a complete, utter and deliberate distraction from the real issues about which people are concerned? It is mere window-dressing to distract from the Government and the troika careering ahead with wholesale privatisation, cuts and austerity. The constitutional convention is supposed to deal with political reform. Given that the Government is privatising,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely not true. The Taoiseach should read the report in The Irish Times.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.