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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.

Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the fact that we will have an opportunity to discuss the Nyberg report today, although I cannot say I welcome its content. Given the media coverage today that the McCarthy report proposes the sale not of €2 billion worth of State assets, as specified in the programme for Government, but of €5 billion worth, and lists such bodies as Coillte, the ESB, and harbours and ports, is...

Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we start it tomorrow?

Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Deputy will tell us about it.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not really an answer. Reports have been circulating in the media about the Garda and a bill for €25 million for security for the visits. Nobody knows the figure - certainly I do not - but perhaps the Taoiseach knows whether that figure is part of such a cost or is the total considerably greater? Who will pay for it? Is it to come from the Taoiseach's Department? The public are...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or public services that were cut could be restored. Is it not merely rubbing the noses of the Irish public, who have been slaughtered with cuts, to invite one of the richest women in the world to this country for a jamboree or to spend millions on bringing over the American President when that President is involved in a war in Afghanistan, is arming and financing dictatorships in the...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach may be aware the previous visit to Dún Laoghaire was accompanied by a protest organised by none other than James Connolly. It was a justified protest because the monarch represented and symbolised vast inherited wealth and the subjugation of poor people in this country. To bring it up to date, is it not incredible for the Taoiseach to say we will only know the cost of these...