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- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Taoiseach whipped it off the table.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly it is not.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State happy, notwithstanding the sham debate that sometimes takes place between the Government and Fianna Fáil, that Fianna Fáil in its comments today has joined the Government side in the vilification, bullying and misrepresentation of the position of the Greek Government as it resists the outrageous political bullying of and economic terrorism being inflicted on...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I will ask a question. The troika is determined to punish the Greek Government because it wants to keep its political promises. Does the Minister of State not think that is a shameful attack on the basic principles of democracy, that he, Fianna Fáil and the troika are supporting? They are affronted by the idea that a government might keep its election promises and they are...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were several questions and they were very clearly articulated.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is common ground between Fianna Fáil and the Government.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The rates of suicide and infant mortality have increased.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Minister of State say he or the EU are interested in negotiation or flexibility with the Greek Government when he supported the EU's stance of “take it or leave it”? The EU proposed a plan and told the Greek Government to accept it or else it would pull the plug. It is blackmail, not negotiation.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We deserve an answer to this. In the response to the complaints made about the manner in which the Minister at the last minute put in these very substantial amendments the line the Government gave out was that all this was well flagged. That was the line repeated ad nauseam at the weekend by the media, that all these changes were well flagged. Can the Minister of State explain why, if they...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----unless he was attempting to deliberately bypass the Second and Committee Stage debates where there would be proper scrutiny, oversight and debate on those issues? There can be no other explanation. If the Minister of State believes in the democratic process and a proper legislative procedure, this Bill has to go back to Committee Stage when we can properly scrutinise these amendments.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There it is again “well flagged”.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of the meeting.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard it.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is possible to recommit them.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is from one of the Government's own.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no time limit.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The sort of skulduggery at the back of this amendment and the various other amendments brought forward at the last minute to circumvent the normal process of legislative scrutiny and oversight is precisely what has brought people to the streets this evening and precisely what has brought unprecedented numbers onto the streets in fury and anger during the past year. They are there because of...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not having fun when I see this stuff. It is not fun scrambling around trying to figure out what is in legislation only to discover that we are extending one of the most controversial aspects of what the Government has done over the past year. I refer to the fact that property taxes and motor taxes are going into Irish Water. That is not funny. If one asks the demonstrators to...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a red herring to suggest that we do not care about rural dwellers and the money they pay into group water schemes. Our position is that people have a human right to water. That includes rural dwellers and people in group water schemes. They should not have to pay for water other than through central taxation. The infrastructure for rural areas should be provided through progressive...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can tell the Minister of State that I am tired of standing here and I would much rather be somewhere else. I honestly feel, however, that the more we keep this discussion going the more the people out there will have an opportunity to look at the details of what the Government is doing. What has been done in circumventing Second and Committee Stages was a deliberate attempt to hoodwink...