Results 2,441-2,460 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53908/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [53907/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that point, the Israeli massacre in Gaza continues. Hundreds of people are being killed every day. More than 20,000 have been killed, 70% of whom were women and children. The Taoiseach has indicated that there is nothing really that he can do about it except criticise it. I suggest that what he could do is read, if he has not done so, the reports produced before 7...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are one of the richest countries in the world. We are now heading into Christmas with over 13,000 people homeless and 4,000 of those are children. Many of them have been homeless for several years. It is a stain on our society and, frankly, on Government that in such a wealthy society that should be the case. I have a simple question. What hope can the Taoiseach offer those families...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53589/23]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much doubt it. We have had to have significant Supplementary Estimates for health for a good few years. The Minister could probably remind me of that number.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This year, it is just over €1 billion.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a 4% increase on the initial allocation and the Minister said it was more or less the same last year.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we not fooling ourselves that the allocation we are making in the budget is simply inadequate? We must know that in advance.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister is kind of saying is that he is giving the minimum allocation that he can possibly give in order to put downward pressure on what the Minister will spend, knowing quite well that he is going to have to give a supplementary. That is what it sounds like to me. I take the point about the external exceptional circumstances in terms of the presence of a large number of...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Minister about that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I get the point. Can I-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take some of the points the Minister is making. Due to a family member being ill for some time, I have had occasion to go into one of our major hospitals every week, at least once a week, for about the past year. I can tell the Minister that the story I hear every week is the same, namely, understaffing, lack of resources, not enough people on the wards and, in some cases, outright chaos,...
- Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot remember the last time we had a debate on the housing crisis, the rental crisis or the homelessness crisis when the Minister for housing stayed for even half the debate. There is a studied contempt - I have said this before but it is very clear now - for the Opposition and, most importantly, for the public affected by the housing and homelessness crisis, the rental crisis and the...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians are the oppressed, not the oppressor.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is what agreed, sorry?
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we not leave it until tomorrow?
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all housing. It is better to leave it until tomorrow.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not going to get in all the speakers.