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EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has had with other EU leaders on the growing Eurozone crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26071/11]

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that Jean-Claude Trichet ruled out the possibility of bondholders taking some of the burden of a crisis they created. Let us be clear; it is they, the bankers and others, who created it. Did he explain why? What is the rationale for saying that we cannot force bondholders, the financiers and the speculators, to bear the burden? The Taoiseach can correct me if I am...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is whether there is any debate. Does the Taoiseach put that point to Trichet or the rest of them - that there is a serious body of opinion saying not just that it is unfair but that we are committing economic suicide?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In effect, is the ESM and the souped-up EFSM with corresponding or connected centralised economic governance criteria - the so-called six-pack - not a new treaty? It will centralise economic policy as a condition of bailing out countries and give more control to unelected and unaccountable central European authorities to dictate economic policy to countries that are in these mechanisms. The...

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fiscal stimulus.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not continue bailing out the bondholders, but stimulate the economy, which this strategy is failing to do.

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any discussion at all on that?

EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not work.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She just wants to negotiate.

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also object to the guillotine being imposed on the Insurance (Amendment) Bill. I spent an hour at a Department of Finance briefing this morning trying to get my head around the quagmire of the collapse of Quinn Insurance and this Bill is yet again a case of the ordinary policyholders having to bail out this failed entity which is tied up with Anglo Irish Bank bondholders and all the rest...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That assumes there were no alternatives.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (22 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since being elected, the new Administration has put the focus on its ambition to create jobs and, in particular, to develop the tourism sector in order to create jobs and generate revenue for the State. In spite of my deep differences with the Government on its economic policy and decision to adhere to what is the disastrous EU-IMF bank bailout and austerity programme, I share its belief...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (22 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I might as well use all my time. The issue of rates for small businesses and parking charges has recently been discussed by some of the Government and other Opposition Deputies. It is a larger issue and although it does not solely concern tourism, it impacts significantly on that industry. Dún Laoghaire has great potential as a small port-side town but its small businesses have been...

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In trying to make an assessment of the merits of the European Financial Stability Mechanism, EFSM, we should begin by setting down our priorities. What are the priorities and interests of ordinary people? In so far as we are discussing the majority in this country, these priorities and interests are about the hundreds of thousands who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own in...

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am suggesting welshing on bankers' debt. If half of the social welfare budget, which is €21 billion, is accounted for by people who are now on the dole, and it costs us some €10 billion to keep them on the dole when they want to work, we could make up the deficit by simply putting them back to work-----

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and topping up the €10 billion or so it costs us to keep them unemployed by getting €4 billion or €5 billion elsewhere. Where could we get that €4 billion or €5 billion? By taxing the wealth in this country.

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the one thing this Government, the last Government and all of the Governments and institutions across Europe refuse to do, namely, to tax a bit of the wealth of the tiny minority who have hoovered up the wealth and resources of our society for the past 20 years, who live on obscene salaries-----

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Their wealth should be taxed and we should put that money back into our economy and into employing people to do useful jobs-----

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----improving infrastructure and providing services. Why can we not do that?

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just look at Dún Laoghaire main street.