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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because we do not believe in EU austerity.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated during the week, it is the hallmark of a tin-pot dictatorship to retain emergency legislation after the emergency is officially over. Mubarak did it for 25 years and it is done in all sorts of tyrannical and dictatorial-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That is what is being done, as this is emergency legislation when the emergency is over, even according to the Government. What is the legislation designed to do? It is to bully and intimidate public sector workers, create a two-tier pay structure and accelerate the race to the bottom. The FEMPI legislation is a textbook example of what Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. This...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a neo-liberal wet dream and the parties want to hold on to it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because of the interruptions.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have indeed. At the end of this so-called pay restoration, public sector workers will still earn less than what they earned in 2008, when Fianna Fáil started it and before Fine Gael continued the latter's policies. That is shocking. This affects our young teachers, nurses and, let us not forget, the ushers who come in here and who have also been affected by a two-tier system,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe for the publication and enactment of legislation dealing with low-hour contracts and precarious work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30475/17]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did and I apologise for coming in and out. It is useful to have a chance to ask Mr. McDowell questions because I do not fully know about the workings of the bank. I understand the broad principles, but it is very helpful to get a clearer and more detailed picture. The EIB lends directly to a state for its own projects which are on balance sheet. It also does public private partnership...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of conditionality does the EIB put on the loans? Is it primarily about the strategic nature of the investment or the ability of the particular project to be self-financing and therefore able to pay?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. There was nothing I could do.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is repetition.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies. Genuinely, there was nothing I could do. I had to be at the management committee.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I was trying to get at.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. McDowell. Given that the level of capital investment has fallen way down since the crash and all that, a big debate we are having here - and I apologise if this has already been raised - is about the constraints of the fiscal rules as applied to capital investment. We are trying to make a case for capital investment to be treated differently from current spending. Has the EIB...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Mr. McDowell say that again?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, if something is co-financed by the EIB, if it thinks it is a good thing and our State, for example, thinks so too, would that be on balance sheet at the moment?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. McDowell said the EIB does equity investment as well. Would it do joint projects with states?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the EIB do a joint venture with a state that would not be on balance sheet?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: European Investment Bank (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us say the EIB had 51% and the State had 49% in some project to build social housing here, for example.