Results 5,601-5,620 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did you not cut across the Minister for heckling me?
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did you not-----
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I led off by saying-----
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can say, "I bristle if I hear the words public sector reform" if I like.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I bristle when I hear the words "public sector reform".
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can bristle if I want.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not addressing the Minister. I said that I bristled when I heard-----
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- the words "public sector reform".
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Chathaoirleach, I bristle when I hear the words "public sector reform".
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is unbelievable. I bristle because the term is simply a euphemism for cuts. It is as simple as that. We do not need fewer public sector workers, we need more public sector workers. We need more people cleaning the streets, cleaning the graffiti off the walls and building social housing. We need more social workers, more people working with the vulnerable in our society and more...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was possible. The matter had to be taken up with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That is the reality for vast numbers of public sector workers. They have had their pay slashed by between 15% and 20%. Now, they are having their hours increased. Numbers have been slashed with an overall loss since 2008 of 9.3% or approximately 30,000 public sector workers. As Deputy...
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to see that definition work its way through to what people do. Does it refer to someone in a housing department of a local authority who spends years dealing with the housing crisis that successive Governments have caused and who has to deal with the public and the vast and growing waiting lists? Is it the view that because they are simply clerical officers and generalists we...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out an inquiry into the reports that Shell gave boxes of alcohol as presents to the Garda station in Rossport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39809/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Governor, Professor Honohan, for his attendance. I will summarise what the banks have said last week at the committee and what the Governor has said. The banks said, more or less: "We lent in good faith - maybe a bit recklessly. A big financial crash came along and people are in difficulty but we have the right to get our money back off mortgage holders. If they would only...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a previous occasion when I asked Professor Honohan whether there could be a write-down to current market value for distressed mortgages, he asked who would pay for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The banks are going to take a bath. I put it to Professor Honohan that there is a high level of so-called non-engagement because huge numbers of people cannot afford to pay. Those to whom I refer have lost their jobs, their incomes have been reduced and they simply cannot afford their repayments. Sooner or later that is going to manifest itself and either a massive hole will be blown in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that ordinary people whose incomes have collapsed or who have lost their jobs are of the view that what the banks may consider to be sustainable is utterly unsustainable from their point of view.