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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. I did not know. It is wrong to railroad this legislation through the House in just a few hours. The Government should allow for a proper debate. Instead, this is a continuation of the sucking up to Angela Merkel despite the fact that no matter how much the Government does so, she slaps it down and humiliates it. She is giving it nothing. When will the Government realise...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation faced by those in Priory Hall and Belmayne and those whose houses were constructed with material containing pyrite is appalling. This is not just about the tragic effects that has had on the residents, although the motion asks the Government to declare it will take the lead in providing the resources necessary to undertake the remedial works or transfers necessary to house...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had planned to say certain things but I must respond to Deputy White.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The idea that it was the arguments of the "No" side that led to the passing of the referendum is an interesting analysis. It gives little credit to the arguments of the "Yes" side and is not borne out by the facts. The polls showed that the percentages on the "Yes" and "No" sides did not shift from the beginning of the campaign to the end. It looks as though the arguments pretty much...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will get to that.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The "Yes" posters emblazoned investment and recovery and stability. Certainty was a slogan. That was a fairytale. There is no stability.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not promise stability, at least not in the short run. The Government should not have promised it, but having promised stability, it should deliver it. One would have to be living in a parallel universe to imagine that a decision taken last Thursday or the rushing through of the ESM would lead to stability. Can Deputy Durkan stand over that? There is rampant and well-founded...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a widespread belief that if Greece exits, as a result of being bullied out of the eurozone because it is not willing to accept more of the poisonous austerity that has done such damage, the result will be catastrophic for the wider eurozone and could spell the beginning of the end of the eurozone. That is very likely. It is also likely that a Greek exit would tip the eurozone...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Certainty was repeated again and again. We do not have certainty of funding. There is no security.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course Deputy Durkan is upset.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: He does not like being disagreed with. I understand that. He will have his chance.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind Deputy White that the United Left Alliance clearly set out an alternative. Sooner or later that alternative will be debated, when the austerity agenda crashes further into crisis, as it is destined to do and as the foundations of the eurozone are shaken further by the disastrous strategy being pursued by Angela Merkel.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, and I will say it again: default, default, default.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Durkan's sound economics-----

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?