Results 8,701-8,720 of 26,897 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I meant to say the slots should be 210 minutes long rather than 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I meant 210 minutes as against one hour and 45 minutes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not agree but I will not call a vote.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we had decent jobs instead of bogus self-employment in forestry then I might agree with Deputy McGrath.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of them upheld.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They got grants.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is wrecking the industry as it is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just propaganda.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Big money and big interests are involved in this.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Methinks the Taoiseach does protest too much.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Taoiseach is doing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid I will have to call a vote on this proposal. It is completely unacceptable. The manipulation of the speaking order is bad enough but the ramming through of the Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 on Wednesday is an absolute abuse of democracy and it cannot be allowed to stand without serious objection. The Bill has been described as "shocking" by the Environmental...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have submitted dozens of amendments. Deputy Naughten, who has a different perspective on the Bill, has indicated that he put in 12 amendments. There are some 100 amendments in total.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae that all the amendments should be debated. It is unacceptable that Second Stage should run on into Committee and Final Stages when most of those amendments will not even be debated. That is completely unacceptable and there is no justification for ramming the Bill through in this way. I sought a briefing on the Bill from the Oireachtas Library and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Shameless.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a total misrepresentation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I brought the attention of the House to the fact that the acting Chief Medical Officer and NPHET were not coming before the committee on Covid despite having been invited. It is a completely unacceptable situation. Before the weekend, I discovered from the Covid committee's secretariat that NPHET would not be attending again despite the consternation and debate in the Dáil...