Results 5,041-5,060 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will release the statement sent to him by the CDVEC on the effect the change in the pupil teacher ratio will have on colleges in the FE sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25472/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the impact that the proposed new enrolment legislation might have on enrolment policies in gaelscoileanna. [25555/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the restructuring of the NCCA; and the impact that this will hve on An Chomhairle Gaeltachta agus Gaelscoileanna. [25556/13]
- Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a joke.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a joke. We wanted to hear from-----
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Joe Higgins, Shane Ross and Mick Wallace.
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many occasions when the issues we discuss in the Chamber could almost be amusing if they were not so serious. There has been quite a bit of that today, starting with the announcement in some media that the EU Commission is issuing what were described as "much-awaited economic guidelines for member states". I would like to know by whom they are much awaited because I did not notice...
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer that.
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No way.
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry.
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State claims Ireland is not a tax haven and that we have an effective corporate tax rate of close to 12%. If that is the case, could the Minister of State explain to me and the public why the European Union's own website, which shows figures for the implicit corporate tax rate across Europe, states that Ireland's implicit tax rate is 6.8%? Contrary to the Minister of State's...
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are talking about Google Ireland.
- European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.
- Topical Issue Matters (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is three.
- Topical Issue Matters (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought there were four.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to object in the strongest terms possible to the ruling out of these amendments. I submitted 25 amendments to this Bill and 24 have been ruled out of order. That is in the context of a Bill which is being rammed through with a guillotine, which is undemocratic in its very nature in that it attempts to put a gun to the head of trade unionists in this country. It is making a sham of...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the first amendments-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The time is a joke anyway.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the whole thing is a joke. We voted against this guillotine-----