Results 25,721-25,740 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there will be crap conditions for workers.
- Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will probably take less than ten minutes. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare deserves great credit for the extensive work it did in producing its own report, which is a huge piece of work. Similarly, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight put in a fair bit of work and thought into producing its own report. Given the volume of recommendations involved I do not support many of the...
- Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to speak on behalf of People Before Profit. Local authorities are chronically under-resourced and underfunded and are having their powers stripped away from them systematically and on an ongoing basis through underfunding, outsourcing and backdoor privatisation to the point where they are becoming increasingly irrelevant when it comes to doing...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on discussions with his counterparts in Europe with regard to imposing sanctions on Israel because of its war crimes in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27578/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had, or plans to have, any discussions with the US president or his counterparts in the US with regard to their financing and arming of Israel while it continues its assault on Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27577/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There will not be if Israel keeps bombing the Palesinians.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an absolute disgrace that the Taoiseach signed an order to exclude the Aungier Street site from a requirement to deliver social and affordable housing, and that that site is going to be handed over to private interests when we urgently need social and affordable housing on public sites. It really underlines the criticism of the Housing Commission report regarding the need for a radical...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it happen?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is not, it is up to the Government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is up to the Government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking for weeks.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a "Yes", then.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is in the your hands.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed; not unless we get commitment to a debate.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [25446/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I raise an issue with the Taoiseach about which he has received correspondence from the alliance supporting nursing homes. It wrote to the Taoiseach on 21 June 2024 regarding the national vetting service which, I believe, crosses Departments. I imagine that as it is dealt with under the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, it has implications across Government...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [27041/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious that the Taoiseach is running away from a debate on the report by the Housing Commission, which we have been asking about for weeks. One of the major contributors to the report was the NESC. It gave a presentation to the commission in March 2023, which referred to the need to engineer permanent affordability into housing policy. NESC referred to the housing policy as...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not question that?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Bodies (2 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus.