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- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This deal is a sell-out. It is a sell-out of farmers. It is a sell-out of the environment and the battle to address the climate emergency. It is a sell-out on human rights. It is a sell-out on food safety and quality. It is facilitated by an earlier sell-out of democracy in the form of the Lisbon treaty which did away with Ireland's veto in the area of trade deals.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us opposed it and joined the anti-globalisation protesters in Genoa specifically because it would enable the EU to do international trade deals that would destroy our environment, hammer farmers and undermine human rights. Now the chickens have come home to roost. The Ministers should confirm it. Somebody asked earlier if we have a veto. The answer is that we do not because of the...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The script will just confuse people. In simple layman's language, we do not have a veto because we gave it away in the Lisbon treaty, which extended qualified majority voting to this area. The chickens have come home to roost.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I opposed it. Deputy Howlin supported it and that is why he is interrupting me.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We warned about it and protesters took to the streets all over the world. The big mobilisations in Genoa, Florence and Seattle were all about this. At the time, small farmers and indigenous peoples from Latin America were on those protests. Farmers from France, such as José Bové, were warning that this would screw the small farmer and here we are. That is the consequence of it....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like an answer to the question as to whether it is a reasonable basic democratic request to suggest there would be a border poll in the event of a hard Brexit.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The likelihood of Boris Johnson taking over as leader of the Tory Party and becoming Prime Minister, God help us, is ironic. The upper class Etonian twit who harks back to the great days of the British Empire could be the person who will help to facilitate the break-up of the United Kingdom, but intelligence is not his strong point. It creates a dangerous scenario for us in that it...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not agreed Wednesday's business yet.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government that is abusing the democratic process; we have no choice but to make an issue of it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They seem to think that they have a monopoly.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They seem to think that they have a monopoly; they do not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With all respect to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----I cannot respect what this Government is doing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is outrageous.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But you cannot say that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3 o’clock Not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Everyone is showing contempt for democracy.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sabotaging democracy-----