Results 23,281-23,300 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Third Level Fees (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the doubling of registration fees for non-EEA nationals to €300; the basis for giving five days' notice to non-EEA nationals of the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54502/12]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategy Statements (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the way he is monitoring progress on his Department's strategic priorities as set out in his Department's strategy statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55522/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health with regards to the Health Service Executive's Fourth Annual Report of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the announcement in it that on 4 September 2012, the HSE Management Team approved the new access protocols for 16 and 17 year olds to mental health services, if he will provide details of these new access protocols; if he will confirm if the HSE...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health with regards to the Health Service Executive's Fourth Annual Report of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the announcement in it that on 4 September 2012, the HSE Management Team approved the new access protocols for 16 and 17 year olds to mental health services, if he will provide details of these new access protocols; if he will confirm if the HSE...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health with regards to the Health Service Executive's Fourth Annual Report of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and the announcement in it that on 4 September 2012, the HSE Management Team approved the new access protocols for 16 and 17 year olds to mental health services, if he will provide details of these new access protocols; if he will confirm if the HSE...
- Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very depressing that we are debating this issue 20 years after the terrible circumstances of the X case and have done nothing in the interim. Successive governments have not had the courage to deal with the issue after the tragic circumstances following the rape of a young teenager. The State attempted to prevent her from travelling abroad to have an abortion. The Supreme Court ruled...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman Special Reports: Discussion with Ombudsman (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure I quite agree with that, although I would like some guidance from the Ombudsman on it. The report is about a culture that appears to be present in the Department of Health over many years. A series of things have happened which indicate a particular culture in the Department of Health. I would not agree with what Senator Ó Clochartaigh said about other Departments. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman Special Reports: Discussion with Ombudsman (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am absolutely gobsmacked. What Ms O'Reilly has described is shocking in the extreme. I was familiar with the scandal of medical card holders effectively being robbed by the State and the State then trying to retrospectively legalise it. It is shocking and outrageous but, oddly, not surprising that this is the culture in Departments. It gives new meaning to the expression that there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I feel like I am in a time warp. I agree with Senator Ó Clochartaigh. It is right and proper that the committee should inform people of the different avenues available to them. In this case they are the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, given its deliberations on the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill and how these may...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an important issue. As I mentioned in private session, either I know this man or know others like him. It is a rather ridiculous anomaly whereby someone who has completed one year in third level education seeks to continue the course but because he is not unemployed for long enough, he is forced back into unemployment and cannot then continue his education in UCD. He is being...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You could have taxed the rich.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not. We proposed to reverse the cuts.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We costed the reversal.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in ours.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having a roof over one's head is not an indication of one's ability to pay €300, €400 or €500.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us not be facile about this.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All that being said, these measures are broadly progressive.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the wrong kind of activity.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: None of us wants to drag out this process at this stage. Broadly speaking, these measures are reasonable.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister might be surprised to hear that I have said that now on three occasions tonight.