Results 6,061-6,080 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why in the witnesses' opinion do countries such as Germany, Britain, Norway and others set a distance from the coast inside which these things are not permitted? Do the witnesses not think they have good reasons for doing this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The strategic environmental assessment, SEA, looked generally at the potential environmental impact of developing energy resources in the offshore. An issue arose in relation to oil rigs that could potentially arise in relation to the Dublin Array project. It was suggested in the context of the oil rig that the SEA covered the requirement for an environmental impact assessment, which we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any danger in terms of this Bill that we are doing away with the need for specific projects to be properly assessed environmentally?
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on Ireland's obligations under the fiscal treaty and other EU rules in terms of debt and deficit reduction, budgeting and monitoring following an exit from the troika programme; the implications of these obligations for future budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49253/13]
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has been celebrating his plan to exit the troika programme. Some of us believe this is a complete mirage, particularly in the light of the various budgetary surveillance and monitoring and post-programme monitoring rules that will be applied by the European Union and the troika. Furthermore, we will also be obliged to meet requirements to reduce our deficit and pay down huge...
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The sheer length of the Minister's reply and the level of detail provided tell a story. On leaving the programme, Ireland will be subject to just as rigorous a regime of budgetary surveillance, monitoring and debt and deficit reduction as it endured under the programme. Behind all the jargon, technocratic language and interesting names for the various programmes lies the fact that we will...
- Other Questions: EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that the information is not new but the issue is not being clarified for citizens. As the Minister correctly stated, if growth does not materialise, Ireland will be in deep trouble because, unlike every other country in Europe, we have a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120% and a debt-to-GNP ratio of 150%. The requirement to pay down €200 billion in debt that is not ours will be a...
- Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the unusual anomaly recently highlighted by his Department, where growth has failed to match forecasts but the employment/unemployment situation has apparently improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49254/13]
- Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's officials pointed to this anomaly at a pre-budget briefing. We do not have growth, but the Minister is claiming an improved position in terms of employment and unemployment. The ABC of economics says if we have more people working, it is contributing to GDP. How can the Minister claim there is an improvement in the employment position when we do not have the growth to match...
- Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, can we put down amendments to this motion?
- Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is quite extraordinary. We got this motion yesterday at 4.50 p.m. and amendments were to be in by 9.30 a.m. this morning. That was before we got to hear what the Minister had to say about the bailout exit. How are we supposed to make an informed response to this motion without actually hearing what the Minister has to say? That is ridiculous. This is a bogus debate. It is an utter...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Children should not have to go through that when they are sick.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not have to ask.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a sick man from Castlebar talking to me-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still going on.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What has that got to do with disadvantaged areas?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should come off it.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is reading from the wrong script.
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, at 4.59 p.m., we received notification of the Government's motion on exiting the EU bailout programme, on which the House will vote later today. No mention was made of a deadline for amendments either when we received the motion or subsequently. When I asked this morning whether we could table an amendment to the Government's motion, I was told the deadline had passed. How can...
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What are the requirements?