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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Other Members have done so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure they were for good reason.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many new staff will be employed in Irish Water as against people on secondment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The context for this hearing is the sense of outrage people who have been hit with property taxes and are soon to be hit with water charges feel when they hear money they would expect to go to fix leaking water pipes, provide reservoirs and improve water quality, may be going to line the pockets of highly-paid consultants and executives in Irish Water. Furthermore, our Government was trying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the question. How much water has been conserved as a result of that expenditure? It all relates to billing and charges. If we did not have water charges, and consequently did not have the requirement to install meters to monitor how much water people are using, how much of this expenditure would have been necessary? Is the vast majority of this expenditure about billing and...
- Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's intention to charge people for the water they need to drink and wash is utterly despicable. That is why it has chosen to take the equally despicable decision to ram the Bill through the House a few days before Christmas. It is cynical in the extreme. The Government is perpetrating a heist and trying to cover up the robbery of one of the most precious and vital resources...
- Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In a question to him earlier this year in which I asked about the additional payment of approximately €20,000 to the CEO of DLHC, the Minister said the explanation given to him was as follows:The additional payment of €19,877 relates to payment in lieu of untaken holidays or untaken leave. My Department wrote to the chairperson, whose term has ended, stating that we did not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is accepted that the €20,000 approximately should not have been paid. Will it be repaid? The Central Remedial Clinic scandal of top-up payments which were in breach of the cap and which rightly caused uproar is under investigation by the HSE because it is a body that is within the remit of the State. Should this not apply to all semi-State companies, including a small company...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the recent top-up scandals if he intends to investigate significant unexplained extra payments and expenses, due to be returned, to executives and board members in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54608/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked the Minister questions on the goings-on in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company on numerous occasions since I entered the Dáil and I have not really got the answers. I have asked questions about the unexplained €19,877 paid to the CEO of the company by himself explained as money in lieu of holidays. I have asked questions about whether expenses wrongly claimed by a...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the planned integration of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company into Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will take place; the way this will be structured; and if it will involve a review of management practices. [54401/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Staff (19 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on any and all pension schemes available to employees of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company; they way they are funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54402/13]
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not heckle while the Minister of State is speaking.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should demand more. The Taoiseach might not want to go as far as I or others would go, but to let this drift on as another abandoned promise is not acceptable. That abandoned promise is now being replaced with the strategy for growth, as Deputy Collins pointed out. Let me acquaint the Taoiseach with a conundrum that he must understand.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, but this is what is replacing the necessary debt write-down.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two lines in it and then we will move on.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask that the Taoiseach let me finish; he will have a chance to respond. There are two lines in the document about that, but the approach is to let us forget about that and talk about growth.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all want growth, but there is a conundrum: in order to make that debt sustainable we must have growth, but in order to have growth we have to get a break on the debt.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One cannot have growth without a break on the debt.