Results 25,021-25,040 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- National Disability Strategy: Statements (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the very important area of disability. I do not doubt the Minister of State's commitment to deal fairly with people with disabilities and to provide the resources and supports necessary for them. We are all human beings and we all want to see people treated humanely and in a dignified way. However, it is easy to talk about consulting and reviewing...
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why we are giving bribes to foreign executives.
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that why the Government is cutting postgraduate grants?
- Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So why is the Government cutting postgraduate grants?
- Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These cuts to CE schemes must be set against today's announcement in the Finance Bill that the Government will give special tax breaks to extraordinarily highly paid, high flying executives in the financial and corporate sector so that they can pay less tax on their unbelievably high earnings. It is okay to do that because, apparently, it will bring us jobs. On the other hand, the...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's quotations.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am busier than you.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And there will be more.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pay more and get less.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The bankers.
- Order of Business (8 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we come?
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the present Government and its predecessor have sought to justify Ireland's participation in these battle groups, they try to present the case as though Ireland is doing something that complies with the military neutrality for which this State stands and that we are merely involving ourselves in what essentially are benign humanitarian undertakings and that there is nothing to worry about....
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister obviously has not read the documents to which I refer.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister read the European Defence Agency's vision documents?
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister read them?
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the Minister is-----
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is totally wrong there. I am 100% on the side of the people fighting for democracy against the brutal Assad dictatorship and have joined with-----
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister just cannot resist it.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Funnily enough, only the other week we had a meeting at Liberty Hall, with Syrians involved, talking about how we supported the Syrian uprising against the Assad dictatorship.
- International Co-operation: Motion (7 Feb 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The difference is that we are consistent in our support of the democratic and revolutionary forces across the Middle East whereas the Minister is selective. While he claims he supports them in Syria, he is not so quick to support them in Palestine or in Bahrain, and for that matter he is not so quick to say anything about how the generals are crushing the democratic movement in Egypt right now.