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Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do know.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I not know that?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows a lot about what I do not know.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus, it is getting very personal in here, Acting Chairman.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Scamming.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am only joking.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will I get an opportunity to speak on it?

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We oppose this Bill. It essentially allows a sunset clause for companies that have engaged in inversions, which is a tax avoidance strategy by American multinationals, where, through a paper exercise, they switch their headquarters to here in order to avoid tax. It is part of the global tax scam being perpetrated against the citizens of the world by these multinationals, which this country...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will ensure that Ireland has a veto on agreements with regard to the island of Ireland in relation to Brexit. [25983/17]

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not asking for extra seats but to be allowed to substitute.

Amendment of Terms of Reference of the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is irrelevant. The point the Minister State makes is totally irrelevant.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy McLoughlin for getting the Bill to this point. I have no doubt it will pass, hopefully unopposed, through the Final Stage. It is very much to his credit that we have got to this point. The Deputy and others will accept that the biggest victory here is the victory of people power in Leitrim and across the State. Communities and environmental campaigners took up the fight...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11 o’clock I move amendment No. 5:In page 4, line 17, to delete “Onshore”.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, to delete lines 30 and 31.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sinn Féin is making a mistake. In 2016, I introduced a Bill to ban hydraulic fracturing. It was specific about the process. It stated, "...all other practices to extract hydrocarbon from coal seams, shale rock and tight sands in Ireland." Then a Bill came from Deputy McLoughlin, on which I commend him. He is representing his constituency. However, that Bill reflects pressure from...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just did.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a lot of rules being bent today. We may as well have a free-rolling session.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope those in the Visitors Gallery and anybody watching is looking closely at the political machinations that are going on here. They are fascinating and a real glimpse into how this place works. It is true, and Deputy Eamon Ryan should put up his hands and admit it, that last week he argued we should withdraw our amendments, whereas he is now putting forward an amendment that goes even...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not an amendment.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.