Results 5,021-5,040 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (23 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a progress report on the consideration of State asset disposals such as Coillte and other State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24624/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (23 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his deliberations on the proposed sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte; the recommendation he will be making in relation to this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24626/13]
- Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The troika is not an excuse for this kind of thing. The troika documents are littered with talk of structural reform and I simply cannot discern how either the Minister of State or the troika could possibly justify these cuts, which will have an adverse impact on the ability of the State to educate and retrain people, particularly those in the further education sector who are among those...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if corporate tax was discussed at the EU council meeting on 22 May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25466/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if the tax regime for oil and gas here was discussed during the talks on energy efficiency at the EU Council meeting on 22 May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25467/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Wolfgang Schäuble; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25468/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me, I am next.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not believe it time to end the cover-up in which he and his spin doctors are engaged over the growing scandal of corporation tax avoidance by multinationals? Is it not a fact that he is trying to throw mud in the eyes of the public, Deputies and his European partners in a way that will do immense damage to the international reputation about which, as he has told us many...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It fulfils all the criteria to prove that we are a tax haven.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The facts speak for themselves.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Zero tax is paid by Apple.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not according to the EU.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is going to blow up in our face.
- Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed. I do not believe the Bill should be in front of the House. It is a disgrace.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No vote was taken and no proposal or question was put to the House.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The Acting Chairman just asked the Minister to move it and asked the House to agree and I am saying I do not agree.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disgraceful attempt to intimidate public sector workers and bully them into accepting the Minister's pay cuts.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The manner and context in which this legislation is being introduced is utterly wrong and unacceptable. This Bill is an attempt to pre-empt and subvert the democratic decision of public sector workers to reject the Government's attempt to impose further cuts in their pay and conditions. It shows the Government was not acting in good faith in the negotiations. While it showed a willingness...