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Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he raised with the US President at their recent meeting; the responses he received from the President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16432/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will give details of his main achievements on his recent visit to the US and meetings with the US President and others during the visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16433/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the Eurozone crisis and the slow down in growth in the European economy with the US President at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16434/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the recent massacre by US troops of 16 Afghan civilians during his recent meeting with President Obama; and if so, the response he received from the President on this matter. [16435/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of Iran with the US President at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16436/12]

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach the other Irish businessmen and individuals that were also present during his recent visit to the US stock exchange; the basis on which they were selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16437/12]

Written Answers — Action Plan for Jobs: Action Plan for Jobs (7 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific programmes he has to promote employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24036/12]

European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With the agreement of the House, I will share time with Deputies Joan Collins and Joe Higgins. It is an absolute disgrace that the Government has imposed a guillotine on the debate on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012. It is particularly disgraceful when the Government has, effectively, admitted that we are heading towards a second so-called bailout when we emerge from the...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It beggars belief that the Tánaiste is trying to push through the legislation on the ESM in a single day. He cannot say with hand on his heart that he believes the people, or most Deputies, have fully debated and understand the content of the European Stability Mechanism Bill and the severe consequences it may have for them, given that, even by the Government's admission in the past week or...

Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To guillotine the debate on Second Stage.

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not la-la economics. It is about setting the strategic priorities and enforcing them on the banking system.

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not doing it.

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the money going in? Why are small and medium enterprises screaming week in, week out about how they are being starved of credit by the banks that we have recapitalised? Why are they screaming if it is all working swimmingly?

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why have trillions been put into the European banking system and still the money is not going back into the European economy, which is being suffocated? The European economy is contracting and there is a major strike of private sector investment which has collapsed across Europe. Those are the facts. When are we going to wake up and assert control over the banking system which we have...

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In response to what Deputy White said, when people ask where is the money, has he not noticed what we have been doing-----

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for the past two or three years? The money is in the banks because we put it into them.

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The money is in the banks.

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. The money is in the banks and it is about time we used it for the social good and the development of the economy and society. Furthermore, we have argued there must be a more general redistribution of wealth in society because it is concentrated in the hands of a small minority who are either not spending the money or not investing it in the economy. Figures emerged in recent weeks...

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We must short circuit that situation and get control of those resources. That means tackling the wealth through corporation tax, taxes on financial transactions and taxing the obscene wealth of a tiny minority who control disproportionate amounts of wealth and reinvesting it in society and in the economy. In contrast to that - a genuinely alternative approach to organising our economy - our...

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At least the Government was honest when it said there was nothing new in the treaty. That is exactly the point. That is precisely why we opposed it, because there is nothing new and it is carrying on along the same train tracks of austerity that have led us into this mess in the first place.