Results 9,821-9,840 of 26,902 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14:In page 13, to delete lines 9 to 18.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15:In page 13, lines 25 and 26, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16:In page 13, line 28, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 17:In page 13, line 30, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 18:In page 13, line 31, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 19:In page 13, line 39, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 20:In page 15, line 35, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”. I must leave shortly so I shall make a brief comment. In terms of accounts, the Bill provides that the chief executive "may" at the end of a period of three years carry out a performance review. My amendment seeks to delete "may" and substitute "shall" thus insisting that a...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With the permission of the Chair, I must leave and Deputy Ellis will deal with the remaining amendments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met the leader of the British Labour Party, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41202/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41203/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the crisis in Stormont with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41204/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having listened to Deputy Martin's questions, I am not sure what precisely Fianna Fáil's position is on this agreement, other than to score political points.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach welcomed the agreement in the first instance and has been joined in support of it by Sinn Féin. How can he and anyone who has signed up to this agreement, including Sinn Féin, seriously call this a fresh start when it is clear this is the stale, regressive old austerity? It is the Northern Ireland version of the troika assault that was imposed on people here over the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can anybody justify cutting the corporation tax rate and having the North now joining the race to the bottom where corporations that make significant profits will pay less tax while at the same time we will have cuts in social welfare and cuts affecting those on disability? According to the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development, 25% of those currently on disability living...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The health service is banged up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the health service and housing.
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are dealing with the bitter fruit of the Government's abysmal failure to deal with the housing crisis over the past four years. There has been spectacular inaction by the Government as well as misguided policies, most notably the decision in the summer of 2011, months after the Government took office, to instruct local authorities that council housing construction was to cease for the...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are notes on it. On a point of order-----
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. The amendment relates to an incentive for landlords to deal with the lack of social housing. That is what the Minister is bringing in. That is what it is about. I am pointing out that we would not even need this amendment-----
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am allowed to argue on the amendment.