Results 21,121-21,140 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a belief among people who are generally better off and have never found it necessary to depend on the social welfare system that those who depend on that system are somehow being dishonest and lazy and leeching off the system. In their minds, what we need to do is toughen up such people by giving them a hard time and they will then return to work. While this view is not stated...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The cut to mortgage interest supplement means hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs as a result of crisis caused by others will have the misery of losing their jobs compounded by the great likelihood of losing their homes. This is a case of making a bad situation worse and of rubbing salt into the wound. It is appalling. There is an implicit acknowledgement in this...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to ask the Ceann Comhairle a brief question. I am trying to understand what is happening here.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to fight with the Ceann Comhairle.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do want to speak.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Ceann Comhairle calling Members in the order in which they submitted amendments?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to know if everyone who has submitted an amendment will have an opportunity to speak.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We move on through the depressing list of targets set in this really ruthless Bill. We have already dealt with women who are having children, people who are burying their dead and those who are injured or become sick at work. Now we are moving on to young people. The Minister laughably tries to justify this measure with references to labour activation. I am sure she is aware that the real...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, we were told earlier that the order in which speakers were called was according to the list. The Ceann Comhairle told us that, as did Deputy Olivia Mitchell.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With all due respect, we were told the exact opposite of that just before the last vote.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We were told that by the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Olivia Mitchell.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did the Ceann Comhairle tell us the opposite earlier?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle told us it was going according to the list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle was calling them according to the list.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am entitled to be called as I have tabled an amendment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle is making the rules up as he goes along.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is my microphone switched on?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will wait for the Minister to switch off her mobile telephone.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not mine either.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not my telephone.