Results 24,661-24,680 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said he discussed the macroeconomic outlook with the troika. The discussions are continuing until Thursday. Is there any recognition on the part of the troika, given the deteriorating economic situation in Europe, the fact that this is the third quarter in a row with economic contraction across Europe and there has been a return of the debt crisis, that its austerity agenda is...
- EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can only comment that as the austerity agenda is rolled out across the rest of Europe, it is becoming increasingly clear that the damage done to the peripheral countries is now spreading to the core and is completely depressing the European economy in all parts. It is disappointing if there is not some discussion about the implications. I specifically asked the Minister whether cuts...
- EU-IMF Programme (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The last round.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a dozen such cases on my desk.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As was mentioned earlier, today outside the Dáil the parents of special needs children who have had domiciliary care allowances cut were protesting as were lone parents who are threatened with a cut in the one parent family payment when their children reach the age of seven and who believe it will drive them out of work. More generally, these protests are part of a growing revolt throughout...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am traumatised by them.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is living in a different planet from the rest of us.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Taoiseach speaking about confidence? People are traumatised, blighted with mass unemployment and are being forced out of the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- and brutal cuts are being imposed on vulnerable sectors of our society. The whole of Europe is rising up against this crazy austerity agenda.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. Is there no recognition on the Taoiseach's part, as there is across Europe, that the austerity agenda is not working? It is crippling growth. The latest EUROSTAT figures indicate that the debt crisis has returned with a vengeance. I specifically asked the Taoiseach if he could clarify for the House and the public what cuts will be necessary from 2015 onwards when we...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Was the Taoiseach there?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish. It is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us the figures.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No figures.
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9633/12]
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of human rights and the lack of democracy in China with the Chinese vice-president when he met him; the commitments if any, that were made by the vice-president on these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/12]
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When it suits the Taoiseach, for rhetorical or political purposes, he talks about his commitment to democracy and his abhorrence of violence. However, when money and business are at stake, his concern for them goes out the window.
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said but one sentence on human rights in China. What did he discuss with the Chinese dictatorship? Did he raise, for example, the fact that 500,000 Chinese people are in detention without trial? Did he raise the fact that the Falun Gong, Christians, Tibetans, Uighurs and anybody dissenting politically against the Chinese regime, including poets and writers who criticise it,...
- Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should withdraw the suggestion that I was involved in anything that could be described as violent activity in Galway. That is not true, as was confirmed by David McCullagh from RTE, who was present on the occasion. It is very dishonest -----