Results 3,761-3,780 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The points have largely been made. However, I make one last appeal to the Tánaiste not to play the political games that he accuses us of playing when, in fact, he is playing them.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Government's decision to allocate 20 hours to the Savita Halappanavar debate.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was not asked for on this side of the House. It is now apparent that it was a cynical manoeuvre on the Government's part to truncate the time allowed to debate the budget and the Social Welfare Bill.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All we are asking for is for the Government to adjust the Order of Business to allow sufficient time to discuss the specific provisions included in this Bill and the amendments submitted by the Opposition in order that we have an opportunity to scrutinise all aspects of the Bill as we are supposed and obliged to do in the House. The Government is preventing us from doing this.
- Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We wanted the Government to pass legislation on the matter.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a point of order.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was my point of order.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Say nothing.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief. The people the Minister is hitting with this measure will also be affected by cuts to the clothing and footwear allowances, child benefit and the property tax. We are talking about many hundreds of euro being taken from the income of people who are doing a service to the State by looking after their loved ones. To take this action is obnoxious and nauseating. One cannot...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have been cut also.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My apologies, but they have been cut also.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are included in the amendments.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Lift the guillotine.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Minister not answer the question we asked about alternatives?
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Reverse it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tick, tock.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Respite care.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tick, tock.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to say the same. This has been a model exercise in how the Oireachtas should work. Organisations representing the credit union movement made their views known about the Bill initially proposed by the Government. Representatives of various parties listened to those concerns and brought them to the attention of the Government which took action to change the Bill as a result. That is...