Results 4,041-4,060 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps we should get Starbucks involved.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is everybody's fault but yours.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Taoiseach should ask Ronald McDonald to deal with this problem.
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past week, the economist Peter Bacon has joined the chorus of voices who are, in polite language, saying the Government's plan to sell the harvesting rights to Coillte represents economic and financial madness. The plan is to give away a vital resource that could generate many jobs and considerable revenue for the State. It could be given away for a song. Incredibly, at a meeting of...
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the forestry Bill come before this House before the Taoiseach concludes any deal to sell off our forestry, or will he allow for some debate in this House on the merits, or otherwise, of the sale of our national forestry to, say, Swiss wealth asset managers or the Chinese Government?
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know that.
- Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt about the madness of giving away our trees.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to his announcement last December of his intention to designate the area around Rockabill to Dalkey Island as a special area of conservation, if he has discussed the implications of this with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the person who audits the accounts of local authorities; the reason that the Comptroller and Auditor General does not audit the accounts of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4647/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Election of Chairman (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to seek clarification on several issues the petitioner has raised. Through the investigations of the secretariat, we have uncovered that the 2008 application form was cross-referenced to the 2005 application with regard to cross-compliance which seems to support the petitioner’s assertion that he acted in good faith and not, as was suggested by the Department, fraudulently in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I support that proposal. The recent report showing a dramatic increase in suicide levels over the past several years, particularly among young people, means this is an issue that we need to take seriously. The suggestion that there would be a national campaign sponsored by the Government on suicide awareness would be absolutely beneficial.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an issue that most of us have come across as public representatives. It appears there is a gap in the legislation or regulations in this area. The Minister for Justice and Equality has indicated that his Department is working on legislation to provide for some sort of scheme of compulsory mediation and restrictions on height.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should press the Minister on when the legislation will be introduced and suggest that he might look to the UK and elsewhere for templates for regulating this area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I concur.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question relates directly to the Minister's Department and policies. Last year, there was an outcry from families of children with special needs about the dramatic increase in the refusal of the domiciliary care allowance, a consequent alarming increase in the number of appeals and the waiting times for those appeals, which often went up to a year. In a parliamentary question I put to...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not really answer my question. In so far as there has been an improvement to the domiciliary care allowance, I give credit to the staff.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I give most credit to-----
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister had her chance. I give most credit to the families who came out on the streets last year and embarrassed the Government into acknowledging the disgraceful mistreatment of families with special needs. They forced the Minister to address the problem, but it is now being moved to another area. She has completely failed to address the fact that since the Government took office the...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can provide the statistics.