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Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the circumstances in which documents related to the bank guarantee were shredded in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34958/12]

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find the political point scoring between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael extremely amusing------

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ------as they both supported the bank guarantee which, as the Taoiseach rightly said-----

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----was the single most important financial decision taken by any Government in the State's history and which bankrupted the country with disastrous consequences.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am responding to the amusing political games being played.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach certainly has a point. Fianna Fáil has a brass neck to raise the issue; it is beyond belief, but how the Taoiseach can poke fun when he supported the measure is beyond me.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach asked the departmental officials who were present at the time where the records are? It stinks to high heaven that there is no record of this most important decision and the deliberations on it. What investigations has the Taoiseach carried out into the record keeping for that crucial meeting if he is so worried about it?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It stinks to high heaven that there is no record of this most important meeting or the deliberations that led to this disastrous decision. I have pointed out that it is amusing that the Taoiseach is poking fun at Fianna Fáil when his party supported the decision. We all know, as it turned out, that the rationale was shared by Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the European authorities-----

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to protect the banks at all costs and sacrifice the rest of us to pay for it.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Taoiseach is so concerned about the matter, what investigations has he conducted to ascertain whether records were taken by departmental officials or anybody else, especially if he is making the serious suggestion there may have been shredding or the dispatching of these critical records? It is suspicious that there are no records, what is he doing to find out what happened to them,...

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there are pieces of paper, the Taoiseach should publish them.

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach asked the departmental officials?

Departmental Records (17 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we confirm that notes were taken?

Written Answers — Humanitarian Access: Humanitarian Access (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action at a political and diplomatic level he will take to ensure the Sudanese regime allows supplies of food and medicine to reach refugees in Southern Sudan in view of the fact that the Sudanese Government has stopped humanitarian aid reaching refugees since anti-regime protests began; and if he will make a...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 33: In page 45, to delete lines 28 to 43 and in page 46, to delete lines 1 to 22. We are opposed to the switch to linking pensions to the consumer price index. It will leave public sector pensioners worse off in the future. The current scheme includes a guaranteed link between public sector pensions and public service pay. That link is to be broken and pensions are to...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The State squandered it.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister appears to be suggesting that this is favourable from the point of view of future pensioners in that any changes to future entitlements will be upward only. He has stated also that there is nothing about this change about which we should be concerned. However, section 4 - this point has already been made so I will try not to labour it - provides that the Minister shall decide...

Foreign Conflicts (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to correct a comment made earlier. Not all of us are in favour of a two-state solution. Some of us believe the two-state solution is a recipe for ethnic cleansing of precisely the sort we have seen and continue to see by the rogue Israeli State. At what point does the international community realise that Israel is a rogue state, that it is involved in ethnic cleansing, that it has...

Nuclear Proliferation (11 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to make it clear that I have no time for the Iranian regime, nuclear weapons or nuclear power. Can the Minister explain the extraordinary double standards that apply when it comes to the treatment of Iran as against the treatment of Israel? Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians, illegally occupying their land and territory, denying them rights at every level, has launched more...