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Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Senior bondholders have been.

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are certainly not getting those loans now.

Written Answers — Third Level Sector: Third Level Sector (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a State body, UCD, is going to pay the wages of staff in the UCD restaurant who will be in the employment of a private company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40350/11]

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health the reason lupus, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not medical conditions that qualify under the long-term illness scheme. [40122/11]

Written Answers — Harbour Authorities: Harbour Authorities (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in addition to the €230,000 spent on consultants in 2010 by Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, the amount spent on the following consultants working on the master plan, consultants-outside management managing office block No. 2 which is owned by Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and consultants engaged by Dún Laoghaire Harbour...

Written Answers — Harbour Authorities: Harbour Authorities (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company will be repaying the over-payments that they received on their expenses that they claimed from 2007 to 2010; the person in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company that authorised these payments; in view of the situation with these expenses, his views whether this person...

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Mathews, we are a little tight on time.

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The list of categories that we are seeking in these amendments to have excluded from the charge are unanswerable for anybody who claims to be even vaguely interested in fairness. Unless somebody on that side of the House in the Government will tell us soon - I would like to see the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, nod his head and state that I am absolutely right and that the Government...

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is begging them and they are just ignoring them.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are ignoring us.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And to sell our State assets.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Surely the Government knows what is in it now.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some other bodies will monitor our budgets.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Government representatives were at the summit. Do they know what they agreed?

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has the substance and it signed up to it.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which is going down.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the Europe of the bondholders or of the people?

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A wealth tax.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.

European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing my time with Deputies Shane Ross, Mick Wallace and John Halligan. It is evident that despite all the hoopla, last weekend's summit meeting of EU leaders was a spectacular failure. The record decline in the euro, the collapsing stock markets, rising bond yields, downgradings and threats of further downgradings of European debt, all testify to the failure of yet another summit....