Results 21,921-21,940 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The Acting Chairman just asked the Minister to move it and asked the House to agree and I am saying I do not agree.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disgraceful attempt to intimidate public sector workers and bully them into accepting the Minister's pay cuts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It fulfils all the criteria to prove that we are a tax haven.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The facts speak for themselves.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Zero tax is paid by Apple.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not according to the EU.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is going to blow up in our face.
- Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not believe it time to end the cover-up in which he and his spin doctors are engaged over the growing scandal of corporation tax avoidance by multinationals? Is it not a fact that he is trying to throw mud in the eyes of the public, Deputies and his European partners in a way that will do immense damage to the international reputation about which, as he has told us many...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me, I am next.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if corporate tax was discussed at the EU council meeting on 22 May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25466/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if the tax regime for oil and gas here was discussed during the talks on energy efficiency at the EU Council meeting on 22 May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25467/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Wolfgang Schäuble; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25468/13]
- Other Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The troika is not an excuse for this kind of thing. The troika documents are littered with talk of structural reform and I simply cannot discern how either the Minister of State or the troika could possibly justify these cuts, which will have an adverse impact on the ability of the State to educate and retrain people, particularly those in the further education sector who are among those...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will release the statement sent to him by the CDVEC on the effect the change in the pupil teacher ratio will have on colleges in the FE sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25472/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the impact that the proposed new enrolment legislation might have on enrolment policies in gaelscoileanna. [25555/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the restructuring of the NCCA; and the impact that this will hve on An Chomhairle Gaeltachta agus Gaelscoileanna. [25556/13]
- Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Setting aside the politics of it and focusing on the process, will the Minister not pre-empt and subvert the ballot of workers which is likely to take place in the next week by demanding that amendments for this Bill are submitted by tomorrow at 11 a.m? The workers have not looked at it and neither have Members.
- Other Questions: Private Sector Investment (23 May 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government monitoring public private partnership agreements to ensure rights and conditions for employees are maintained? I ask this question in the context of the official pickets at the Shanganagh wastewater treatment plant yesterday. According to workers, the consortium of a Spanish multinational and an Irish building firm attempted to sack a shop steward who had sought to...