Results 261-280 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Public Transport (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister to ask the Taoiseach not to spend €25 million on the visit of two individuals to this country. The money should be spent instead on increasing the subvention for Dublin Bus and providing the funds required to reinstate bus services which have been cut across Dublin.

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Nyberg report spectacularly fails to identify the causes of the financial and economic crisis in simple and straightforward language. Some €1.2 million was spent on producing 100 pages of insipid financial jargon and meaningless psychobabble that blames everybody and nobody at the same time and explains little or nothing about what created the financial and economic crisis. It is...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of the points have been made. It is extraordinary that the Labour Party would not wish to do something urgently about this unbelievable giveaway of natural resources. In responses I have heard so far from the Government, it seems to be hiding behind lame excuses, claiming the finds of billions of euro of gas and oil equivalent off the west coast are not proven and consequently this...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----our gas and oil fields will give no royalties to the Irish people. We will have no security of supply for any gas or oil that may be found off the west coast and even in regard to the taxes which are in place the companies will get tax write-offs and effectively will pay no tax whatsoever. One could not get a better definition of a giveaway. We are discussing a resource estimated to...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are running the place already.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will be created through public works programmes.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read most of the McCarthy report and I found it terrifying. It recommends asset stripping of this country which would involve the sale of vital State assets and companies - by any definition, these are strategic assets - to pay off the bankers, gamblers and speculators.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the Government's response to this document be brought before the Dáil for debate or in some other shape or form?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has not informed the House with regard to when the matter will be debated.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When precisely and under what format will the House discuss a plan to asset strip this country to pay off the bankers?

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I only received my copy at teatime yesterday.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fear is in the report.

Service with UNIFIL: Motion (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish troops have an honourable record in their deployment in Lebanon as part of the UNIFIL mission. For that reason, there is warm affection among the people of Lebanon, particularly southern Lebanon, for Irish troops and a recognition that their role, when they were deployed there between 1978 and 2001, was a genuinely benign one and a genuine peacekeeping mission. I have no doubt, in so...

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views regarding repression of the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9013/11]

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I welcome the fact the Tánaiste is concerned, we need to be honest. Concern will not be sufficient for the people of Bahrain and neither are investigations sufficient. A ruthless repression of pro-democracy protesters is taking place there. In recent days, hundreds of the people who organised the pro-democracy protest, who were calling for nothing more than democracy-----

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----have been arrested and detained without trial. The daughter of one of these people is on hunger strike in protest. It is a brutal situation. Saudi Arabia has been involved in supporting this regime. I suggest we need more than expressions of concern from the European Union. Ireland should challenge at European level and also with our US friends the unbelievable inconsistency of...

Foreign Conflicts (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it? What concrete actions are we going to call on them to take? I do not believe bombing is the way forward in Libya, but I thought it was absolutely right for sanctions to be imposed on the Gadaffi regime for what it was doing to the pro-democracy movement in that country. Why are we not calling clearly for sanctions to be imposed against Bahrain and against...

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will lend his support to the planned international peace flotilla to Gaza in which an Irish ship and Irish citizens will be participating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8810/11]

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tánaiste to reconsider this issue. The more widespread and prominent the support that is given to the flotilla, the greater chance it has of getting through and bringing aid and support to the besieged people of Gaza. If, for example, there was a Government representative on board one of those ships, it would make it far less likely that Israel would attack it. For that reason,...

Humanitarian Aid (21 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to do something; words are not enough. The Tánaiste did not indicate whether the Government will follow through on the call by his party colleagues, Deputy Costello and Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, to bring charges against Israel for its involvement in the brutal invasion of Gaza in 2006 and for its attack on the aid flotilla which was, by any standards, an illegal and immoral act of...