Results 26,361-26,380 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 167: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the position regarding the capital programme submitted to his Department by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17954/11]
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a break down of like for like in terms of levels of dependency cost of nursing home care for an elderly person in a public nursing home and in a private nursing home. [17950/11]
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the discrepancy between the recently publicly quoted cost of public and private nursing home care, the amount of this discrepancy that can be explained by the higher level of dependency in public nursing homes. [17951/11]
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Heather Humphreys said in her maiden speech on the Bill that there was an element of closing the stable door after the horse had bolted. I hope I am not putting words in her mouth, but that is putting it mildly. The Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011 is an utterly pathetic attempt to make it look as if the Government and the European authorities are...
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will get to that point, Deputy Donohoe. Of course, if one wants to understand the thinking behind the IMF-EU diktats, what one needs to look at are the ECB's guiding principles for asset support schemes in the section under governance from 2009. This is what they say and it is worth reading. A guiding principle pertaining to the governance of asset support schemes, which refrain from...
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about regulation of the banks.
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will get to that; the Deputy has already had his chance. The Bill is about making sure the banking system remains in private ownership and is protected from any serious public control, with profit maximisation as a central goal. If we are to deal with the causes of the banking crisis, should we not ask what caused it? Was it not caused by the pursuit of profit maximisation at all costs,...
- Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No.2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to understand the need for a different type of banking system. Deputy Higgins earlier said the way to deal with this is to bring the banking system, which is simply the system to control surplus wealth, the savings produced by ordinary working people, under democratic control. Banks simply operate the investment funds and those who own the funds should decide what they are invested in...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to get my head around the Taoiseach's logic and that of the European leaders.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well, the Taoiseach should answer these questions. How can he justify and explain the economic logic behind cutting special needs assistants, with the disruptive effect that will have on our education system and our young people, who are our economic future, the closure of accident and emergency wards in hospitals around the country, the savaging of the incomes of low-paid workers, despite...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hundreds are being refused.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have dozens of refusals in my constituency.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The families and parents are telling me about these refusals. I do not need to be reading reports.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are being refused now.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The bondholders have plenty of money.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, tax the superwealthy.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Next week, from 6 June until 16 July, the EU-IMF delegation will come to Dublin to implement further austerity, as agreed at the European Council meeting, austerity that the Taoiseach and other European leaders appear to commend as a good thing but which is resulting in tremendous suffering for the people of Greece in so far as it is being implemented there and tremendous suffering for people...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach trying to stop them?
- State Visits (29 Jun 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Martin should not worry.