Results 1,201-1,220 of 26,842 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deeply frustrated that I cannot ask a supplementary.
- Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I did not hear the beginning of the Taoiseach's answer, could he clarify if the National Economic and Social Council is the only State agency for which his Department is responsible? If that is the agency for which his Department is responsible, why was a question I put down to him some time ago asking him to comment on a report produced by the council passed to the Minister for Finance...
- Departmental Agencies (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Council.
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As with so many issues before the election, Fine Gael and the Labour Party were full of fine words, noble sentiments and not a few specific promises when it came to the protection of our health services, accident and emergency services and hospitals in general. The Fine Gael pre-election document spoke about having the most ambitious plan for the health service since the establishment of the...
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are downgrades good?
- Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have some upgrades?
- Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the living conditions of asylum seekers living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31226/11]
- Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the role of a company (details supplied) in deportation flights from Ireland; the way this company is operating here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31225/11]
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett on behalf of People before Profit.
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad the Government finds the current crisis in Europe so amusing.
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find Deputy Buttimer amusing as well.
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amusement is not the reason we are here. Given the severity of the crisis ripping through the eurozone and the serious uncertainty about the outcome of this crisis, the very least the people of this country are entitled to is that the Taoiseach would report back after the European Council meeting to discuss the outcome and the implications of it. Given that even the Taoiseach has...
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----we also deserve a proper report on the outcome in regard to that issue.
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Greeks got a write-down because they resisted. We have got nothing because we kowtowed. As we approach the budget, and ordinary people in this country are quaking in their boots at the prospect of further austerity measures, surely we deserve a proper debate before next Wednesday on the Taoiseach's plan to hand over almost â¬0.75 billion to the bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank when he...
- Order of Business (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Make it Tuesday and Wednesday.
- EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Ye proposed it.
- EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The deference and submission of this Government to the diktats of the EU and IMF would be understandable if the troika's strategy showed any sign at all in the last two years of working and any measure of success in containing the crisis and helping to move Europe in a positive direction. It is bizarre in the extreme, given the utter disarray at the European Council, that the Taoiseach...
- EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is simple; the Government must stop paying off the bondholders. The State must then take over the banking system, decide its priorities and invest in jobs and economic growth.
- EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should refuse to pay the next instalment of â¬750 million to Anglo Irish Bank's bondholders.
- EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should refuse to pay â¬3 billion to those bondholders next year and for ten years thereafter. That is the alternative. It is about time this Government broke its addiction to the failed neoliberal ideology of austerity and bailing out bankers and bondholders.