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Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tánaiste to reconsider this issue. The more widespread and prominent the support that is given to the flotilla, the greater chance it has of getting through and bringing aid and support to the besieged people of Gaza. If, for example, there was a Government representative on board one of those ships, it would make it far less likely that Israel would attack it. For that reason,...

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to do something; words are not enough. The Tánaiste did not indicate whether the Government will follow through on the call by his party colleagues, Deputy Costello and Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, to bring charges against Israel for its involvement in the brutal invasion of Gaza in 2006 and for its attack on the aid flotilla which was, by any standards, an illegal and immoral act of...

EU Accession (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste not agree that we could take a leaf out of the Icelandic people's book in holding a referendum on our bank bailout? Icelandic voters were allowed to have their say and that gave their Government a stronger hand in negotiations on how to deal with their banking crisis. The demand of the people, expressed in two referenda, that the bondholders should pay some of the cost...

Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Tánaiste's support and commitment for sanctions against the Burmese dictatorship and in support of Aung Sang Suu Kyi. As has been noted, she is an inspirational figure and her campaigning and that of her supporters have brought pressure to bear on Burma to an extent. However, I refer to the issue of consistency and double standards in another regard. Should the Government,...

Human Rights Issues (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to hundreds of billions in arms sales. Should Ireland not demand clearly and unequivocally, within the European Union, sanctions against such regimes, as well as an end to arms sales?

Overseas Missions (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he attended or was represented at Ministerial or official level at the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Berlin on 14 April 2011; and if he will report on that meeting. [8809/11]

Overseas Missions (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it appropriate that troops from a neutral country such as Ireland should be involved with NATO in Afghanistan in what is by any serious definition an aggressive military action headed up by the United States, Britain and other large powers in a conflict characterised by atrocious violence against a civilian population, including the use of drones to bomb civilian areas on the border with...

Overseas Missions (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the elections that brought him to power were rigged? What are we doing there? Why have we troops in Afghanistan when we are supposed to be a neutral country? Why are we linked with the NATO military alliance, a US-led, aggressive, Cold War relic?

Telecommunications Services (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are always more of us present, though.

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views regarding repression of the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9013/11]

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I welcome the fact the Tánaiste is concerned, we need to be honest. Concern will not be sufficient for the people of Bahrain and neither are investigations sufficient. A ruthless repression of pro-democracy protesters is taking place there. In recent days, hundreds of the people who organised the pro-democracy protest, who were calling for nothing more than democracy-----

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----have been arrested and detained without trial. The daughter of one of these people is on hunger strike in protest. It is a brutal situation. Saudi Arabia has been involved in supporting this regime. I suggest we need more than expressions of concern from the European Union. Ireland should challenge at European level and also with our US friends the unbelievable inconsistency of...

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it? What concrete actions are we going to call on them to take? I do not believe bombing is the way forward in Libya, but I thought it was absolutely right for sanctions to be imposed on the Gadaffi regime for what it was doing to the pro-democracy movement in that country. Why are we not calling clearly for sanctions to be imposed against Bahrain and against...

Service with UNIFIL: Motion (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish troops have an honourable record in their deployment in Lebanon as part of the UNIFIL mission. For that reason, there is warm affection among the people of Lebanon, particularly southern Lebanon, for Irish troops and a recognition that their role, when they were deployed there between 1978 and 2001, was a genuinely benign one and a genuine peacekeeping mission. I have no doubt, in so...

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read most of the McCarthy report and I found it terrifying. It recommends asset stripping of this country which would involve the sale of vital State assets and companies - by any definition, these are strategic assets - to pay off the bankers, gamblers and speculators.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the Government's response to this document be brought before the Dáil for debate or in some other shape or form?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has not informed the House with regard to when the matter will be debated.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When precisely and under what format will the House discuss a plan to asset strip this country to pay off the bankers?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I only received my copy at teatime yesterday.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fear is in the report.