Results 23,761-23,780 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (18 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the overpayment of expenses to a person (details supplied) by the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, if he will confirm the amount the person was overpaid and if this money has been returned to the Harbour Company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45199/12]
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister reverse the cuts then?
- Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I propose to share time with Deputies Thomas Pringle, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and Tom Fleming. The Government has talked continuously about health care reform and its determination to reform the public health service. Some of us believe reform is, for the most part, a euphemism for cuts and austerity. There is no clearer example of where this is the case than what the Government is doing to...
- Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought Fine Gael was the champion of small business, but obviously that is not the case. I have a real concern that those sorts of measures can benefit bigger suppliers of goods and services to the education system and to the education training boards at the expense of small and medium-sized businesses. On the issue of membership of the boards and so on, a number of submissions have...
- Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. We will support the Bill.
- Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Contrary to what the Government sometimes claims when something positive is being done we are willing to support it. The Bill deals with an important area. Given the huge levels of unemployment, the new education and training boards and the new agency, SOLAS, will have an important role to play in trying to upskill and retrain large sections of society who have been forced into unemployment...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Disarmament Initiative (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on sanctions on Iran with regard to UN Chapter VII, article 39, which the Security Council used to impose sanctions under article 41 (details supplied) and in the absence of a threat to the peace determination, his views on the Security Council adopting binding measures; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the funding that has previously been available to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for a traveller dedicated social worker is still available; and if not, the reason it has been cut. [45366/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (17 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is funding to all local authorities for dedicated traveller social workers; and if these positions are statutory. [45367/12]
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the considerable fear and anxiety among many over the prospect of the knife of austerity being stuck further in-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A debate has been promised. When will the Government allow the pre-budgetary debate on the economy that the Opposition asked for?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How will the debate be arranged?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I suggest-----
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about the precise recourse available to a Deputy when another Member of the House has factually misled the House and impugned the character of that Deputy.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach apologise for it?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can provide him with evidence of the factual misleading of the House and the defamation of the character of a Deputy.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not a dirty little trick.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And all the people heading to Shannon Airport.