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- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I submitted this matter twice this week.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a cut in their pay.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We were talking about the guys who dictated lending policy.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We were talking about the guys at the top who were guilty of reckless lending.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is dishonest.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for the workers. That is very consistent.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We were referring to bonuses for those at the top and never about the workers.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is only playing games.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should be fair to the workers.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister find me a quote where I said we should not pay ordinary workers?
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the people at the top to pay.
- Industrial Relations (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to pay the ordinary workers who should not get their pay cut â¬2,500 before Christmas.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My contribution may be somewhat disjointed because I have been running around dealing with the consequences of IMF-inspired austerity in the form of the household charge. The bottom line - the point I wish to emphasise above all else - is that we must resist the IMF. This legislation must not be supported because it is a cosmetic attempt to make the IMF look like a benign entity rather than...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. That is well spotted by the Deputy opposite. However, it does not change the substance of my point.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditionalities. Yes, but wait until the Minister feels the effects. He should look at what the IMF did to other countries. Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist who worked closely with the IMF for ten years until he became a whistleblower on the reality of the IMF, was damning in his description of the IMF. He said: When the IMF arrives in a country, they are interested...
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do they not refer to their projections as guesses?
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By whom will they be elected?
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would have â¬10 billion in interest.
- Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will just have to put up with ten years of Thatcherism.