Results 26,041-26,060 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about what is happening in Europe.

Public Investment Projects (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is ideology.

Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Print a few punts up in Sandyford.

Public Service Pay (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome Deputy Keating's question. He is pointing to an important issue - the obscene salaries of many people in the top echelons of the civil and public service, who are paid with public money. I do not know if he agrees with me when I suggest his proposal could be extended to cover the obscene salaries at the top of the corporate and private sectors. The Minister and the Government...

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an outrage that a 65 year old woman, Teresa Treacy, has been languishing in jail for several weeks because of the ESB's bullying and determination to run overhead power transmission lines through a farm and forest land that she has nurtured and given much of her life to developing. All she is asking, as she has made clear to the ESB for several years, is that the lines be placed...

EU-IMF Programme (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance his negotiating position with the EU-IMF Troika in relation to the sale of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27641/11]

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. The eurozone economy is plunging yet further into crisis. The more certain countries impose their stupid policies of austerity and bank bailouts the worse it gets. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, lives in a land of delusion and thinks the Irish economy can thrive when the rest of the European economy is going down the toilet. Faced with this unprecedented crisis all we get...

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are in New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some six hours will be devoted to the Second Stage debate on the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011 this week and the Taoiseach is only allocating 90 minutes for the debate on the crisis in Europe.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be seeing a few more of those in the coming months.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the figure €2 billion or €5 billion?

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On promised legislation and promised debates,-----

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----I must correct the Taoiseach because before the summer break he promised we would have a chance to debate the sale of State assets. I ask him to keep that promise.

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of debate is it if we do not get a chance to debate in this House the merits or demerits of selling off the family silver-----

Order of Business. (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----before the decision is made? Can we not have a democratic debate before a decision? We want to know if Bertie Ahern will end up owning the forests in this country.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the current situation in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27367/11]

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the EU-IMF delegation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19808/11]

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report of his meetings with the EU/IMF delegation during their recent visit here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21413/11]

Written Answers — EU-IMF Programme: EU-IMF Programme (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance if the implementation of the programme for Government may be affected by the EU-IMF deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19810/11]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has read the National Economic and Social Council paper, "Ireland's Economic Recovery - An Analysis and Exploration"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24753/11]