Results 12,981-13,000 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Michael D. was never part of the political establishment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was on the left wing of the Labour Party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was an honourable exception.
- Other Questions: National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the commitments in the programme for Government on improving the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
- Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite all the great efforts taken by political parties and Governments to manipulate the narrative around politics in this country in order to convince the public that they are doing this, that or the other and the parliamentary games that have been regularly played on a large scale in recent weeks - such as ramming legislation through at a rate of knots and all those games in which the big...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am enjoying the debate anyway.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at all. I was just saying that I was enjoying the debate.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: His amendment is the first in the grouping.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is the other way around.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, I thought there was no deadline in putting in Report Stage amendments.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not say we cannot put in amendments on Report Stage.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Deputy can submit them now.
- Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a Cabinet Committee on Housing. [32518/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a Cabinet Committee on Education. [32519/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to ratify the UNCRPD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27657/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the redress awarded to a person from the Residential Institutions Redress Board should be included in a means assessment for a supplementary welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33400/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Programme for Government Implementation (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitments in the programme for Government on improving the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have much to add. I agree with everything the IHREC representatives said. I thank them for coming in and for their continuing work and I also welcome the IHREC's statement on family hubs. They are right in saying that we cannot allow them to become some sort of permanent solution to the housing emergency, particularly following the report that we have the highest proportion of...