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- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an amendment.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What? Since when? Will somebody explain this?
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I-----
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want clarification on what the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said. It is a regular occurrence in the Chamber that the Government deletes the entirety of a Private Members' motion and replaces it with something that completely negates the motion as tabled by the Opposition and this is allowed consistently. However, in this case we are being told one is not allowed do this. I ask for...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But-----
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I also wish to point out the thrust of the Bill purports to be some level of democratic reform of the institution of the IMF. My amendment proposes to achieve exactly the same end, namely, democratic reform of the IMF, through different means. It replaces the various measures proposed in the draft Bill with another measure designed precisely to achieve democratic reform...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want an explanation as why it is out of order.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government, in my opinion, has been extremely dishonest in how it has presented the Bill. On Second and Committee Stages and whenever it has commented on the Bill, it has suggested it is purely a technical Bill. It is not a technical Bill. Its measures arise out of an intensely political response by the IMF to a crisis of legitimacy it has suffered since its disastrous policies in the...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, will the names of those Members who opposed the Bill be recorded?
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed with Mr David Cameron the issue of the proposed financial transactions tax and the possible implications for the City of London and the IFSC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6590/12]
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps we could also deal at this point with Question No. 9.
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to return to the financial transactions tax. This is one of the instances in which people from the United Left Alliance have a very different view from the political establishment on both sides of the House. I am amazed that in a situation where Europe faces its gravest economic crisis since the 1930s and this country faces its gravest economic crisis in its history - we all know the...
- Official Engagements (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All other speakers were allowed to continue and I am nearly finished.
- 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.