Results 7,841-7,860 of 26,901 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 7 May 2014, in view of a person's (details supplied) rent allowance being withdrawn without the review mentioned; if the allowance will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39800/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the CER clarify its role in the area of water conservation? Some of us do not believe that Irish Water has got anything to do with water conservation at all and that it is just another money-grab that is going to cost people a fortune. I would like to ask the witnesses what precisely they consider their role to be in the area of water conservation and how they are going to act to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Surely the costs are fixed for all these things, for maintenance and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if someone does not want one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think that is what they were asking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So Ms Mannion does not know whether there is a fee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had one other question that was not answered.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take great satisfaction from the fact that on Saturday, 11 October the Government's spin and trumpeting of recovery were blown out of the water by an unprecedented mobilisation of 100,000 people taking to the streets-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and saying, "We don't buy-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the clock.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The people who are sovereign made clear their views on all of the Government's spin and claims of success. They came out to declare that they have had enough and that all of the Government's trickery in terms of the hated regressive water charges and property taxes is meaningless. People want them abolished and to be given real relief. The Government is panic stricken and back peddling at...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got a totally different ruling on that Standing Order.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Except that it was interpreted in a different way a year ago.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what you said last year.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the Government of Iraq’s recent call for a global ban on depleted uranium weapons, the Houses of the Oireachtas past support for an Irish domestic ban on the weapons, and the European Parliament’s recommendation to the Council of Ministers this year that member states seek a common position in favour of both a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the conversion of Moneypoint power station to biomass as a move towards meeting our European targets for renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40482/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question concerns the raging debate about the need to consider options such as biomass as opposed to plans for industrial wind farm, which have been the subject of much of the focus. Some €3.8 billion is planned to be spent on boosting our transmission system to facilitate controversial large wind turbines. There are major arguments against this and I do not have the time to go...