Results 3,421-3,440 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the reason that the Adult Refugee Programme in Ringsend College and Ballsbridge College, Dublin, is being earmarked for closure while other courses and agencies, for example, ALCES, BTEI, DALC continue to be funded. [49940/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (13 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all the Garda stations in the State with full details of the ownership of the land and buildings. [49925/12]
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish League of Credit Unions which represents 3 million members asked specifically in its submission on this legislation that there be no attempt to foreclose debate on the Credit Union Bill in the House. It has expressed extreme concern about the potential damage that may be done to the fundamental, voluntary and democratic ethos of credit unions. It is also deeply concerned that the...
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what has been proposed on the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean the guillotine will be lifted?
- Topical Issue Debate: Death of Ms Savita Halappanavar (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is truly incredible that it is 20 years since the terrible and tragic circumstances of the X case, which led to an enormous public outcry about the Supreme Court judgment and to referendums that concluded that abortion must be allowed where there is a threat to the life of the mother. Twenty years on, after nothing but political cowardice and dithering, we have been led to a situation in...
- Topical Issue Debate: Death of Ms Savita Halappanavar (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the terrible circumstances surrounding the death of Savita, the Minister's response is grossly inadequate and utterly fails to acknowledge his responsibility and the responsibility of the Government to act to ensure there could be no question of a woman's life being threatened because she could not receive the medical treatment she needed because of the current legal situation in this...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Access (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the situation of the town of Bani Walid in Libya where the conditions for the civilian population are grave and where many believe there is a pending humanitarian disaster; if he will call for international pressure on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50198/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the statement made by German Minister Wolfgang Schauble, Finland's Jutta Urpilainen and Dutch Minister Jan Kees de Jager following a meeting in Helsinki on 25 September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41634/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Debt Restructuring (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will discuss the statement made by German Minister Wolfgang Schauble, Finland's Jutta Urpilainen and Dutch Minister Jan Kees de Jager following a meeting in Helsinki on 25 September at the upcoming European Council meeting on 18 and 19 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41635/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Transaction Tax (14 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance if he raised the issue of the Financial Transaction Tax in Europe at the meeting with the European Commission in Brussels on 3 October; and if he indicated this as a priority for the forthcoming EU presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43087/12]
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to press the Tánaiste in respect of legislation that has been promised for the 20 years since the judgment was handed down in the X case. He indicated that the response of the Government is conditional on the report to which he referred.
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a speech, I am posing a very straightforward question.
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In view of the tragic circumstances relating to this case, is the Tánaiste in a position to indicate when the Government proposes to publish the report? Why can the report not be published today-----
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in order that the public and Members on all sides of the House would be in a position to consider it-----
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----before the Government has time to put its own spin on it? The Government should open up the books and everybody should have a chance to look at them.
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a question.
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the report be published?
- Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He will not tell us what we want to know.