Results 241-260 of 24,382 for speaker:Seán Barrett

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: He is entitled to give way.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Minister is giving way.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: He is giving way.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: Certainly.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: That has nothing to do with house prices in this country rising by 50% in the past six months.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: The young people of Ireland are being ripped off.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Naughten, McHugh and Feighan. It is a pity the Minister decided to leave having made allegations about Members on this side of the House and our willingness to——

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: I ask the Minister of State to sit down and cease his bluster. The Minister came in, made allegations and ran from the House before we had a chance to officially address them through the Chair.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: Can the Chair give me some protection please?

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: I will not accept any nonsense from the other side of the House as I have listened to waffle for the past 40 minutes.

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: The Minister should be here as this is a debate about security. I wish to state on the record that, through the all-party committee I am proud to chair, Fine Gael is as concerned as and has policies the equivalent of, if not better than, this Government on this issue. Members of Government pretend they are the only people on earth who care about energy security and climate change but that...

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: To try to wriggle out of accepting this motion on spurious grounds is absurd and I hope the public sees this. This is a simple matter of principle that relates to the State recouping that part of a generator's income that is attributable to the free allocation of carbon allowances. It has nothing to do with energy policy but is about the ESB collecting money — it was supposed to pay for...

Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: We are returning to the emigration of the 1950s.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide appropriate adult placements for the autistic students leaving a school (details supplied) in County Dublin at the end of June 2008, particularly in view of the oral commitment at a meeting in September 2007 by the Health Service Executive disability manager that no school leaver from the school would be denied...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (5 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason this Deputy has not received an answer to Parliamentary Question No. 527 of 12 February 2008 and 544 of 17 April 2008, in relation to the numbers randomly breath-tested on roads here in 2007; the number and percentage of those who were taken to Garda stations for blood or urine testing; the number and...

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: On a point of order, I tabled a parliamentary question today to the Minister for Transport. I received a letter from the Ceann Comhairle——

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: Let me finish.

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: It was refused on the grounds that it was a repeat because it had been raised on an Adjournment debate. Since when is a parliamentary question controlled and dictated to by an Adjournment debate?

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: This is completely out of order.

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Seán Barrett: The right to ask a parliamentary question——