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Army Barracks (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister give those people some assurance that he is not already recommending these closures and that his priority is to keep those barracks open and cause the least possible disruption to these families and towns?

Army Barracks (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have certainly moved on from the rebellious Irish in terms of this Government's approach to dealing with the troika - that is for sure. Setting aside that issue, the Minister seems to be suggesting that his advice is primarily being dictated by the military considerations of the heads of the Army, the officers and so on, while my concern is primarily for the rank and file military...

Army Barracks (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be happy to.

Army Barracks (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless one is a banker, of course.

Overseas Missions (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for overseas missions involving Irish military personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31566/11]

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

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

Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the two officials from the Department of Finance for going through the Bill with me for approximately an hour and a half and trying to explain its dense content. As I understand it the Bill must be introduced in the context of a complicated situation in terms of the more than 200 legislative items relating to the Central Bank and the financial services sector. Anyone who can work...

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ye proposed it.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The deference and submission of this Government to the diktats of the EU and IMF would be understandable if the troika's strategy showed any sign at all in the last two years of working and any measure of success in containing the crisis and helping to move Europe in a positive direction. It is bizarre in the extreme, given the utter disarray at the European Council, that the Taoiseach...

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is simple; the Government must stop paying off the bondholders. The State must then take over the banking system, decide its priorities and invest in jobs and economic growth.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should refuse to pay the next instalment of €750 million to Anglo Irish Bank's bondholders.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should refuse to pay €3 billion to those bondholders next year and for ten years thereafter. That is the alternative. It is about time this Government broke its addiction to the failed neoliberal ideology of austerity and bailing out bankers and bondholders.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State always heckles because she does not want to listen.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister of State explain what appears to be the bizarre position the Government is articulating in its statement today? She correctly condemned the last Government for getting us into this mess and for signing up to an unsustainable deal to pay off the gambling debts of bankers and bondholders. It is nauseating in the extreme that Fianna Fáil can pontificate about deals it set up.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, you are. You make it up as you go.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Having correctly criticised the last Government for this, the Minister of State is seriously telling us it is a bad thing for Greece to get an unsustainable debt written down and it is a good thing for us that we must continue to pay off the gambling debts of bankers and bondholders.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am nearly there. How can it be a good thing? The Minister of State might argue it is necessary and I would strongly disagree with her, but it is bizarre in the extreme to say it is a good thing for Ireland because the financial markets will be happy. The financial markets got us into this mess. Who cares what they think?

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about jobs and growth and how does paying off gambling debts to bankers and bondholders help jobs and economic growth?

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking at the statement.

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's statement.