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- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not like hearing alternative proposals.
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us believe the alternative is to refuse to pay the gambling debts of bankers, financiers and bondholders and that alternative would substantially reduce the debt burden on the country and our deficit.
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would not. In addition, we need to nationalise our banking system.
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By nationalising, the United Left Alliance means that as well as recapitalising banks, we would actually control their policies. It is amazing that Deputy White and others on the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform bemoan the fact the banks we have recapitalised will not provide adequate finance to small and medium enterprise or give an adequate break to distressed...
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People who are democratically elected by the people, yes.
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Deputy Durkan think it better to have in charge of our banks the same bankers who led us into the crisis and who are paid half a million euro a year?
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We understand.
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We believe the people, through democratically elected representatives, should control the financial system, so that we dictate the lending and investment policies of the banks and so that those policies are directed towards the social good, investment in small and medium enterprise and infrastructural projects, the development of strategic industry and enterprise and all the things that are...
- European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not doing it.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the crippling austerity imposed by the Government on working people-----
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----it has failed to get a deal on the bank debt issue. As a consequence, it is now a racing certainty that we will require a second so-called bailout and be forced into the ESM programme which is nothing more than another but institutionalised EU-IMF austerity programme.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Incredibly, despite that certainty - something even the Government's spokespeople more or less acknowledged in the last week of the referendum debate - the Government refused to have a full debate on the European Stability Mechanism. That is just extraordinary. We could be tied into this ESM and the austerity that will go with it for years because of the failure of the Government's policies...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the Government is imposing a guillotine. This is what we get from a Government that promised more transparency and a new type of democracy - a guillotine is being imposed on the ESM Bill. That is absolutely unacceptable.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The guillotine should be removed on the debate and the public should be allowed to know the full facts about the ESM.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for postponing the new build at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the poor condition of the school buildings since the 1970's; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25920/12]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 May 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to put off the new build at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin until 2015/2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25919/12]
- Electricity Regulation (Carbon Revenue Levy) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (24 May 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We find ourselves in a very difficult position here. I am not happy with the circumstances which led to the need for this Bill to be introduced. We probably have no choice other than to support this legislation. This debate gives us an opportunity to highlight some serious issues. I would like to make a few points and ask a few questions to help me to understand fully what is going on....
- Electricity Regulation (Carbon Revenue Levy) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (24 May 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need investment funds.
- Electricity Regulation (Carbon Revenue Levy) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (24 May 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The current.