Results 26,561-26,580 of 26,988 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just stating that for the record, given the earlier unjustified comment. What is the reason senior figures both in the Garda and from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Defence are attending this conference with former directors of the CIA, former directors of military intelligence in the United States army and former senior figures from the FBI? Bizarrely, the...
- Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course some of the issues the Minister mentioned are legitimate matters on which we must co-operate with other countries. However, there is a little more than that to the CIA. Does it not concern the Minister that the CIA is involved in illegal kidnapping, so-called renditions and has been involved in all sorts of manipulations in places such as the Middle East? It might well be...
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it extraordinary that a Government that prides itself on fiscal rectitude and the need for it does not have an estimate for the security and associated costs for the visits of the Queen and President Obama. Should we take it from the Minister's response that the Government has essentially given a blank cheque to the Garda and any other organs of the State involved in facilitating this...
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last Saturday I was demonstrating against the Syrian Government.
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have done that too.
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely; the Minister is dead right.
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister answer the question I asked him?
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all oppose that. Can the Minister answer the question?
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with that.
- Garda Operations (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I abhor that kind of conduct. The Minister has not answered the question.
- Order of Business (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In answer to Deputy Higgins's question yesterday on the taxi industry, the Taoiseach indicated there would be a review of that industry. Does he envisage legislation flowing from this to improve regulation of the industry? Will he ask the Minister to consider checking the vehicles that were checked by the staff who have been suspended?
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify his response to Deputy Micheál Martin? It is still not clear to me where the buck stops on the State assets we will have to sell at the behest of the European Union and the IMF as part of their package. Who will make the final decision? Deputy Brendan Howlin and other Ministers may have an input, make recommendations and examine the McCarthy report. Surely,...
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief.
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For example, the report suggests that harbours and ports are not strategic assets in an island nation.
- State Assets (18 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is crazy.
- Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 72: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons and families that will be deemed ineligible for social housing under the new Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act that were previously deemed eligible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11590/11]
- Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 409: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders signed on each particular day that such orders were signed in the past six months. [11845/11]
- Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of mental capacity legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7919/11]
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State's approach to this issue. It is a positive day and we are hearing many positive comments. I must pinch myself.
- Social and Affordable Housing (17 May 2011)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State's suggestion to bring both functions together in a one-stop-shop but the discretion community welfare officers have in sanctioning rent allowance is worrying. The vast majority of CWOs are good, decent people but problem cases arise because they have discretion rather than being subject to clear guidelines about people's eligibility. This matter needs to be...