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Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael and Labour councillors decided they want to spend more money-----

Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not get €43,000.

Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Stagg is wrong.

Order of Business (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Stagg should check his facts.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister clarify that last point?

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Richard Bruton stated it.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bad enough that those with special needs and low-paid workers, our accident and emergency services, and workers struggling to make ends meet, the 350,000 people who have lost their jobs or the 200,000 who have left the country, have to pay to satisfy the greed of the bankers and the bondholders which the Government, the EU and the IMF wish to protect.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Minister's policy amounts to.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sacrificing the needs of our society-----

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the needs of our most vulnerable citizens to pay off bankers and bondholders. This is what the Minister is doing. If all of this is not bad enough, there might be some justification for it if it contributed one iota towards economic growth and recovery and eventually putting people back to work.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of State assets exposes the lie of this strategy. This is about getting rid of the very resources and assets that could create jobs, that could provide the engine for economic recovery-----

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows well because he has read the ICT report on the Eircom privatisation which was published this year. It makes me laugh to hear Fianna Fáil criticising the possible sale of State assets when they presided over Eircom, which was a disaster, let to 5,000 jobs being lost and to massive enrichment for Tony O'Reilly, Goldman Sachs, George Soros and all the rest of the vultures....

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans for job creation in view of the planned privatisation of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28871/11]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would like the Government to hear what we have to say.

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...