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- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach and ask him to respond-----
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Leaders' Questions ran over time.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the case that any perceived short-term advantage - the Government has not given any statistics or figures to back up the assertion that jobs will be lost in the Irish financial services sector - by essentially blocking the imposition of a financial transactions tax on the financial markets in Europe will amount ot a pyrrhic victory because it will make the position more volatile?...
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach responded to Deputy Martin-----
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and mine was a supplementary on his response to Deputy Martin.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No one answered that question.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because he agrees with the Taoiseach. That is why it is a valid question.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach intend joining the rest of Europe in doing it?
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was here.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So there will never be a financial transaction tax here.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Wait until it goes back.
- Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pleased to hear the Minister's last few phrases about the need to get back to having citizens involved in decisions that affect them. When he is deliberating on local government reform will he consider not only the need to devolve power back to local authorities but, wherever possible, devolving power, decision making and participation to the citizens? There has been considerable...
- Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I told them not to clap.
- Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about a public inquiry?
- Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of any environmental impact assessments that have been carried out with regard to an application by a company (details supplied) for a foreshore licence to drill for oil 6 km off the coast of Dalkey Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5755/12]
- Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 35: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will call for a public inquiry about the application by a company (details supplied) for a foreshore licence to drill for oil 6 km off Dalkey Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5754/12]
- Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (2 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Spring stated that the overall financial context in which the health service plan has been introduced is not related to the payment of bonds. The implication is that the problem to be resolved is the deficit. It is important to challenge this notion. While many of the bonds have been paid, the cost of doing so has been transferred to the sovereign debt. Nationalising bankers'...
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the continuing ill-treatment of the La Senza workers at the hands of KPMG and I wrote to him about it as requested. I got further calls today informing me that their P45s were-----
- Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----not done properly by KPMG and have been refused by Revenue. In that context there is an urgent need to introduce industrial relations legislation to prevent such shoddy treatment of workers. Given all that has happened in recent weeks, does the Government plan to introduce new industrial relations legislation to prevent the kind of mistreatment of workers we have seen with the La Senza...