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Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Please, a Cheann Comhairle, I am almost finished.

Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is unbelievable.

Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have almost finished my question. The Taoiseach said that reducing costs in the health service - by which I presume he means staff cuts and so on - will improve our competitiveness and is somehow linked to our export recovery. That connection baffles me.

Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How do cuts in health spending help our competitiveness, improve employment prospects or contribute to export-led recovery? It is a baffling assertion.

Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How will that enhance competitiveness and exports?

Programmes for Government (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does that have to do with exports?

Social and Affordable Housing (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand how property transferred or sold by NAMA can contribute to dealing with the 93,000 people on housing lists when the Government announced over the summer that there would be no more direct building of council housing. Will the Minister square that circle for me? Will the Minister also explain the economic rationale behind local authorities leasing properties from NAMA, as...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the ones who are interrupting.

Fiscal Policy (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bad enough that we have effectively seen a political coup d'état by the markets and the troika in Italy and Greece in recent weeks and all the suffering resulting from these so-called fiscal adjustments but is there any recognition on the Minister's part, as projected growth rates for Europe are being downgraded on a daily basis, that the austerity might not be working? Does the...

Fiscal Policy (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking about fiscal adjustment.

Fiscal Policy (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To what does the Minister ascribe the contraction?

Fiscal Policy (15 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Spain and Britain?

Middle East Peace Process (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you group it with the other questions on Palestine so we can discuss it?

State Visits (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While we welcome any trade development for this country in the current circumstances, the Tánaiste is well aware of the brutal human rights record of the Chinese regime, its completely undemocratic character, its persecution of Falun Gong and the people of Tibet and its regular execution of political dissidents. Did the Tánaiste raise these issues with the Chinese authorities during his...

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the Tánaiste has acknowledged the rogue behaviour of the Israeli state in Gaza, including shooting children, the siege and snubbing the Government in raising the treatment of our citizens-----

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste think it is time we stopped treating Israel as a normal state, playing nice guys and started to get tough? He should be making the kind of statements he rightly made about the failures of the Church in this country and its abuse of individuals. Why can we not hear statements about Israel's behaviour which are as strong as those made about the role of the Church in the...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the billionaires and millionaires?

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the billionaires, the developers and the bankers.

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should have put that in her party's manifesto, that its priority was to save the euro.

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on reports of moves and possible preparations by states such as the US, Britain and Israel to militarily assault Iran; if the recent decision to close the Iranian embassy is linked to these developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33711/11]