Results 6,841-6,860 of 26,897 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why was she not prepared to do so? Was it because it might have been bugged?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should have picked up the phone to the Minister, Deputy Shatter, and asked him what he knew.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not much of it going around.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There should be no ambiguity about our attitude to the Russian actions in Ukraine. They should be condemned outright. President Putin’s regime is vile. It has been involved in vicious repression of the Pussy Riot movement and gay people and carried on a terrible and brutal campaign of Russian imperialism in the smaller nations surrounding Russia which has earned it the title, Prison...
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is not out of order.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister of State to comment on the property sector. I have spoken previously about the growing homelessness and housing crisis but the macro-economic dimension of this issue has not been discussed. I raised the issue with the Fiscal Advisory Council at the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. The council was introduced by the troika to...
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government concerned about this or is anybody in Europe discussing it? The point of the troika's intervention and the establishment of the Fiscal Advisory Council was supposedly to ensure these kind of imbalances do not arise again.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the question.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are these issues being discussed or is the focus solely on banks recovering value from asset portfolios?
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair only interrupts Members from the Technical Group.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. First, the Minister of State did not respond on the contrast between Europe's apparent concern in Ukraine to uphold territorial integrity and sovereignty as a fundamental principle, which is what the Taoiseach stated, and its absolute failure to do that in relation to Palestine. In fact, these are starkly contrasting approaches. One country gets sanctioned for...
- Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Attorney General briefed the Taoiseach about the seriousness of the bugging, the Minister was briefed on Monday and then the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality went to see the Garda Commissioner. Did the Minister know the Secretary General of his Department was going and what he was going to say to the Garda Commissioner or what he did say? Could the Minister...
- Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What matters was he told to discuss with the Garda Commissioner?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a detailed report on the disease discovered in Gougane Barra Forest Park, County Cork and the subsequent felling of trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13944/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Staff (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the pension deficit difficulties now facing Coillte; his plans to deal with this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on the same line of questioning, do we know how many customers, in particular mortgage holders, ICS has?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on the same line of thought that we might consider the implication of this legislation for real human beings and families, maybe it would be useful to find that information out. Is there any intention on the part of the Department to notify or alert customers with ICS that legislation in the offing which could affect their mortgages or deposits? Has that been discussed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that after the legislation or before it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That means after the fact, or after legislation has been passed to facilitate the transfer of people's mortgages and deposits to Bank of Ireland to be sold on to some unknown party, they will be notified that this will happen. Am I correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I not correct in saying that it will be utilised and that is why we are passing the legislation?