Results 4,201-4,220 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the only thing that gets results.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach hates to admit it, but it is the only thing that gets results.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it going to be the end of anything?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Finance Bill is being published today. Where are the exemptions?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Therefore, the truth about the deal becomes clear. It is not going to make a whit of difference-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the people who are being hammered by cuts and on whom it is now planned to impose a further burden amounting to hundreds of euro a year by way of property charges. I know damn well that the Finance Bill under which this burden is going to be imposed was passed at the end of last year. However, given that the Taoiseach claims that we have saved ourselves billions of euro, why will...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----such as fully qualified nurses who cannot pay their bills? Why are there no exemptions or relief for them? Is that the truth about the deal made last week and the so-called exemptions being announced today, namely, that there is nothing for the people who are being hammered?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that the best the Taoiseach can do?
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Along with many others I have raised the fact that the exemptions proposed-----
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the finance Bill are inadequate and they do not deal with the distress-----
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The finance Bill.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will allow me to finish because he has allowed everyone else go on.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have, actually.
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If those in the Opposition are going to propose amendments allowing for further exemptions for those in mortgage distress, those who are unemployed and other groups whom we believe cannot afford to pay, will the Taoiseach give a commitment that those amendments will not be ruled out of order and that we will be allowed to put forward those amendments?
- European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In his State of the Union address yesterday President Obama who is not a radical left winger argued strongly against the Republican majority in Congress which is seeking further spending cuts. He argued that spending cuts would be a disaster for the American economy and that what was needed was a stimulus and certainly not retrenchment. Is he not right in this regard? He does not go as far...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he has looked at proposed changes to 16 and 17 year olds being seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; if he is satisfied that this will have no detrimental impact on mental health services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56766/12]
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Chair give me a five minute warning?
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Like a number of other speakers, I protest in the strongest terms about the fact that the debate has been guillotined.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a credible, consistent pattern from the Government that promised a democratic revolution-----
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and a new level of transparency in Irish politics-----