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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have no teeth.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should watch "Mad Men".
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the peace and anti-war protestors who have challenged the shocking bias of the Government’s so-called forum on security matters, which is heavily stacked with people who are pro NATO and pro EU militarisation and has almost no voices of those who are concerned about and warning against the Government’s de facto pulling of Ireland closer to NATO, an alliance dominated...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The UK's record is not brilliant, is it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [30974/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The scandal of the secret payments to Ryan Tubridy in RTÉ has highlighted very serious questions about governance and oversight in public bodies in receipt of large amounts of public funding. Of course, it is gut wrenching for the ordinary workers in RTÉ, the ordinary journalists who do not benefit from these staggering salaries that a small few at the top got, or the additional...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his intention to establish additional units-divisions in his Department to those outlined in the programme for Government. [30975/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single household and family, especially families with children, who end up homeless and are evicted into homelessness through no fault of their own are being let down by the State. They are being very badly let down. They are being traumatised. I have heard the Taoiseach say most people get out of homelessness within a relatively short time, but that is not the experience I am...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get a report before the summer recess or as part of the summer statement?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (27 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier, the Taoiseach referred to what he described as “our allies” in NATO. He also mentioned Britain. Of course, we have close connections, huge numbers of English people are here, and they are our neighbours. However, I have to question this thinking because at the moment our so-called "ally", as the Taoiseach described it, has introduced a law that is going to make it...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not studied the whole report yet, but it is very useful and helpful in trying to quantify the impact of expenditure allocations and targets. Until we had this document, we did not really know what the outcomes were. It is extremely helpful in assessing whether targets set and moneys allocated are actually delivering what they were intended to deliver. It is extremely useful and...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The relevant Department decides what the officials get to put in this report.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that give Departments the opportunity to flatter to deceive, or whatever that expression is? They choose what information to give rather than what we might want to know.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Flatter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry if I am asking dumb questions, but did the committees look at the drafts of what is to go in the report and the metrics being used in each Department?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The officials will go to private session meetings of every single committee.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the committees look for it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, to see how that works in practice in the past few years, how long have the reports been going on?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have committees come back to the officials and discussed with them what is in their particular section?