Results 26,121-26,140 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- 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 â¬21 billion, is accounted for by people who are now on the dole, and it costs us some â¬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 â¬10 billion or so it costs us to keep them unemployed by getting â¬4 billion or â¬5 billion elsewhere. Where could we get that â¬4 billion or â¬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.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I do.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not my view.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not my view.
- European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputies opposite are not listening to Deputy Wallace. They are chatting the whole way through his contribution.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (20 Sep 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shameful that any Government, particularly one which includes the Labour Party, would consider selling any part of a vital strategic public asset like the ESB, Bord na Móna or Coillte. It is even more shameful that it is being done under the diktat of the European Union and the IMF to pay off the private debts of bondholders, speculators and vultures of the financial market. It is...