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Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that it will not rampage over her land.

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course it can.

EU-IMF Programme (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very hard to get straight answers about the outrageous plan to dispose of State companies and State assets, in part or in whole. As I understand it, and the Minister can correct me if I am wrong, there is no specific requirement in the EU-IMF memorandum of understanding that we sell State assets. It says that the Government will consider options for an ambitious programme of asset...

EU-IMF Programme (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is not answering the question. What is the rationale which the troika or he is putting forward for the sale of State assets? How is it of benefit to this country and its prospects for economic recovery or growth? I cannot see any other logic behind the demand of the EU-IMF, or the Minister's support for the sale of State assets in the programme for Government, other than asset...

EU-IMF Programme (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did it work with the banking sector?

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question partially relates to an earlier question and also follows on from the Minister's response. Has he carried out any serious assessment of whether bringing in private capital into the strategic infrastructural investment programmes is effective and will lead to higher levels of investment, job creation and growth? The ICTU and UNITE, among others, which studied those matters are...

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about what is happening in Europe.

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ideology.

Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Print a few punts up in Sandyford.

Public Service Pay (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome Deputy Keating's question. He is pointing to an important issue - the obscene salaries of many people in the top echelons of the civil and public service, who are paid with public money. I do not know if he agrees with me when I suggest his proposal could be extended to cover the obscene salaries at the top of the corporate and private sectors. The Minister and the Government...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an outrage that a 65 year old woman, Teresa Treacy, has been languishing in jail for several weeks because of the ESB's bullying and determination to run overhead power transmission lines through a farm and forest land that she has nurtured and given much of her life to developing. All she is asking, as she has made clear to the ESB for several years, is that the lines be placed...

EU-IMF Programme (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance his negotiating position with the EU-IMF Troika in relation to the sale of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27641/11]

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. The eurozone economy is plunging yet further into crisis. The more certain countries impose their stupid policies of austerity and bank bailouts the worse it gets. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, lives in a land of delusion and thinks the Irish economy can thrive when the rest of the European economy is going down the toilet. Faced with this unprecedented crisis all we get...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are in New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some six hours will be devoted to the Second Stage debate on the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011 this week and the Taoiseach is only allocating 90 minutes for the debate on the crisis in Europe.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be seeing a few more of those in the coming months.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the figure €2 billion or €5 billion?

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On promised legislation and promised debates,-----

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----I must correct the Taoiseach because before the summer break he promised we would have a chance to debate the sale of State assets. I ask him to keep that promise.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of debate is it if we do not get a chance to debate in this House the merits or demerits of selling off the family silver-----