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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the order of the bail-in and the conditions around it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can protected people under €100,000 be bailed in before this mechanism kicks in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who has to pay into the resolution fund here? Obviously, the pillar banks will pay, but will the credit unions or the English banks with subsidiaries here have to pay?

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is connected to the argument about the terms of reference.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about parliamentary questions and the failure of the Minister to answer them.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is relevant. The failure of the Minister to-----

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman is wasting my time.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman is wasting my time.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making a point about an issue that arises out of this.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is unbelievable.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware of the motion and I am speaking to it.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked 50 questions raising issues of corporate governance to do with public assets, unexplained payments, expenses and so on, over a four-year period but no action was taken. There is a story there. This connects with the Siteserv issue. In the Minister of Finance’s statement last week, he said "any concerns around the [Siteserv] transaction were not known either to me or to my...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That raises very serious questions. This is somebody who owes €500 million to one bank, where there are now allegations that he was not meeting the terms of those loans and was looking to renegotiate them, who gets an enormous write-down to his benefit when he takes over Siteserv, and the bank that lends him the money to buy the company is 100% publicly owned. Do we not need to look...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the ten minutes available to me, I certainly will not be able to cover the multiple issues that arise from the whole Siteserv-IBRC debacle in the necessary sort of forensic detail. I assure Deputy Regina Doherty that I hope to look at the issues in a reasoned manner. Whatever about the use of language, to mention the context of the Moriarty tribunal, the adverse findings in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered bringing English language teachers or English language schools under its aegis; if she will provide details of any meetings she has had with other Departments, or with stakeholders, on the EDL sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22022/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 880 of 26 May 2015, if she will provide a specific timeframe for the relocation of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin to its permanent building, as the situation is now critical in terms of the conditions at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22021/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree that the Charlie Hebdokillings were appalling and are to be condemned outright. However, my question was trying to ascertain that unless we address the issue of double standards in foreign policy, the fuel that is driving the Middle Eastern and north African region towards extremes and towards intractable and perennial conflict will continue. At the very heart of that, and...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“Setting annual targets5. (1) The Minister shall, by order, set the annual targets for each year in the periods mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (2). (2) The Minister shall set the annual targets for each year—(a) in the period 2015-2022, no later than 31 October 2015, (b) in the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we allowed to respond to the Minister?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I seek clarification from the Chair. If we push these to a vote now, is it the case that we cannot resubmit them on Report Stage?