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- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The doctors of this country said that is ridiculous and that a GP is enough.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, sorry. The Minister, Deputy Harris, made that decision. The doctors of this country do not agree.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is flipping outrageous. The Government is second-guessing the doctors.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Listen to the doctors.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is outrageous.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A GP is enough, according to the doctors of this country.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She has a prescription.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She has a prescription.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does it have to be a consultant?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No I do not. The doctors of this country said it does not have to be a consultant.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing more agroforestry options to encourage farmers to take up forestry and increase tree cover as part of the effort to tackle climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21111/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to put in place a community led afforestation project, co-ordinated by local authorities across the country, to increase tree cover as part of the effort to tackle climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21110/17]
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Today we saw yet another damning piece of evidence, in the form of the daft.iereport, of the abysmal failure of the Government to deal with the spiralling rental, housing and homelessness crisis. The report shows that rents have jumped by a record 13% in the past year - €134 per month on average over the course of a year - guaranteeing to escalate that crisis and lead to more...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A fantasy figure has just appeared, namely, that the State has apparently purchased 40,000 houses. The more accurate truth is that NAMA has flogged off thousands of homes or, worse, as the Balally example indicates, has sat on empty properties in public ownership and when local authorities sought to purchase them, it refused and chose to sell them to a vulture fund instead. The vulture fund...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Taoiseach going to do for these people? He should enforce a compulsory purchase order on those apartments.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could start that process.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The State was sitting on empty properties.
- Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two dimensions to the scenario of Brexit and, more generally, the scenario opening up across Europe that I want to discuss. One is the political side and the narrative surrounding all this, and the second is the more direct economic and practical issues. It is very important in the first instance, particularly on the back of the recent French presidential election, that we...
- Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are serious about avoiding a hard Border and maintaining the common travel area, rather than spoofing, why not tell Mr. Barnier and the European Union that our officials will not physically co-operate with or tolerate any attempt to impose a hard Border? If the EU negotiates a deal which does not ensure that we keep the Border open and maintain the common travel area, we should have a...
- Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes when we propose that we need to significantly increase investment in social housing, the creaking public health system, public transport or other strategic areas of industry and enterprise that are in need of investment such as the arts, forestry, the sustainable energy sector or whatever else, the Government accuses us of fantasy economics because, of course, we do not have the...