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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My criticism of Mr. Varoufakis and Mr. Tsipras is they have capitulated to the blackmail of the European Union.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would have prepared plan B for an exit because one could not go into a negotiation with these guys unless one had plan B. This plan B had to involve being willing to go out of the eurozone if they were not willing to be reasonable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Time is short. I accept Mr. McCarthy's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept the point that it is difficult.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interview with New StatesmanMr. Varoufakis stated he told Mr. Tsipras he advocated stating if they did not give Greece a reasonable deal they would impose a haircut on the ECB, take over the Greek Central Bank and issue their own currency. He had a plan B.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much accept what Mr. McCarthy states as it absolutely accords with my view. It is not only Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Varoufakis and the left, as Mr. Krugman and anybody looking at this, including the IMF, who state the thing is unsustainable and we will be back in crisis mode in a few months time. The crisis could escalate again this week. A few minutes ago I received a text stating many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what is happening now.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the ISDS, or investor-state dispute settlement, as part of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, through which corporations are able to sue governments for passing laws that threaten their profits and do not abide by the same rules as national court systems; his further views regarding the possible cost to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views regarding the transatlantic trade and investment partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Administration (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding her Department's policy on sending child benefit review forms to those in receipt of child benefit; how regularly these are forms issued to recipients; if there are Department regulations, guidelines, memos, circulars or polices in regard to this; and her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on additional bank charges applied to bill pay zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29326/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medical Treatment Complaints (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the redress available for survivors of a home (details supplied) in County Dublin who were subjected to vaccine trials; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29329/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of student visas issued in the Irish Embassy in Beijing in China for students on co-operative programmes with Irish higher education institutions and institutes of technology for the years 2008 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29383/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of visa applications received, approved, and refused in the Irish Embassy in Beijing in China for universities and institutes of technology, other third levels, further education colleges and secondary schools for the years 2009 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of visa applications received, approved and refused in the Irish Embassy in Beijing in China for accreditation and co-ordination of English language services approved language schools, and for other English language schools for the years 2009 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin Bus Services (14 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am involved in organising a public meeting in Sallynoggin tonight where I expect large numbers of local residents to come and express their absolute fury and disbelief at a decision of two public bodies, Dublin Bus and the National Transport Authority, NTA. These bodies, which are the Government’s responsibility, have made proposals to slash bus services in the greater Dún...

Topical Issue Debate: Dublin Bus Services (14 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dublin Bus is making €11 million in profits, carrying 4 million extra passengers and these numbers continue to rise. That means we need more, not fewer, buses. This is about profit, nothing more. For the Government, as the Minister of State has just done, to pass this off, claiming it has to do with the NTA and Dublin Bus, is nonsense. The NTA was set up by Fianna Fáil and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin McGuinness, since the crisis in the Northern Ireland Assembly over welfare reform legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24596/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, since the recent British general election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24597/15]

Other Questions: Eurozone Crisis (14 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not actually mean that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, has assisted in what is effectively a coup d'état in Greece? There is a deliberate attempt by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the troika to split the Greek Government in order to ram more unconscionable austerity down the throats of people who are on their knees. Does the fact that there is going to be a general strike...