Results 13,481-13,500 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is on a different point.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am indeed. Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. In relation to the speaking arrangements for the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill, it is completely unacceptable that a report on Deputy Gino Kenny's Bill will commence with 15 minutes from the committee Chair, who is recommending that the Bill, which passed Second Stage, goes no further, and then 15 minutes from the Government,...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not about proportional representation. It is about balance in argument concerning a Bill we put forward-----
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on a very important issue that affects tens of thousands of people with serious medical conditions.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful, the group is called Solidarity-People Before Profit.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to say the words. My question relates to the so-called Paradise Papers. The Government was supposed to transpose in June this year the EU anti-money-laundering directive which requires that we have information on the ultimate beneficial ownership of companies and corporate entities. This relates very much to the tax dodging of the Irish rich and Irish corporations revealed in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [44043/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask about the sub-committee on public services and whether it is considering the Government's responsibility for the current rail dispute. Subsidies for transport services, specifically rail services, have decreased dramatically since 2008, from €181 million to €117 million. If the Government was simply to restore the level of subvention to Irish Rail in 2008, Irish...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is for all transport and not just Irish Rail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They should all be subsidised.
- Other Questions: State Pensions (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure pension equality by removing the band changes made to the way in which pensions are calculated and reducing the number of contributions needed to qualify for the State pension from 520 to 260; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46798/17]
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So do I.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before that, I want to say something on the amendments being rule out of order. I do not understand, and I say so genuinely, amendments Nos. 16 and 18 tabled by Deputies Coppinger, Barry and Paul Murphy have been allowed and we will be allowed to debate them, and rightly so. They regard the preparation of reports on swimming pools and large water features in private residences. They...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely do not want to carry on this for no purpose.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I will move it in a second but genuinely, at the first opportunity I had to get up and speak, I objected to the amendments prior to No. 15, which include amendments which I tabled, being ruled out of order. I asked a very specific question.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On amendment No. 7. I asked why it had been ruled out of order when other amendments of exactly the same character and content-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 7. Why was it ruled out of order when other amendments such as Nos. 16 and 18, which deal with precisely the same subjects, are allowed? I just do not understand it. It is inexplicable.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is precisely my question.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not answer the second part of my question, which is, if that amendment is out of order, why is it that other amendments which deal with exactly the same issues have, rightly, not been deemed out of order?