Results 12,621-12,640 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to renew the FEMPI legislation at the end of June 2017 in view of the fact that the economy is no longer in a state of emergency; if so, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26270/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to recent revelations as to the way in which public money may have been misspent and the way in which there may have been a lack of governance in this spending in some third level institutions, the new measures he is planning to put in place to ensure proper oversight of expenditure across all public bodies and institutions;...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Government's timeframe to end the pay inequality that teachers endure, in view of the fact that it has now been six years of discrimination (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26319/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Bodies Mergers (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he and the Citizens Information Board are proceeding with the restructuring programme of MABS and the CIS despite the results of the Dáil Éireann motion and before the publication of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26326/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legal Costs (1 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the oversights in place in terms of the expenditure of publicly funded bodies on legal defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26272/17]
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder where Deputy Burton got that idea.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Coppinger and-----
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the clock.
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry. First, I extend my sympathies to the victims of the horrendous fire in London. We do not yet know how many there are but the scenes are shocking and we should extend our support for, and solidarity with, the people there. We do not know why the fire took place, but very serious questions are being asked. I am no expert in this...
- Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It worries me that over recent weeks, the only serious policy issue that emerged was the rather shocking attack by Deputy Varadkar on welfare cheats and a group of people who supposedly do not get up before 7 a.m. That was a new low in politics. It was very divisive and showed a deep level of prejudice against those who suffer inequality and hardship but skated over the fact that, as...
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has increased by 35%. That is a fact.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She is texting us here.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She is texting us here.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is cynical.The Minister broke his promises to her.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has ignored the Irish Medical Organisation.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely not. The Government absolutely let Vera Twomey down consistently. Ask her.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the figure for the gross manufacturing and non-manufacturing trading profits in 2015 or 2016? Amazingly, this does not have it. It is inexplicable.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This, to me, is crucial. It is telling that we do not get that figure. How do we know whether a proper tax rate is being paid unless we are given that figure in their initial paper?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would point out, in terms of the availability of this information, that we find out this information two or three years late. Maybe they could give me the average. They give the increase in trading profits by sector in 2015, all of which, interestingly, are up significantly. There was an incredible increase in profits, of 5% in health and social work, 10% in transportation, and right up...