Results 25,221-25,240 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should have gone himself rather than waffling on at Davos.
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They certainly were not terrified by the Taoiseach's attack on the Irish people.
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about what they told me. Perhaps the Taoiseach should listen to them.
- Cabinet Sub-Committees (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At least we are not blaming the Irish people.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I concur with Deputy Martin. This is an issue on which there are very strong views. I believe there is to be a substantial demonstration next weekend on this issue.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not organised by me but by the people.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am doing the Taoiseach a favour. This could become a very big issue if it is not handled sensitively, or if it is seen in any way that we are dragooning something through which people believe interferes with the freedom of the Internet. Of course there are issues that concern musicians and artists and we must deal with those. However, there is big concern about this measure and I do not...
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a serious issue and we should allow for proper debate-----
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are to pass new laws on this-----
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----they should not be put through as a statutory instrument.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a series of questions and the Taoiseach should try answering them.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called democracy.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has assessed the impact cuts to rent allowance will have on property levels if landlords insist on passing this cut on to tenants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4476/12]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she will ensure that the cuts to rent allowance will not be passed on to the tenant; the way she will ensure there will not be a crisis in accommodation for tenants who find themselves having to seek new accommodation because landlords will not accept the changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4475/12]
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the case of workers in the Jane Norman chain who were ejected from their jobs in an almost identical manner to that which occurred in the La Senza chain, when the company was put into administration in June 2011, and where to date the workers have still not been paid approximately a...
- Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she raised the issue of growing poverty and inequality resulting from austerity with her European counterparts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39783/11]
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To swap metaphors with the previous speaker, the Government side in this debate reminds me of the captain of the Italian ship that sank recently because he was so busy trying to impress his friends onshore that he could not face the fact of a massive gaping hole in the side of his ship or that it was going down. The reality is that the Government is keeping the country on an unsustainable...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what the Government is doing.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the treatment of workers in Vita Cortex, La Senza and Lagan Brick and other similar cases such as the Jane Norman chain in mid 2011, in which workers are denied the rights and entitlements by employers, the measures and legislation he proposes to put in place to ensure that such occurrences are not...
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am taking Deputy Halligan's question.