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- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (12 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to intervene in the ongoing industrial dispute at a site (details supplied) in west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/15]
- Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As in so many areas, the Government is disastrously letting down children and parents. The cost of child care is a disaster, as is the failure of the State to invest adequately in providing affordable child care. The average cost of child care is €162 a week, but the cost can be as high as €1,000 or €2,000 a month. This means someone with average earnings of...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not been translated into figures.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill is really quite pathetically weak in dealing with the most serious of crises, the climate crisis, and all the dangers it poses nationally and globally. It is largely an exercise in lip service that is fairly typical of how the Government deals with many serious matters. There is much high-flown rhetoric and aspiration and many promises but, on burrowing into the detail, one...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (11 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on talks and-or negotiations with the public sector unions regarding the abolition of the pension levy and how this relates to the commitment in the Croke Park agreement to use savings to the Exchequer from this agreement to restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (11 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the agreement under the Croke Park agreement deal that savings made from the deal would restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5746/15]
- Standing Order 107I: Motion (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not get any of the detail.
- Standing Order 107I: Motion (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find myself in something of a dilemma in the face of this Standing Order. There is not much point in opposing it, but I could hardly be enthusiastic in supporting it. Essentially, this change relates to the veil of secrecy that legally supports the golden circle in this country. If the public is to see any value whatsoever in the banking inquiry, I suggest it relates to the question of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In some ways, I share the Minister's concern about the seriousness of the situation we are facing. I do not want to overdramatise it, but I cannot understand why the Minister and the Government are stabbing the Greek people in the back. In the process we are stabbing in the back all of the victims of failed austerity policies, including in this country, by refusing their initial proposal,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister seriously suggesting the reason for the humanitarian crisis we are witnessing in Greece is it did not impose vigourously enough the troika programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a fact that even the IMF has acknowledged that the adverse and disastrous impact of the programmes was far worse than that predicted? They had a devastating effect. The initial prediction was that imposing this level of austerity on Greece would lead to a return to growth much quicker and that the adverse effects would not be as severe as they turned out to be. The troika was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the rich had paid their taxes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----just like if the rich had paid their taxes in Ireland-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Angela Merkel is saying there will be no deal without conditionality, while the Greek Government has stated it cannot continue the programme and that it has no mandate to continue it because of the election result. It is stating it cannot do it anymore because the public will not stand for it, while Angela Merkel is saying there will be no deal unless Greece continues the programme with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister himself said it, saying there would be no bridging finance deal without conditionality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I share the Minister's concern, as I noted earlier. We are at a very serious point. The Greek Finance Minister rightly stated that we could be facing a house of cards if Greece is forced out because the ECB, Angela Merkel and other Governments are insisting on this hard-line refusal of a write down and making any deal conditional on keeping with a programme that the Greek people simply can...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the one hand, the Minister is saying "no write-downs", which is what the Greeks want, but on the other, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine said that if the Greeks did get a write-down we would want one too. We are not going to help them to get a write-down but we want to benefit from any write-down they achieve. Is that not a shameful position to take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: ECOFIN Briefings: Minister for Finance (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If Greece proposes a debt conference and a deal similar to that agreed for Germany at the end of the Second World War, will the Minister say "No way"?
- Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In relation to the vote we have to take later on Deputy Clare Daly's Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013, the Taoiseach has just indicated that Labour Deputies are receiving a briefing.
- Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did say a "briefing".