Results 241-260 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Order of Business (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Deputy will tell us about it.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not really an answer. Reports have been circulating in the media about the Garda and a bill for €25 million for security for the visits. Nobody knows the figure - certainly I do not - but perhaps the Taoiseach knows whether that figure is part of such a cost or is the total considerably greater? Who will pay for it? Is it to come from the Taoiseach's Department? The public are...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or public services that were cut could be restored. Is it not merely rubbing the noses of the Irish public, who have been slaughtered with cuts, to invite one of the richest women in the world to this country for a jamboree or to spend millions on bringing over the American President when that President is involved in a war in Afghanistan, is arming and financing dictatorships in the...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach may be aware the previous visit to Dún Laoghaire was accompanied by a protest organised by none other than James Connolly. It was a justified protest because the monarch represented and symbolised vast inherited wealth and the subjugation of poor people in this country. To bring it up to date, is it not incredible for the Taoiseach to say we will only know the cost of these...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not have a responsibility to tell the public, before these visits, how much they will cost so that we can debate as a society whether that is the best way to spend that money rather than putting it into the services people need and into job creation programmes-----

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----rather than for a jamboree for one of the wealthiest women in the world and one of the world's most powerful men?

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our harbour has not been sold.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A ballpark figure.

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder will they travel around throwing cake to the peasants.

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While everyone welcomes inward investment, particularly if it is ethical in nature and is aimed at making a serious contribution to our society, is it not a major mistake to bet the entire economic future of the country on the hope of such investment? A necessary accompaniment to this type of investment is a ratcheting down of taxes on business and wealth. This produces an unsustainable...

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not also time to state that rather than just betting our economic future on inward investment, we must concentrate on developing an indigenous industrial base which is sustainable and which will not be vulnerable to the shocks and ups and downs that occur in the global market? We are aware that the latter is desperately unstable because it is driven by profit and competition rather...

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Higgins is right to be hysterical.

Inward Investment (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am Deputy Boyd Barrett. The Ceann Comhairle is Deputy Barrett.

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his views on the Dublin bus network direct and its impact on communities across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8595/11]

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the number of bus drivers that will lose their jobs as a result of network direct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8596/11]

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I found the Minister of State's response rather depressing. It was the same stuff I had heard from Dublin Bus when I asked it about the savage cutbacks to bus services across Dublin. I remind the Minister of State that before the general election, a policy document suggested "the bus remains the only public transport option with the short and medium term capacity to meet the growing...

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Deputy suggesting the Queen is more important than the elderly?

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She will not be using Dublin Bus.

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State's offer and will take him up on it. However, this is a much bigger issue. Thousands of elderly people in Dublin, including those who are immobile or disabled, have been affected by cuts to many bus routes, including the Nos. 3, 5, 10, 13a, 25x and 38c routes. There has been a disastrous attack on bus services, including Nitelink services, which are needed by...

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask where is the money?