Results 13,841-13,860 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I wish to pass on my deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the two people who died on the streets, but these deaths, the seven in total who have died in recent weeks, and the 30 or 40 that the Taoiseach said who die every year bring shame on politics, the Government and our society. They are not acceptable but they are not necessary. That is the key point. We have...
- Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should deliver the 250 to 300 Housing First places that the Peter McVerry Trust has asked for. The houses exist and should be identified and made available. Critically, the supports should also be made available. I have a personal friend who I have known since I was 12 years of age who is now homeless again. We had got him onto the Housing First system. He got himself clear of his...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (30 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to correct the anomaly that sees pre-95 public sector pensioners pay the universal social charge on all their income while all other persons on the State pension are exempt from universal social charge on that portion of their income, resulting in the pre-95 pensioners being worse off than other persons that receive the State pension; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Paradise Papers. (30 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he plans to take regarding aggressive tax avoidance by large corporations following the revelations of the Paradise Papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50866/17]
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an absolutely scandalous suggestion. It was not agreed at the Business Committee that there would be a vote on joining the Permanent Structured Cooperation, PESCO, arrangement. This is a move to ram through a vote to move towards joining a European Union army while quadrupling military spending. It would have an effect as significant and damaging to the economy and our society as...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read the brief and the PESCO arrangement. It is absolutely outrageous. This was not agreed to and there has been no public consultation on it, despite it having a fundamental and damaging impact on Ireland's neutrality. It drags us into massively increased military spending.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No it was not proposed.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are trying to end their neutrality as well.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a motion on PESCO. There it is.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Ceann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not the debate. This is about the Taoiseach's proposal.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So that we are clear what is being discussed, it is not just the time allowed for a debate but the fact that the Minister of State with responsibility for Defence is proposing a vote this week. That is what we object to.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not acceptable.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is massive. It is as big as Brexit.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is actually. The Taoiseach does not think so because he supports it.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the umpteenth time, the Taoiseach has again today referred to his commitment to social mix in terms of housing. This has been the justification for the, in effect, privatisation plans for approximately 800 publicly owned sites. Up to 60% of those sites will be, in effect, privatised. On the Part V private development requirement to give over 10% for public housing and social mix, is...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I again refer to the question I asked earlier about housing. It is not acceptable that, on the one hand, we are planning to have a social mix to privatise 800 publicly owned sites, with up to 60% in many of the plans being given over for some form of private housing, whereas the miserable 10% on private sites, supposedly under the guise of a social mix, now turns out to be not even 10%. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's work with the National Economic and Social Council. [51718/17]