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State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not have a responsibility to tell the public, before these visits, how much they will cost so that we can debate as a society whether that is the best way to spend that money rather than putting it into the services people need and into job creation programmes-----

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----rather than for a jamboree for one of the wealthiest women in the world and one of the world's most powerful men?

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our harbour has not been sold.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A ballpark figure.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder will they travel around throwing cake to the peasants.

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While everyone welcomes inward investment, particularly if it is ethical in nature and is aimed at making a serious contribution to our society, is it not a major mistake to bet the entire economic future of the country on the hope of such investment? A necessary accompaniment to this type of investment is a ratcheting down of taxes on business and wealth. This produces an unsustainable...

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not also time to state that rather than just betting our economic future on inward investment, we must concentrate on developing an indigenous industrial base which is sustainable and which will not be vulnerable to the shocks and ups and downs that occur in the global market? We are aware that the latter is desperately unstable because it is driven by profit and competition rather...

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Higgins is right to be hysterical.

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am Deputy Boyd Barrett. The Ceann Comhairle is Deputy Barrett.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of the points have been made. It is extraordinary that the Labour Party would not wish to do something urgently about this unbelievable giveaway of natural resources. In responses I have heard so far from the Government, it seems to be hiding behind lame excuses, claiming the finds of billions of euro of gas and oil equivalent off the west coast are not proven and consequently this...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----our gas and oil fields will give no royalties to the Irish people. We will have no security of supply for any gas or oil that may be found off the west coast and even in regard to the taxes which are in place the companies will get tax write-offs and effectively will pay no tax whatsoever. One could not get a better definition of a giveaway. We are discussing a resource estimated to...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are running the place already.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will be created through public works programmes.

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Nyberg report spectacularly fails to identify the causes of the financial and economic crisis in simple and straightforward language. Some €1.2 million was spent on producing 100 pages of insipid financial jargon and meaningless psychobabble that blames everybody and nobody at the same time and explains little or nothing about what created the financial and economic crisis. It is...

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his views on the Dublin bus network direct and its impact on communities across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8595/11]

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the number of bus drivers that will lose their jobs as a result of network direct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8596/11]

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I found the Minister of State's response rather depressing. It was the same stuff I had heard from Dublin Bus when I asked it about the savage cutbacks to bus services across Dublin. I remind the Minister of State that before the general election, a policy document suggested "the bus remains the only public transport option with the short and medium term capacity to meet the growing...

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Deputy suggesting the Queen is more important than the elderly?

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She will not be using Dublin Bus.

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State's offer and will take him up on it. However, this is a much bigger issue. Thousands of elderly people in Dublin, including those who are immobile or disabled, have been affected by cuts to many bus routes, including the Nos. 3, 5, 10, 13a, 25x and 38c routes. There has been a disastrous attack on bus services, including Nitelink services, which are needed by...