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- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also welcome the Bill. Whatever about its imperfections which its proposer accepts, the key point to it is that it deals with hundreds of thousands of the lowest paid and most vulnerable workers in the State. As has been stated, most of these workers are women or immigrants or from other vulnerable sectors of society and were extremely low paid workers even before the JLCs were struck...
- Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (6 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to meet 50% of the cost of the A5 dual carriageway from Derry to the border at Aughnacloy, estimated at £400 million, as per the St Andrew's Agreement; if not, if he will give consideration to provide £37.5 million to meet 50% of the cost of the relay of the rail line from Derry to Coleraine; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give a clear commitment that there will be no consideration of lifting the cap of â¬500,000 on bankers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27640/11]
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There would have been another few bob gambled.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister explain his remarkable comment that there should not be a write-down of our debt burden? Is it not a fact that being a good boy in the class and submitting to the austerity poison being inflicted on us to pay back bankers' debt has not worked? This can be contrasted to the resistance of the Greek people, where there is a 21% write-down in their debts, with talk of further...
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not kill people.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did the Greeks get a write-down?
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we share time?
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the last thing I want.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree. On the point of order, it is news to us that we could not share time because normally-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Clearly, it was not passed on to anybody because the other parties in Opposition are also-----
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I finish my point? First, it has not been passed on to us and we were not aware of it. The normal procedure for these debates is that it is stated that main spokespersons will make statements and that they can share time. That is what normally goes into the order.
- Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point do we shout that the emperor has no clothes? The European empire that is the troika of the EU, the ECB and the IMF, has no clothes, or to put it more accurately, it has not got a clue. Everything it has done over the past two years and everything it has dictated, which it claimed would improve the situation, has made the situation worse. That is blatantly obvious for...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To add to what Deputy Higgins said, I cannot believe the Minister of State is hiding behind legal waffle. This is a fully publicly owned company under the aegis of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte. Consequently, he can intervene and tell the ESB to put the cable underground. It is as simple as that.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course he can.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is typical. It is a publicly owned company. Who else runs it?
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just nonsense.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State is trying to wash her hands of it, like everything else. The Minister should intervene and tell the ESB to put underground these cables. It is as simple as that. Incidentally, the suggestion that Members were told by Mountjoy Prison that they were obliged to submit anything in writing is not true. The deputy governor, John Quinn, told me he had contacted the...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESB can commit to her-----