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Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not that it really listens.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apparently, we cannot call a quorum.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extraordinarily disappointing and pretty outrageous that the Minister has not bothered to turn up for this debate, which is about defending and protecting one of the most vulnerable sectors of our society. The Government amendment is a scandal in that it has diluted to nothing a very good motion put forward by Sinn Féin which articulates the views of the tens of thousands of people...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why has the Government then tabled an amendment to delete completely the Sinn Féin motion?

Job Creation (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of us on this side of the House believe that the move to sell State assets is a shameful betrayal of the public interest. However, given that the Government and the troika are determined to go through with it, can the Minister of State be more specific about the jobs created from this process? From the answer to Deputy O'Dea, should I take it that we do not know many jobs we will...

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I propose to share time with Deputies Clare Daly and Shane Ross. Is it not time to admit that the routine of being the best boy in the European class is not working? The mounting evidence, whether in Greece, the latest figures on Irish bond yields, the downgrading of Irish growth forecasts or the growing awareness that the European economy will contract, means that this is not working. No...

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Council meeting will just be a rubber stamp for what they have decided, which is that they want the power to ram more austerity - more economic shock therapy - down our throats and those of other European states. It seems the only thing the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste are worried about is that the people of this country might have a say about that. They are not worried about...

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach had his chance to speak. This strategy is shameful and humiliating. It might be forgivable if the strategy of the EU, the ICB and the IMF was showing any sign at all of working, but it is not working. This week we saw all the evidence. The austerity in Greece is crucifying its economy. Its growth has collapsed and because of this, its unsustainable debt is even more...

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We submit and impose shock therapy and we get nothing, while the Greeks, because they resist, get something. Is it not time to stand up and say "No" to this economic madness? We should do what the people in Greece and in Wall Street are doing, which is to protest and resist and demand a strategy that puts jobs and economic growth first.

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not deny it.

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not going to happen?

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our hearts are bleeding, Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Pension Levy: Pension Levy (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will amend the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 to eliminate the situation in which privately employed workers, many of them extremely low paid, have had the public sector pension levy imposed on them when they do not receive a public sector pension or any of the entitlements of public sector...

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Taoiseach tell us when the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill will come through the Dáil? Can he clarify that this Bill will deal with raising the retirement age for public service workers and reducing their pension entitlements? Can the Taoiseach tell us exactly when the housing Bill, which is due to be published in 2012, will be published and...

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just do not understand what the legislation is, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Government members were oracles.

Commemorative Events (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach not agree it is a bit tokenistic and a bit of a joke, frankly, to talk about commemorating the 1916 Rebellion when this country is being recolonised by the dictatorship of the EU-IMF?

Commemorative Events (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The best commemoration we could have for 1916 is to stand up together and tell the EU-IMF to get off our backs and stop asset-stripping this country-----

Commemorative Events (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a question.