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- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did privatisation happen first in the countryside, where there was no campaign?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Public ownership of natural resources.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The customers paid for it.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Future governments can do so.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Access to RTE is not a human right.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pity we did not have referendums on those decisions.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Divide and rule.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The argument being brought forward by the Government side does not stack up. What it has not stated is if, as Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly has articulated very well, it wants to prevent a future privatisation of Irish Water, it will hold a referendum. There is nothing to lose. It would copperfasten it and keep everybody happy and we would all be singing from the same hymn sheet, at least on...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is most likely that Fine Gael wants it, but the Government wants a get-out clause and there is a good reason. I come at the issue from a slightly different point of view from many of the other contributors in that I do not believe a majority in the Government parties want to prevent the privatisation of Irish Water; worse than that, I believe the Government knows that, with the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the point that the Government states the amendment offers us a guarantee against privatisation, but it does not. In fact, everything else about Irish Water guarantees that it will start to be privatised from the moment charges are made in April 2015 or whatever date is proposed by the Minister. As soon as Irish Water starts to borrow money on the financial markets to undertake...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a prediction?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Good idea.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the outrageous decision of the ECB not to answer questions at the banking inquiry. The inquiry is a political stunt that was likely to produce nothing from the outset but now it is a complete dead letter with one of the key players in the entire debacle that has bankrupted the country and driven Europe into crisis refusing to answer questions about its role and the pathetic...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said "some".
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet again, as we move through this Bill section by section, it stumbles from the shambolic to the borderline comic to the Chaplinesque and then back to the outright dreadful.