Results 24,061-24,080 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not had an opportunity to look at the detail of this complex proposal. I ask the Minister if it will be possible to submit amendments before tomorrow. I suggest the proposal could go a little further, for example, by stating the State recognises and affirms the natural rights of children, including their right to adequate health care, education and housing and the right to live free...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that in Article 42(A).4 we should not only refer to proceedings taken by the State but any proceedings, in other words, that any group of people should have the right to take proceedings to vindicate the rights of children. This should not just be confined to the State. I again ask if amendments can be submitted today to try to improve and upgrade the protections included in this...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the legislation and the forthcoming referendum. I pay tribute to the Minister and anyone else who has been working on the proposed new article to the Constitution and whose efforts have resulted in it being brought forward for discussion. In any set of circumstances priority must be given to discussing the needs and rights of children. We must ensure these needs and rights are...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the legislation and the forthcoming referendum. I pay tribute to the Minister and anyone else who has been working on the proposed new article to the Constitution and whose efforts have resulted in it being brought forward for discussion. In any set of circumstances priority must be given to discussing the needs and rights of children. We must ensure these needs and rights are...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not had an opportunity to look at the detail of this complex proposal. I ask the Minister if it will be possible to submit amendments before tomorrow. I suggest the proposal could go a little further, for example, by stating the State recognises and affirms the natural rights of children, including their right to adequate health care, education and housing and the right to live free...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that in Article 42(A).4 we should not only refer to proceedings taken by the State but any proceedings, in other words, that any group of people should have the right to take proceedings to vindicate the rights of children. This should not just be confined to the State. I again ask if amendments can be submitted today to try to improve and upgrade the protections included in this...
- Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The history of the Magdalene laundries and the tens of thousands of women who were incarcerated, abused, exploited and enslaved in those institutions is a black stain on the history of this State and is part of a landscape of shame that includes the industrial schools, the Bethany Home and widespread abuse of children by the church. The State is ultimately responsible for this. The role of...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that a creche at a centre (details supplied), Dublin, receives the funding it needs in order that the residential treatment centre for women and children will remain open. [40662/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the actual effective corporate tax rate over the past five years, breaking it down year by year and the amount of corporate tax paid over the past five years, broken down year by year. [40932/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the projected effective corporate tax rate for the next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40933/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax break for private medical insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40934/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax break for private medical insurance according to band A, B and C in VHI and equivalent bands in all private medical insurance companies in the state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40935/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give details of the €700 million cuts to the health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41012/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (26 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made of receiving price reductions on generic drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub Committee on Health will next meet. [39030/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Economic Management Council will take place. [40450/12]
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Taoiseach square the Government's commitment to provide home care services to people with its decision to cut more than 1 million hours of home help in a single year?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can he square the respect he has expressed for home helps with the outsourcing of home care services to a multinational company that wants to pay home helps by the minute? Does he think somebody who is paid by the minute - who has to clock in according to the minute and has to leave after exactly 15 or 30 minutes - will give the sort of service that is required to the elderly or disabled...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. All of that is going to change.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is welcome to meet the home helps in the Earl of Kildare Hotel, where they are meeting this evening. Members of the press have been invited as well.