Results 7,101-7,120 of 26,897 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disaster. Wake up.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Build more houses, urgently.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a fantasy. Dream on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed unemployment and growth at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16188/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed banking and sovereign debt at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16189/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed trade and services across Europe at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16190/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he held private meetings with counterparts at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16191/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any discussions on Ireland's housing and property sector at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16192/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any discussions on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16193/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not stop Fine Gael councillors voting for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about two issues regarding Davos, one of which the Taoiseach addressed and the second he did not. I want to clarify that the Taoiseach did not talk about it when he should have. On the matter he talked about, fairly astonishingly, one of the big issues discussed at Davos was inequality and the need to address it. I will briefly pass over the enormous irony of some of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has done a good job of that.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that only larch trees were removed from Gougane Barra; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20346/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licence Application Numbers (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the tidy up operations after the recent storms and particularly in regard to trees on roadsides and on private lands which were not commercial plantations, the number of felling licences that were issued for health and safety issues and/or other reasons connected to the storms; the record of site inspections prior to...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of tree health reports compiled by arborists or tree surgeons that were examined by the Forest Service before issuing licences to cut dangerous trees during the same period, from 20 December to date; the number of these tree health reports that were requested by the Forest Service before issuing licences; and if he will...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will assist in preventing a person (details supplied) from becoming homeless by extending their rent supplement for the duration of their time in receipt of illness benefit. [20475/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome everyone here. I also welcome this discussion because there is no more urgent discussion to have and I hope it will lead to action and policy change. Do the delegations categorise the current situation as a crisis? I want to know because one cannot begin to address the problem unless one alerts people to how serious it is. Maybe the problem is more acute in my area than in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I have a couple of more questions and the first one is on rent caps. I am not in favour of pumping rent allowance into the pockets of private landlords but rents are spiralling. Should we vary rent caps in the short term? Community welfare officers are restricted to a rent allowance cap. Can the council confirm that the councils in RAS arrangements often pay way over the cap in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there spaces available in the hostel?