Results 4,801-4,820 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Housing is what I am talking about. That is fair enough, a Cheann Comhairle. I obviously was not going to talk about aviation.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would join in the general hilarity but the issue is too serious. As I said, it is extraordinary that two years into the term of office of the Government, the housing crisis – there is no other way to describe it – has escalated. That has not been addressed in any substantial way in the Bill. We must remind ourselves – although the Minister of State might not need...
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting a serious and concrete proposal to the Minister of State and Deputy Stanley did the same. I urge the Minister of State to ask for a meeting with the European Investment Bank and put a proposal-----
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be very interested to hear-----
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Such a proposal conflicts with the policy as set out in June 2011. I look forward to the Minister of State announcing that we will reduce the waiting list of 100,000 by providing social housing directly, either through taking existing stock into public ownership or through a new social housing building programme. That is what is required to provide housing for those who so desperately need...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the result of the review promised by his Department last year in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20698/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the members of the Irish Timber Council. I am utterly opposed to the sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte, which is not just, as has been explained, a hugely valuable economic asset but a priceless cultural asset. Frankly, if one pardons the pun, it is nothing more than treason to even consider selling off the harvesting rights of our public forests. Could the witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it is Sitka spruce. I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is correct; we have citrus spruce in Dún Laoghaire.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to clarify that some of the questions I am asking about Coillte come from the perspective of utterly opposing the sale. The witnesses and others outlined some of the problems. Whatever difficulties there are, they will be made worse if we sell off the harvesting rights of Coillte. The point I am trying to get at is that some of the underperformance of Coillte is related to the fact...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that 5,000 extra hectares?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Harvesting Rights: Discussion with Irish Timber Council (2 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Mr. McNamara-----
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the end I will disagree with the central proposal of Deputy Pringle's Bill. However, I commend him on raising the issue and allowing for discussion on it because it is the most serious of issues and needs to be debated. We need to do everything we can to reduce the pressure on young women and young men to go into prostitution where they are forced to sell their bodies and sexuality for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meetings on 14 and 15 March 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18600/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those of us on the Left who have criticised the strategy pursued by the Government and European leaders have repeatedly pointed to an alternative strategy. When somebody talks about alternatives, the Taoiseach is obviously not interested. He denounces us for never having alternatives but when we try to talk about them, he does not listen. Our alternative strategy, which has been repeated...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the media to scrutinise that statement. We are borrowing €12 billion or so every year and €8 billion of that goes towards interest on debt. Will the Taoiseach please acknowledge that fact? It would be helpful in having a serious debate. A total of €8 billion, which is two thirds of what we are borrowing, is being used to pay interest on debts. That is a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair play to MicksGarage.com.
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And the Taoiseach is peddling his myths at length.
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Waterford Crystal workers, in their battle to get justice over the collapse of their pension fund, won an important ruling in the European Court of Justice that has major implications for them and the issue of pensions generally. Does the Government have legislative plans to respond to the implications of the landmark case? Is it the intention of the Government to meet the...