Results 4,221-4,240 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As if the Government does not get enough time, it has to heckle Opposition speakers. Do you not get enough time?
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not good enough now?
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Show a bit of dignity for your office. There is a consistent pattern of the Government allowing Bills which are not unimportant - but which would not be the most important for the public or Members of the Opposition - to drag on for weeks on end. When it comes to important issues like the potential privatisation of water and the certainty of imposing charges however, the Government wants to...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making a point.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Writing in his most famous novel Ulysses between 1914 and 1921, he complains about the failure of the authorities to rehabilitate the country's decrepit water infrastructure. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been in power ever since and we have the same decrepit water infrastructure as we had when Joyce was writing about it at the beginning of the last century. Spare us the nonsense.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Spare us the nonsense of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who have had the power to rehabilitate a water infrastructure which has been utterly decrepit for the last 70 years but have done nothing to the point that 50% of the water supply leaks out of our pipes and mains.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You guys are responsible for that and you did nothing about it. Now, under the auspices of the troika deal, the Government is moving to introduce charges and metering and to establish this company. The agenda is very simple because Fine Gael has had it for a long time. It tried to introduce water charges before and was defeated by mass public opposition. Its agenda is the same as that of...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not mention his name again. Anyway, we all know who it is. Siteserv will provide contracting services for Bord Gáis. When this company was taken over, it had €110 million written off a €150 million debt owed to Anglo Irish Bank when the bank was under State control. To my mind, that says it all about what is going on. The corporate vultures in this country and...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is friendly with the Chinese dictators, but they are our enemies.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the European treaties?
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State is right in that regard.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will agree with him on that one.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State is straying.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (14 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of changes to ambulance services across the country over the last two years, he will confirm that the response time target of 19 minutes for ECHO and DELTA calls is being reached and if not, the effect this is likely to have on health and safety issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7436/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the European Union Summit on 13 and 14 December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56784/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of jobs and growth for Ireland at the European Union Summit on 13 and 14 December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56786/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of upcoming European Council meetings which he will attend and issues he intends to raise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2757/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are already indications that the deal on the IBRC which the Taoiseach trumpeted as historic will face objections from Germany in particular and possibly elsewhere, and that the Government will not be allowed to in any way attempt to use the claimed savings to the State of €1 billion next year and €1 billion the year after to pull back or alleviate in any way the austerity...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With respect, that is not what I asked the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.