Results 21,001-21,020 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----new clothing orders for the Taoiseach, parking-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop interrupting me.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister want me to go through all of them? The list also includes the helipad on the roof of Government Buildings; parking within the quadrangle of Government Buildings; exercise equipment for use by the Taoiseach or any member of his Department; new clothing orders for the Taoiseach - suits, ties shirts, cufflinks, etc.; refurbishment-extension-purchase of any office, room,...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a consistent theme running through the list; the Minster knows damn well there is.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on Minister.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That was probably a request made by a journalist looking for a particular story about the costs incurred by the Taoiseach and perhaps Ministers - I acknowledge that point - which people might perceive to be superfluous or because there was controversy around such expenditure because it might have been perceived to be excessive and indulgent against the background of an economic crisis....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the period of office of the Government.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It relates to the period from when the Government came to power to the date of the question.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mostly by the Taoiseach.
- Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I was saying to the Minister for Health earlier, the major attribute of this Government seems to be to try to manipulate the debate and cover up the realities of its savage betrayal of election promises and the brutal assault it is waging against ordinary citizens and public services. Nowhere is this more evident than in the health service. The promise was that the Minister for Health,...
- Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, that is what it is beginning to look like: a horror movie. If it was not so serious, one could make a film out of it and call it "The Return of the Beast, 666", produced by the troika, directed by Deputy Michael Noonan and staring, in the lead role as the beast, the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, bringing death and pestilence to a hospital near you. Of course, it is...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Freedom means free.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the semi-States.
- Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been on tenterhooks waiting to see whether it would be before or after lunch. I strongly oppose this Bill which is a disgraceful attack on the elderly and the chronically sick. It represents a monstrous betrayal on the part of this Government of the promises that were made prior to the election about dealing with the crisis in our public health service and dealing with the two-tier...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Minister that time is short and he is giving an interesting account but I am asking him a specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister be at the Eurogroup meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With all due respect, Chairman-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With all due respect I do not give a hoot about their protocols if they are trying to close off discussions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is telling us that issues of vital interest to this country cannot be raised at a two-day series of meetings on what is happening in the European economy. I do not accept that. It seems we have to be such good boys and girls that we cannot breach protocol and we cannot raise issues of vital interest to us. I specifically asked the Minister why, in the context-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (13 Nov 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of a discussion on banking union can he not raise the issue of retrospective recapitalisation of Irish banks, another word for a bit of debt write-down. Why can he not do so?