Results 4,921-4,940 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (15 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, MANDATE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (15 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to ask people with more relevant expertise for their opinions. This concerns procedures for making complaints or taking actions against senior officers in the military by lower ranking officers. The petitioner is claiming that there is no mechanism for doing so, but I suspect that none of us knows. I suggest that we contact the Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative...
- Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those estimates are wrong.
- Order of Business (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Justice and Equality has announced that he intends to table amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill giving himself the power to shut down mobile phone networks in advance of the G8 summit. This move comes alongside what can only be described as a huge campaign of hype and hysteria whereby drone planes are being brought in and thousands of police are also being brought over...
- Order of Business (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this legislation part of a systematic campaign to try to intimidate peaceful protesters at the G8 summit? These peaceful protesters against war and militarism will be intimidated and bullied North and South.
- Order of Business (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do we need these powers?
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the chance to speak on the Taxi Regulation Bill. The starting point in discussing the Bill is to say the situation in the taxi industry is a very powerful example of the utter bankruptcy of the free market deregulation ideology which Mary Harney, Bobby Molloy and their Fianna Fáil counterparts were responsible for applying with such dire consequences. It is worth noting in...
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister of State has. I am not disputing that. I have also been quite involved in this issue over the years. I marched in the protest against deregulation, not because I did not recognise the need for more taxis but because the taxi drivers who marched against deregulation warned what would happen, and they were correct. Subsequently, I have joined many campaigns, protests...
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that it is difficult. What they informed me is that, subsequently, a taxi forum has been set up which brings all of these groups together.
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to signal this and follow the debate and the discussion. I will not pre-empt the matter, but persons who I believe have credibility state there was a problem. Probably for historical reasons as well as historical failures, there is a significant lack of confidence in the authorities and the regulatory regime. The Minister of State must go out of his way to be inclusive, in terms of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the ongoing Syrian crisis and escalating regional tensions in the Middle East at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22631/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the humanitarian crisis as a result of the ongoing blockade of Gaza at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22632/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the US President's priorities for the forthcoming G8 summit in Fermanagh at their recent meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22633/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the closure of the US prison in Guantanamo and the release of prisoners at his meeting with US President Obama in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22634/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest to the Taoiseach that it is time for the Government to stop the big lie about corporate tax in this country and the claim that we are not a tax haven. The evidence is now mounting all around us that we are a tax haven, and that we are one of the worst culprits in facilitating multinational corporations and financial vultures to dodge their tax liabilities and obligations to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are talking about corporation tax and everybody else is talking about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no shortage of reasons to protest.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At the weekend, a national newspaper indicated that it had heard from some source in the Government that a merger was being considered between Bord na Móna and Coillte. We obviously have the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, saying the sale of Coillte will not go ahead, while the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon...
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are waiting for the announcement.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When is the question.