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Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does starving children help to incentivise work?

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 19: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36002/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 20: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of unemployment in his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if so, the response that she gave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36003/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the immorality and damaging economic consequences of Ireland being forced to fully re-pay all senior bondholders in the Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36004/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the issue of the Anglo-Irish bank promissory note and the burden that it places on Irish State finances over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36005/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of slowing growth rates in the Eurozone with Chancellor Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36006/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the adverse impact of austerity measures on the Irish economy and the Eurozone generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36007/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 25: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans further bilateral meetings with other Eurozone leaders in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36008/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider proposing a joint summit meeting of leaders from Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Ireland to discuss the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the peripheral Eurozone States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36009/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Angela Merkel the continued deepening and spread of the Eurozone crisis despite the changes in political leadership and moves to impose austerity in Greece and Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36010/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 28: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed with Chancellor Angela Merkel the treaty changes she envisages within the EU, following her recent statement on the matter and the time-line she envisages for such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36011/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed tax harmonisation with Chancellor Merkel as part of the treaty changes she envisages for the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter [36012/11]

Official Engagements (22 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the mandate and role of the ECB within the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36013/11]

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seen it all now when Fianna Fáil brings forward a proposal to get rid of corporate donations. If there were an international award for brass neck, Fianna Fáil would get it for this Bill.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Fianna Fáil Members deserve Oscars. They really should go into acting.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The irony is beyond belief. The party of Charlie Haughey, Bertie Ahern and the Galway tent suggesting it knows how to clean up politics just beggars belief.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil's rotten relationship with big business, developers, bankers, and the super-wealthy has destroyed our economy. It has plunged 500,000 people into unemployment with tens of thousands leaving the country. Some of the most vulnerable sectors of our society are being punished in the most obscene way for the crimes Fianna Fáil committed.

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not have jobs now thanks to Fianna Fáil. The Fianna Fáil Members should be holding their heads in shame for what they have done. I could take this Bill seriously if those Members put their hands up to say they were guilty of wrecking our economy and imposing unbelievable suffering on working people, the vulnerable and the poor. Fianna Fáil Members, however, have not done so....

Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am for limiting them.