Results 26,521-26,540 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It arises out of the Taoiseach's reply to the original questions.
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle should allow the Taoiseach to answer.
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is unbelievable.
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He had taken the action.
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the second part of the question I posed? Does the Taoiseach propose to discover whether that which I have outlined is US policy?
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the US; the persons with whom he met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10701/11]
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand the Taoiseach correctly, he has told the House that he met Timothy Geithner in March-----
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has. He met Timothy Geithner in March, he visited the United States again to discuss economic matters and he recently met the President of the United States. He knows, I know and the entire country knows that Ireland is on its knees as a result of the requirement placed on us to pay off the gambling debts of bankers and bondholders. Is the Taoiseach seriously telling the House that he...
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach telling the House that, despite the allegation, he gathered no knowledge in all of his meetings that this was the US Government's policy position on Ireland's economic situation? After the allegation was out in the open, did the Taoiseach ask President Obama about it? In the newspapers, he described the President as a political super star.
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we to take it that the Taoiseach was so star struck by his meeting with President Obama that he forgot about the most pressing issue facing this country and did not ask whether the US Government torpedoed our plan-----
- Official Engagements (25 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to force bondholders to pay some of the cost of the economic crisis they created? It is staggering. Has the Taoiseach any intention of asking the US authorities whether this most serious allegation is true? It will have a devastating effect on our people.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The centrepiece of the Bill is the pension levy. It is outrageous and economically stupid that we should attack the pensions savings of 750,000 workers and 65,000 pensioners, who are already struggling under the impact of the current crisis, and that this attack should take place to fund a jobs initiative that will do next to nothing to deal with the unemployment crisis and may significantly...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not work.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I gave three suggestions.
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Deployment: Defence Forces Deployment (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Defence if he intends to continue the deployment of Irish military personnel in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12287/11]
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach that his response has confirmed what he described as my conspiracy theory, which was nothing more than commentary in the Sunday newspapers. Perhaps he was too busy to read the newspapers at the weekend. While I am open to correction, the Taoiseach appears to have indicated he did not discuss with the British Government the interest rate on the bilateral loan. I...
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am seeking clarification from the Taoiseach.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not been given a clear answer.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not discuss the alleged intervention of Timothy Geithner on the issue of burning bondholders. If, as he informed the House, he only discussed the terms of the IMF-EU deal, is it not the case that we are grovelling before the United States and Britain in the hope-----
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that we may obtain a small change in the interest rate on the IMF-EU deal?