Results 12,601-12,620 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do know.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I not know that?
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows a lot about what I do not know.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus, it is getting very personal in here, Acting Chairman.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not personalise it though.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about accounting.
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are celebrating.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you, Ceann Comhairle. Actually, I am going to wait. It is pretty noisy.
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we stall the clock for a minute?
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not hear all of the contributions in the earlier part of the debate. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are certainly supporting this, but I am not sure what other people are saying yet. The Competition (Amendment) Bill aids workers' interests and gives workers who need it the right to organise as trade unionists to improve their pay and conditions. It is great that we can come together...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full cost of his high profile advertising campaign against fraud in social protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25953/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of his interest in those who get up early in the morning, he will give a commitment to ending the pension inequality that has emerged due to cuts to the State pension in previous budgets and is experienced by many who spent many years getting up early in the morning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25954/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Taoisigh and Ministers continue to walk away from the Dáil with massive, gold-plated, guaranteed pensions - it has happened under this and previous Fianna Fáil-led Governments - yet the relentless attack on the pension entitlements of workers continues. The latest attack is in Irish Life, a company that the Government sold and that has remitted €370 million to the parent...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. I want to ask when the social welfare and pensions Bill, the general scheme of which has been published, will come forward and will the Government deal with this assault on the pension entitlements of workers, such as the Irish Life workers, in defined benefit pension schemes who paid in good faith and expect a decent pension?
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for ending pay inequality across the public sector in the context of the public sector pay talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26271/17]
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This week, I went out and joined lesser-paid rank-and-file teachers from the INTO, the ASTI and the TUI who were protesting against the fact that there is a categorically of lesser-paid teachers - people who are employed as teachers post-2011 or 2012. They want to know whether as part of these pay talks, the Minister will commit to the principle of equality. By equality, they mean there is...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The protest the other day was organised by the rank and file. They are ordinary teachers, mostly young, who are in this lesser-paid category. The reduction in the level of inequality the Minister referred to in rather technical language still leaves a situation whereby under the Minister's proposals, teachers, ushers or other public sector workers who came in after 2011 will over the course...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We hear all the usual chestnuts but the Minister does not answer the question, which is whether we are going to have equality. Are we going to have equality for people with the same professional training who will work the same number of years? In fact, they will work more years because of other attacks. Are we going to have a single pay scale for all of them or will we continue with the...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would.