Results 1-20 of 36 for revert speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...despite repeated requests means that we will end up in an adversarial approach where we require the survivors to get information and then deem their applications to be withdrawn if they do not revert within certain timeframes as against an open-ended period for the State to process and make decisions on applications. This redress scheme and legislation were supposed to be about the...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the motion. One cannot be too strong in condemning what is an absolutely insane scheme from this Government. It is a demonstration that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and sadly, the Green Party, have reverted to type. They have returned to the utterly disastrous developer-led policies which led to the crash in 2008 that almost destroyed our economy and inflicted a decade of suffering on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...generation of purchasers of affordable housing, the housing on public land will have been turned into unaffordable housing. As soon as market prices kick in after the first purchase, those houses will revert in my area to €450,00 or €500,000, having been built at the affordable level. There is no way to describe the consequence of not accepting this amendment other than...

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...workers' incomes and jobs when things got tough economically. That was the rhetoric; the new normal. We were not going back to the old normal; we were going forward to the new normal. However, it has not taken long to revert to type. The best example of that concerns health workers. As the applause of March and April fades into memory, what does the Government do to reward the...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., they were urging that money continue to be put into families, workers and households pockets for macroeconomic reasons as well as for reasons of economic justice and fairness. That argument, therefore, is simply nonsense. It is the Government reverting to type with a penny-pinching austerity ideology and a fundamental class prejudice about people who, through no fault of their own,...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could just revert to the normal order.

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., she is whipping up bogeymen and scapegoats and encouraging the notion that there are many people out there scamming the system and that the State must arm itself against them. It is Fine Gael reverting to type. I am sorry to put it like that but there is deep prejudice at work. The vast majority of these people lost their jobs because of public health guidelines and want to go back to...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we were supposed to be all in it together and we were all going to suffer the same hardships. People believed this but it seems they were fools to believe it. At the first opportunity, the Government reverted to type and started the discrimination, inequality and bias against the least well-off, the vulnerable and those who were unlucky enough to lose jobs and still not be able to get...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are very alarming signs that both the European Union and the Irish Government are utterly failing to learn the obvious lessons of the current public health emergency and are planning to revert to the failed austerity policies that did such damage in the aftermath of the financial crash of 2008 and to impose the cost and burden of this emergency once again on working people and the key...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked the question. Hopefully, the witnesses will revert with the answer. For the record, I was informed after stepping out following our earlier discussion that consultants could change from one contract to another. It is difficult to understand why we would not have discussed with those consultants the fact that we do not want a two-tier system in the national children's hospital.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...intangible assets debate in that windows were opened. The Minister of State mentioned that the Government changed the law in 2016, and it was around that time that the intangible assets measure reverted to 80%. A specific window was deliberately opened up for these people in terms of intangible assets and property. It is in that window that we have this enormous scandal of a large...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in the context of council and/or affordable housing on public land; — ensure that in any delivery of affordable homes on public land, all of these homes remain affordable into the future i.e. where purchasers do sell at a future date, they will be required to sell back to the local authority and that home will be either resold as affordable or revert to council housing; —...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to revert to the original proposal with regard to LIHAF funded developments as set out in circular PL 10/2016 of 26 August 2016, which required an affordability dimension for each site such that a minimum of 40% of homes were to be affordable; his further plans to ensure that affordable is defined so that they are...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to the council and there should be no capital gain above and beyond normal inflation. If it was bought at a discount on public land, it should be sold back to the council at the same level. It should remain affordable forever or revert to being council housing. Otherwise, it becomes a Trojan Horse for the privatisation of public land and public housing and actually depletes the stock of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not revert to the issue of research in universities and the bang for the buck that we derive from encouraging research and development through these allowances for private companies and, as has been said, the small number of big corporations that benefit from it. It seems to amount to the privatisation of research and development. The funding of our universities was...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...specifically to intellectual property. At this point, no one can say how we can measure its value or legislate for it. That is another reason we need to have a tight oversight regime. I will revert to this matter on Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider speeding up the restoration of the public service pension so that pensioners revert to their pre-financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation pensions by 1 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he is considering abolishing the local property tax and reverting to the direct funding of local authorities through progressive taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the budget 2017 process, if he is considering abolishing the local property tax and reverting to the direct funding of local authorities through progressive taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17504/16]

Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (19 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...described as the new politics. Interestingly, the most sceptical people I have met are those in the media, who do not believe for a minute that there can be a new politics but believe that everything will revert to type sooner or later. While I believe there are fundamental policy and ideological differences between many of us on key issues of policy, that does not mean that it is...