Results 26,641-26,660 of 26,986 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

State Visits (10 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the issues he plans to discuss with President Obama during his visit to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/11]

Oireachtas Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I heard we would be celebrating our EU membership with a special sitting of the Dáil, I thought it was a sick joke. It just beggars belief that when this country is being crucified by an EU-IMF deal, the Government thinks we should celebrate our membership of the EU. It is beyond pathetic - the sick joke of a bankrupt Government. The EU-IMF programme is a plan to inflict untold misery...

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on an industrial dispute at a location (details supplied) now into its second year, in which workers of up to 38 years service have been sacked and left without holiday pay, sick pay and redundancy pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9935/11]

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation his plans to ensure the protection of workers' rights, including premium pay for Sundays and anti-social hours, in view of the forthcoming review on Joint Labour Commissions and Registered Employment Agreements. [10156/11]

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The joint labour committees and the registered employment agreements are the main mechanism through which the lowest paid workers are protected. This affects 400,000 of the lowest paid workers in the State, who have already been hammered by child benefit cuts and the universal social charge. They are really struggling. Can the Minister give reassurance to those workers, who are deeply...

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, can another Member come in on Priority Questions?

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies. I am slightly worried by the Minister's answer. In so far as job losses are taking place in these areas, I and many reasonable people would argue it is the lack of demand in the economy that results in people's incomes being slashed. What I and the workers in this sector are looking for is an assurance that while there may be anomalies, and the unions and so on involved...

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to allow us have a proper debate?

Employment Rights (5 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Levelling up or down?

Written Answers — Colleges Recognition: Colleges Recognition (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procurement procedures followed in the granting of ministerial approval to a college (details supplied) to operate in the field of primary teacher education; the reason this college has no cap on teacher training places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9892/11]

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The essential and big question everybody in the country is asking is, "Where is the bailout for the people?" There is a bailout for the bankers to the tune of over €100 billion but ordinary people who sought to do nothing more than put a roof over their heads – an entirely legitimate aspiration – are threatened with losing their homes and battered with unsustainable interest payments...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Government gave us the time we would do it.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a cheap political point but given that we are discussing the issue that will dictate and dominate our economic future for many years into the future I am amazed that so few Members have bothered to attend this debate. The emphasis put by the Government parties in advance of the election was on how this was such a bad deal for Ireland and a bad deal for Europe, that it had to...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis was caused by bankers and the deficit problem was caused by the fact that we lowered taxes on the rich in this country to unsustainable levels. The answer, therefore, is to make the bankers pay for the crisis they caused and to put taxes on the wealthy rather than the vulnerable and working people in this country. It can be done if there was a will to do it but there is no will...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not these Independents.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a completely different group.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was nothing to do with us. We were calling for nationalisation.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have such a debate.