Results 26,121-26,140 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I then asked what areas were subject to Cabinet confidentiality and I was told that was subject to Cabinet confidentiality. This is just bizarre. Can I specifically ask, in the area-----
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I have made my point, but the Taoiseach did not answer the other question I asked.
- Departmental Functions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am getting nowhere on that. A document given to us stated the Taoiseach would answer questions on economic and social affairs. Given the severity of the economic crisis and the concern we all have with economic and social affairs, it is not good enough to have questions in these areas batted off to Ministers who can only be questioned once every four weeks and only then by a kind of...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be two taxes.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked this question about six times. When will the House have an opportunity to discuss the McCarthy report on the sale of State assets?
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is legislation.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Legislation will be brought forward to secure the sale of those State assets.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done so several times.
- Written Answers — Wage-Setting Mechanisms: Wage-Setting Mechanisms (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will give any assurances to low-paid workers covered by the JLC/REA system before the summer recess that their incomes and conditions will not be reduced as a consequence of the legislation that he is preparing in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21133/11]
- Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To repeat the call made, the situation is getting worse all the time. Given the gravity of the circumstances surrounding this Council meeting, the Taoiseach owes it to the Dáil and the public to give us some opportunity to discuss the matter this week, either before or after the summit.
- Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As we break for the summer, I am sure the Taoiseach is aware that for the 450,000 people or so who have no jobs, this will be a difficult summer. In terms of forthcoming legislation dealing with matters such as the strategic investment bank and the McCarthy report on State assets and, more generally, job creation, will the Taoiseach indicate that as soon as we return in the autumn there will...
- Order of Business (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean Members can have that in September?
- Alternative Energy Projects (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Minister of State to consider a fiscally neutral proposal put to me by someone from Bettystown in County Meath, and it relates to the retrofit scheme. The proposal is that we introduce a loan scheme to cover the cost of insulating people's houses.
- Job Creation (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With which question is Question No. 27 being taken?
- Job Creation (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Durkan cannot have three of them.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Minister insulting these people?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers only get two weeks off in the summer.
- EU Summits (19 Jul 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----