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Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am an urban Deputy from Dún Laoghaire but I commend the Save Our National Schools campaign and all the parents, teachers and children who have come from all over the country, including Leitrim and Donegal, to fight and defend their small schools. I say to them, lest they be depressed at the responses they have heard from the Government side, that they should keep up their fight because...

Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should state he supports the Bill.

Semi-State Sector Remuneration (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the pay level set in 2011 for the starting salary for the chief executive of a commercial State company was breached for in the incoming chief executive of the VHI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32449/12]

Semi-State Sector Remuneration (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with the Minister on the last point - the nauseating hypocrisy of Independent Newspapers. I do not mind naming it. The company was previously owned by one tax exile and is now owned by another tax exile and is paying executives obscene amounts of money and then attacking other people who are earning far less. That is sickening in the extreme. The context for most people for this...

Semi-State Sector Remuneration (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was €411,000.

Semi-State Sector Remuneration (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pleased that the Minister has acknowledged the injustice people feel at this decision, and how it is inexplicable to most people that someone would demand a €50,000 increase above and beyond €191,000 for doing the job. What does not satisfy me about the Minister's response is why we have allowed it. I do not see what special abilities or talents can justify the decision or that...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was considerable fanfare last week and much talk of a breakthrough following the deal at the European Council meeting. There was a lot of self-congratulation about what had been achieved by the Government and the EU leaders. We heard similar talk from the troika, whom we met this morning, about this great breakthrough. People in this country have heard these expressions on many...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so those in the Visitors' Gallery are aware, every time a Deputy from the Technical Group gets up to speak, the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, plays with her phone and talks to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is indicative of the contempt the Government has for the Opposition. The Visitors' Gallery, which is full right now, should understand that this is generally the approach of...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State fairly accurately characterised socialism in the context of the current crisis as being about putting state or public money directly into job creation. Will the Minister of State indicate what is wrong with that?

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, socialism is about putting public money into job creation and if I understand the Government's policy correctly, it is about putting public money into banks. We have billions of euro for the banks, and that is seen as being sensible and rational, but the idea - God help us - to put the same money into job creation is the most extreme nonsensical idea in the world. It is bizarre...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just did so. Is it not the case that the Government's policy amounts to borrowing billions of euro, which we cannot afford, to put the money into private banks? Why does the Government continue to do this when the strategy has demonstrably failed? Banks will not lend, no matter how much recapitalisation they get, and at a European level, they are not investing. Will the Minister of...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We had the money for that.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought we were disentangling these issues.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not getting money from the banks.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all in the banks.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's efforts are not working either.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question on the ESM.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have dodged another one.

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (3 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with Fáilte Ireland in the interests of promoting tourism, to ensure that there is no cut to the opening hours of the James Joyce Museum at the Martello Tower in Sandycove; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32101/12]