Results 861-880 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is legislation.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Legislation will be brought forward to secure the sale of those State assets.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done so several times.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not work.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have experienced exactly the same frustration as has been expressed by others-----
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because they all get transferred.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put in about six or seven questions last week. The majority of my questions are being transferred.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give the Taoiseach a few examples.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Why, for example, when I asked a question as to whether the Taoiseach had met personally with the EU-IMF delegation during their visit, was that transferred? When I asked a question about the Taoiseach's role in the Economic Management Council, that question was ruled as being subject to Cabinet confidentiality. In addition, a document that we got as new Deputies referred to the fact...
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not meaningless at all.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if the Taoiseach met them.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Taoiseach did not meet them.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question about the Economic Management Council refused on the basis of Cabinet confidentiality.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I then asked what areas were subject to Cabinet confidentiality and I was told that was subject to Cabinet confidentiality. This is just bizarre. Can I specifically ask, in the area-----
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I have made my point, but the Taoiseach did not answer the other question I asked.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am getting nowhere on that. A document given to us stated the Taoiseach would answer questions on economic and social affairs. Given the severity of the economic crisis and the concern we all have with economic and social affairs, it is not good enough to have questions in these areas batted off to Ministers who can only be questioned once every four weeks and only then by a kind of...
- Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach heads off to this meeting, has it dawned on him even a little that the EU, IMF and ECB simply do not have a clue what they are doing, that the policy of bailing out the bankers and the bondholders and imposing brutal austerity on ordinary people is not only unjust but is making the crisis worse and is spreading the contagion? Has it occurred to him - flashed on his radar...
- Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If necessary.
- Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Policies, policies.
- Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The pain and suffering of people who have been victims of abuse by church institutions is just too horrific to describe. In that context the catalogue of abuse, and cover-up by the church authorities of it, and failure to act is an absolute outrage. While this motion constitutes a good start in being so critical of the church authorities, Members must go considerably further. First, as...