Results 13,861-13,880 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NESC has done considerable work on housing in recent years. I can suggest one area where we need to do considerable work. The Government needs to do something on the issue of affordability and NESC could possibly be a vehicle. We still do not have any real plan for affordable housing. We have a market where prices are spiralling out of all control and where much of the funding the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The requirement is poorly defined.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy - will next meet. [51719/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach complained about constraints in terms of capacity to deliver housing but the ICTU report confirms something that most of us know anecdotally. Significant numbers of people who formally worked in construction will not work in construction because of rampant bogus self-employment and the poor conditions and pay of employment for construction workers. If the Taoiseach wants to...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish to support Deputy Healy's amendment. The FEMPI legislation should be completely repealed. It has no justification whatsoever and it never did, by the way. It was based, in the first instance, on an enormous lie that was used to justify the austerity assault on working people after the collapse in 2008. The lie was that the reason we had a crash was that we had excessive public...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we proposed in the amendments ruled out of order, this section should include a provision to end the pay inequality imposed on new entrants to the Civil Service after 2011 or 2012. We will move on presently to a more detailed discussion of the pension levy and the punishment provisions of the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation. However, the pay...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very moderate it was too.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have already spoken about the issue of pay inequality on the amendment that was ruled out of order. I am aware that quite a few teachers and other public servants are watching this debate and it is worth explaining to them because they probably do not know that our amendments and those of others - Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Solidarity-People Before Profit, Deputies Clare Daly, Mick...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said I could not move the amendment.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was making a contribution at the time. Obviously, I did not say I could not make a contribution.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a matter of record that we cannot move the amendments to provide for pay equality. That is what we said.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first thing that young teachers, nurses and other public servants should take from the Minister's response is that they should continue to campaign on this issue because their campaign is working. It is clearly the pressure of the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO, in coming together to oppose the latest deal which does not fully restore pay or deal with pay equality, that has forced the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which he is satisfied that the Charleton tribunal will receive all the documents, memos, emails, letters and other communications relevant to its work (details supplied) in view of recent revelations that his Department withheld certain documents from the tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he is taking to deal with issues in his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the high rates of interest on variable mortgages in comparison with the rest of Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Eligibility (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are restrictions on a person naturalised through marriage who subsequently divorces and naturalises another person through a second marriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend the remit of services available for guilty prisoners on release to be made available to innocent persons on release in view of the fact that miscarriage of justice cases are not allowed access to post-prison services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51784/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Miscarriages of Justice (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish an independent criminal cases review commission similar to that in operation in Norway to examine cases in which prisoners have been exonerated; if he will acknowledge wrongful conviction mistakes and publicly declare innocence on the quashing of a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 328. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to increase the number of stroke units; if so, the amount by which funding will be increased; the locations in which funding will be made available in the HSE service plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51543/17]