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Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We rant and the Government obfuscates.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To blackmail ourselves.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will put a gun to our own head.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are still trying to get an answer to the question.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just answer the question.

Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the issue of Providence Resources application for a foreshore licence to drill for oil and gas in Dublin Bay has been referred to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and Wicklow County Council as per remarks (details supplied) in Dáil Éireann on 28 February; if he will also refer...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the way he is safeguarding the future of marginalised and vulnerable communities in view of the number of persons employed in the community sector, delivering essential services, which has fallen from 53,098 in 2008 to 48,320 in 2011 and is set to fall to 41,948 in 2013 and 36,638 in 2015; and if he will...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Clare Daly. I heard the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, say earlier that some of us on this side of the House, including those in the United Left Alliance and some other Independents, in criticising the plans to sell State assets and continue the cuts to the public service, were genuine but misguided. Let me turn that back...

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All the Deputy needs do is look at the services.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disaster.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My phone has not stopped ringing as people cannot get their medical cards.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not the staff's fault. The Deputy should answer my phone for a while.

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the wealthy.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's proposal to sell off State assets and natural resources is the ultimate betrayal of the country and its citizens' economic future and heritage to protect the interests of bankers and speculators. It amounts to robbing the country and its citizens of the national resources and means through which we could have an opportunity to work our way towards economic recovery and...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much more strategic does it get than the ability of the State to produce its own energy? It does not get more fundamental than that. If we do not have energy, we have nothing. To say giving that away does not represent a giveaway of a vital strategic asset is beyond belief. I would like, however, to focus on forests. Like Deputy Donnelly, I was brought up in Dún Laoghaire and Wicklow...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is going to manage and control it?

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by all parties.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The money is not going to the Greek people.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not getting the money.