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- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Howlin presses this amendment to a vote, as he may well do, then all the time will be gone. I would like a second opportunity to speak before that happens. I ask the Minister to contact the Whip to ask for extra time. Unless the Government comes in, which it should, to give us extra time as the Government Chief Whip promised, then I want to speak again on this amendment.
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is one more hour.
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is also an amendment in our names.
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I raised earlier the issue of the additional time promised by the Government and I saw the Chief Whip hovering around. The Ceann Comhairle himself suggested that we were going to get additional time to deal with our and Deputy McNamara's amendments. If there is a vote called now, the time will have expired.
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister says she is happy to go to 3 p.m.
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe our opposition to the section is the most important proposal today, precisely because the section gives a blank cheque and carte blancheto the Minister, under the emergency amendment of the Health Act that was passed earlier this year, to make regulations which potentially go way beyond the specific scope of this Bill. We would be happy to let this Bill go through because we accept...
- Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will respond to the Minister. This section connects the provisions of this Bill to the extraordinary powers given in previous emergency Covid-19 legislation that we supported. It allows the Minister for Health to prescribe certain events and activities as offences carrying penal provisions. The problem is what has now changed. The enforcement powers that this Bill provides can now be...
- Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should go back to that.
- Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even before Covid-19 hit, higher education in this country was in a sorry state because of the impact imposed by misguided austerity. In February, before Covid-19 arrived, further and higher education were still suffering from the cumulative impact of €550 million in cuts and were operating with less than the funding that existed in 2007. Student to academic ratios in that period...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can the Taoiseach not do it for the Debenhams workers?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is designed to-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I very rarely, if ever, miss a Business Committee meeting but I feel like saying that while the cat is away, the mice will play. Questions on Promised Legislation has disappeared from the normal schedule where we might, for example, ask the Taoiseach when the legislation to implement the Duffy-Cahill report will be brought forward. The Government, having knocked the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The neck is extraordinary. Also, there was an agreement at the Business Committee two meetings ago to have a debate on the economic situation this week, particularly given the Government's plans to axe the pandemic unemployment payments, PUP, the week after that. On multiple grounds, therefore, I object to the Order of Business.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government did not respond to the point on additional time, above and beyond that associated with the manipulation of the speaking order executed at the end of summer term.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the proposed business. There is additional time for the Government, above and beyond that associated with the cynical manipulation already rammed through.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just wondering if they are from the same party-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying we should keep to the order that has been there since the 1920s.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We always had that time. Always.