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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all have questions tabled, and some people should not get more time than others.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. That is just not on. On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have equal entitlement to that time allocation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and normally there is a one-and-a-half-minute or a one-minute restriction on the questions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----so everyone gets to ask a question and the Taoiseach gets time to reply.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is your people speaking longer than everyone else.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So am I.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not. That is rubbish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a copy of the advertisement to sell off forests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [53178/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not your slot.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Any talk of economic recovery is rendered meaningless if the cost of living skyrockets, as it is doing for ordinary working people. The amount of tax relief the Government gave them in the budget was miserable for the average worker, against a background of an increase of between €500 and €1,000 in energy costs for many households, disproportionately hitting the less well off....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume we will get the same amount of time as the two previous speakers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be shared out fairly. I was going to raise the issue of the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021, which the Taoiseach mentioned, but for the week that is in it, I will raise an issue regarding forestry, which I assume this Cabinet committee also deals with because the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May we have two minutes extra for this grouping to allow the Taoiseach to answer our questions? We kept within time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We kept within our time. Could we even have a minute and a half?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Two minutes, yes. We need it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I need an answer as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with marine and fishing will next meet. [53177/21]
- Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing forward this Bill, which we are very happy to support. When the for-profit banking system drove this economy over a cliff, along with its developer friends, the Government moved heaven and earth to prop it up. Emergency legislation was flowing like confetti. It involved late-night sittings, huge urgency and €60 billion to keep them going. As for...