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- Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot have confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality. His appalling behaviour in dealing with the penalty points scandal, the whistleblowers, the bugging scandal in GSOC and now the taping controversy has been well rehearsed here, so I will not go through it. All of those things have brought the administration of justice and policing in the State into disrepute. That is why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So have I.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair. When I listened to what the witnesses had to say about the use of computers, it struck me that the comedy "Little Britain" was prescient when it depicted a customer being given the response "computer says no" regardless of what he or she asked. That seems more or less to sum up what the banks are at. I have to say that the bleak picture which has been painted by the...
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 240,000 mortgages for buy-to-let properties in the country of which 35% to 40% are now in distress and thousands are facing insolvency. This affects up to 60,000 or 70,000 tenants who may be paying their rent but could face eviction because their landlords are insolvent. Where is the legislation to update the receivership guidelines to give some protection to tenants with families...
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a crisis.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about tenants who have receivers moving in on them?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want fairness. We want the Government to do something.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just putting up my hand to get on the list.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was trying to get in early because the early bird catches the worm.
- Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all leaders.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on calling on Aer Lingus not to proceed with suing SIPTU and a union official doing their duty, for a strike that never went ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15155/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress report on the tendering of orbital bus routes around Dublin and, in particular, the routes that serve the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15154/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (2 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding accommodation in respect of a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15610/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. Is the Government's approach to the issue of human rights in Qatar and the Gulf States generally not a very serious abdication of the sort of ethical foreign policy that a State such as this should have? For a neutral State which is associated with opposing tyrannical regimes, imperial regimes and so on it is not good enough to say that we will hive off the issue of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if the Taoiseach raised it in Qatar.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if the Taoiseach raised it in Qatar. The Egyptian regime has condemned to death 549 people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Middle East Issues (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked if the Taoiseach discussed it in Qatar, which is part of the group of questions. Did he raise the issue of the Egyptian regime's decision to execute 549 people when human rights organisations across the world are pointing out that what it is doing is absolutely outrageous? Will he raise it and will he speak out about this appalling action by the Egyptian authorities?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that last week.