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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 €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 €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.

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...