Results 4,301-4,320 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Tánaiste answer the question?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pay cuts.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the details of the new Croke Park deal become clear, it is evident this Government is going to continue its vendetta against low and middle income public sector workers, who have seen between 15% and 20% of their income cut over recent years. With levies and the universal social charge, they have given up €1.5 billion in savings, shed thousands of public sector jobs and seen their...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach back off and impose the burden of this crisis on the corporations on which he will not even impose a slight extra bit of tax, or on the very wealthy earning in excess of €100,000 year?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Go after those who can afford it, not the same targets again and again.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not the oldest negotiating trick in the world to start negotiations by demanding the absolutely unmanageable and then falling back with a few concessions and trying to present them as palatable? No doubt, that is a negotiating trick that the former union officials such as the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Tánaiste taught the Taoiseach from their...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about taxing corporations?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the involvement he will have in the running of the EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2756/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of his Department's budget that has been allocated to hosting the EU Presidency; if he will provide a breakdown of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2758/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the meetings he is involved in as part of the EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2759/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings, if any, he has had while in Strasbourg in January and if he will report on these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2763/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with President Van Rompuy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5486/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if the issue of unemployment in Ireland and the Eurozone was discussed at his meeting with European Council President Van Rumpuy in Dublin in January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8566/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issue of Ireland's legacy bank debt with Jose Manuel Barroso at the meeting with him on 10 January 2013 [9965/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was reported earlier in the year that the amount spent on the Presidency of the Council of the European Union would be €70 million, which is twice what the Danish Presidency paid. Does the Taoiseach believe that is acceptable when we are talking about further cruel cuts to low- and middle-income workers, including firefighters, gardaí and nurses, many of whom will probably be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Twice what the Danes spent.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, thank you. I am not being a miserable skinflint or extremist in suggesting the budget for the Presidency might be excessive.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree that the budget is excessive when we are proposing to spend twice as much as the Danish Presidency - in the region of €70 million - and when many of those who will be catering for and facilitating delegates coming to events are being hammered with cuts? They are being placed in extreme financial distress as a result of decisions being made by the EU...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be a useful trip for delegates and give them a sense of the reality of what their austerity measures are doing to the State. To be happy-clappy and handing out ties, scarves and mugs when the country is being battered with austerity policies is to take the stage Irishman act a little too far. We should be pointing out to delegates the grim reality that their determination to force...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (26 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure is €70 million.