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Other Questions: Refugee Numbers (27 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the European Union-wide settlement programme for 160,000 refugees only delivering for 0.17%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3040/16]

Other Questions: Refugee Numbers (27 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is reported that of the 160,000 refugees the European Union has agreed to resettle, a pathetic 0.17% of them is all that have been taken, despite the quite vile hysteria whipped up by certain governments, most recently the French Government, about these desperate people fleeing the most desperate circumstances. In fact, Europe has done very little to implement even what it said it would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is acceptable that in the panel of a barrister's review of the case of a person (details supplied), the person was not interviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3039/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Migrant Integration (27 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees Ireland has accepted to date as part of our commitment to take 4,000 refugees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3413/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is based on growth projections.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Much as the Government wishes to trumpet its success, stability and the so-called turnaround of the economy, the issue of the odious debt heaped on the back of this country and its citizens, the terrible cost that has imposed on our economy and people and the threat it represents to the economy continues to return. Has the Taoiseach read the most recent report from the European Commission,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The previous discussions have all been very general.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, absolutely.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not; it is about the European Council meetings and whether-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely does. From the European Commission-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not cut anybody else off.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody else ranged across four or five subjects-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They did.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----from the Brexit to the European economy to the refugee crisis, and so on. Given this report, is the Taoiseach going to go back to the European Council and say now we have a European body itself saying that Europe was significantly responsible for failing to recognise the warning signals, which it was supposed to be monitoring, and that the programme management of the bailout may have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----human tragedy of millions of displaced people, should we not be calling out the utter folly and immorality of responding to this terrible crisis by bombing the countries that have been so devastated?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the European Union Council meetings he attended in December 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1935/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Sector and Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is perfectly understandable that, given the dispute, we remain to be convinced. I view the Government's growth projections for the economy as fanciful, to put it mildly, given what has been said about the likelihood or possibility of an international recession. Is Professor Lane in a position to comment on this? Is it not a dangerous game to be playing, to be predicting very...