Results 3,141-3,160 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Discussion with the Ombudsman (10 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ombudsman for the presentation. Why has there been a delay in bringing forward an extension of the remit of the office? Is there political resistance to extending her remit to the bodies or agencies we hope will be included? It seems extraordinary that it has taken 27 years to do something eminently sensible and reasonable. On the issue of extending the office's remit to...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the Government's commitment to what it calls reform of the public service, and particularly of the health services. His use of the word "reform" is beginning to gain Orwellian characteristics in that it seems to mean the very opposite of what it suggests, that is, savage cuts being imposed on front line services and on some of the most vulnerable sectors...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the parents of children with severe intellectual disabilities from our constituency in Dún Laoghaire. They have found out in the past few weeks that respite services provided in Dunmore House, part of Carmona Services, are being slashed. What was previously a 24-7 respite service is proposed to be watered down to a fraction of the service that it previously was such that, for...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the extent of these brutal cuts, what the Tánaiste calls "reform". These result from cuts in funding by the HSE to these services and the public sector recruitment moratorium. Simply, will you tell me and, more important, tell the parents in the Gallery and the others who are users of this service and their children-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that you will reverse these cuts, that these services will not be touched and that you will honour your commitment to protect the most vulnerable in society, particularly vulnerable children and their families?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I have brought this issue in here is because 16 parents came into my clinic on Monday looking for help. I did not raise the issue; they did. What they want from the Tánaiste is an assurance that these cuts will be reversed - if it is necessary to lift the public sector recruitment embargo in order to provide the services as they have been, that he should do that - and for...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, the parents are quite willing to meet the management of Carmona Services, and will meet them. What they need from the Tánaiste and from the Government is a commitment that the staffing and resources will be provided in order to maintain the Angel's Quest 24-7 respite service for these people who desperately need it and whose lives will be devastated if these cuts go ahead....
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That e-mail has nothing to do with me.
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is onwards and upwards for the United Left Alliance.
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of that is debt interest?
- Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How much of the total is debt interest?
- Other Questions: Broadcasting Legislation (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean we will not reach my Question No. 9?
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Licences (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the exploratory licence recently granted to a company (details supplied), when the drilling in Dublin Bay is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43741/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Petroleum and Gas Exploration (11 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of a possible oil find in Dublin Bay, if his attention has been drawn to the pamphlet, produced by Dublin Shell to Sea Campaign, Liquid assets: Ireland's oil and gas resources and how they can be managed for the people's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43745/12]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The group of home helps, mostly low paid women workers, whom I brought to the Gallery for Leader's Question two weeks ago will hold a demonstration tomorrow against the Government's moves to cut home help hours and privatise home help services. They decided to hold this protest because they were so furious at the Taoiseach's response to the concerns I raised on their behalf and the way he...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the media are taking note of this because I can show the evidence that what the Taoiseach said is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Taoiseach will correct the record of the Dáil when I show him and the media the evidence that what he said was misleading the Dáil. I had never seen and certainly had no hand in writing the e-mail to which the Taoiseach referred.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, he did not.