Results 23,381-23,400 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking that the Taoiseach please stop talking down the clock when it comes to Taoiseach's questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is doing so deliberately. The former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern used to do that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should not be engaging in the same carry-on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach suggested earlier that Ireland was much better off than Greece despite the fact that, unlike Greece, we have no write-down of our debt. In this regard, he cited the disastrous consequences of austerity for Greece. Is it not the case that the reality is the other way around? Europe was forced to give a write-down to Greece, recognising the disastrous consequences of austerity...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the issues that were on the agenda at the European Union Summit in Brussels on 18 and 19 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46204/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of debt relief for Ireland at the European Union Summit in Brussels on 18 and 19 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46205/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issues of jobs and growth at the European Union Summit in Brussels on 18 and 19 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46206/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the issues on which agreement was reached and on the issues where no agreement was reached at the European Union Summit in Brussels on 18 and 19 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46207/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he raised in phone conversation with Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48412/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Hollande; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48413/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach further to his recent phone conversations with Angela Merkel, if he will explain what she meant when she described Ireland as a special case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48414/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach further to his recent meeting with President Hollande, if he will explain what he meant when he described Ireland as a special case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48415/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if any specific proposals were mentioned in relation to Ireland's debt situation in his recent conversations with Angela Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48416/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he intends to raise at the summit on 22 November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51353/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to raise the issue of growth and jobs at the summit on 22 November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51354/12]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: General strikes.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Semi-State Sector Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the number of semi State and State agency executives and employees on an agency by agency basis that have salaries of more than €100,000 per year; if he will provide this information in tabular form, detailing any additional allowances, bonuses and the annual cost to the Exchequer of any pension packages to such employees, in terms of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree on those issues. At least we have aired them. I will move on to the question of public sector jobs. Despite what the Minister has said about the focus on stimulus, etc., his projections for next year are absolutely flat in terms of jobs. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does it not indicate that whatever we are gaining on the swings, we are losing on the roundabouts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (22 Nov 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The medium-term fiscal framework currently provides for no change in unemployment levels next year. Is the Minister predicting that as a result of measures to be introduced in the budget, we will see an overall net increase in employment, or reduction in unemployment, next year? I do not see how that can be the case if we are simultaneously committed to continuing to reduce public sector...