Results 9,101-9,120 of 26,902 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 870. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the chief executive officer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company receives a basic salary of €136,000 and the chief executive officers of New Ross Port Company, Wicklow Port Company, Galway Harbour Company, and Drogheda Port Company are employed under the salary range chief executive officers of commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 875. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to this Deputy's previous parliamentary question and his reply regarding the chief executive officer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company receiving €19,877 in lieu of annual leave, if he accepts that under the Organisation of Working Time Act it is illegal for someone to sell an entitlement to annual leave; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 898. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1032 of 26 May 2015 and his response that his Department raised this matter with the incoming chairperson of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, who was on the audit committee at the time, appointed in 2013; and given that the previous chairperson authorised this payment, if he will confirm whether...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 902. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous a parliamentary question with regard to the chief executive officer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company (details supplied), receiving a payment of €19,877 for selling back annual leave, and given that the current directors are also on the audit committee of the Harbour Company which agreed this, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 871. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a company entitled the International Diaspora Centre being established in 2011 by the Board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company in 2011 without Government approval at the time, if he will confirm that Government approval was only sought in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 872. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the names of the directors of the International Diaspora Centre Company on the date of incorporation with the Companies Office in 2011; the persons who appointed these directors; the changes in directors from 2011 to date in 2015; if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of directors' fees...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 873. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm if the International Diaspora Centre Company has any employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23218/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to this Deputy's previous parliamentary questions regarding the outstanding expenses to be repaid by a a former board member (details supplied) to Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, and his reply that legal action has been initiated by the harbour company to recover this money, if he will provide the details of the date the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 899. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that it now appears that a board member (details supplied) of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company claimed expenses to which that person was not entitled, if he will confirm if any proceedings have been initiated with regards to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23627/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 897. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the meaning of the term "other" in the profit and loss account as issued by Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; if he will accept that the term "other" could include a performance-related bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23625/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Appointments (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 900. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that there is a vacancy on the board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company if a worker director will now be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23628/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 901. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous parliamentary questions if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all directors' fees and expenses paid to a person (details supplied) for a directorship previously held by that person on boards under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23629/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 903. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1031 of 26 May 2015 his views on whether fees to chairpersons and members of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company should be reduced in line with the fees paid to the chairpersons and members of Drogheda, Galway, New Ross and Wicklow as laid down, or alternatively that fees to the companies in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we try seven minutes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue on the same lines, I find it pretty amazing and quite shocking that neither the Minister nor the European Commissioner with responsibility for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Commissioner Hill, whom I met yesterday, will give any detail about the gap between the European Union and the Greek Government, when we talk about that gap potentially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I do not accept. We are not getting the details of the gap. We are not supposed to be talking about conflicting sides. In a negotiation between a nightwatchman and an employer, arguably they are conflicting sides. We are talking about people who are supposed to be partners. Greece is supposed to be a partner in the European Union. All sides are supposed to be working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is what brings it back to the common ground between us and the Greeks. Greece has a primary surplus. It is not spending more than it is taking in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no significant gap between what the Greeks are taking in and what they are spending. The only issue at stake is the payment of the debt. Yet the one thing Europe is saying, even though Greece is more or less in balance and may still have a slight surplus, is that it must pay the debt, whatever it takes and no matter how much suffering it may inflict, and that Europe is willing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I get one more question in? I take the Minister's point, but I disagree with it and it is very revealing. What the Minister is saying now, and he is giving us a little more information, is that there actually is a vindictive agenda. As if Greece has not taken enough punishment, when one looks at the humanitarian indexes of that country, we are not going to allow a situation where they...