Results 421-440 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy might let, with the time, some of the other people here speak.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If he could; if he would not mind.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is what happens when a Finance Bill is guillotined. We end up with a shambolic Committee Stage where there is no actual scrutiny of the Bill and everyone is forced to try to shoehorn in any points they want to make into the first grouping of amendments. That is what has happened today. People have no choice at this stage. There is very little time left. They want to raise issues and...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done, Deputy Shortall.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you not going to call the movers of the motion first?
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I meant to say amendments - the sponsors of the amendments in the grouping.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our amendment proposes that the Government should get rid of the universal social charge, USC, for anybody who is earning less than €100,000 and replace it with a wealth tax on the very richest in our society. Others have made promises, most notably the Fine Gael-led Government when it introduced the USC, which was a grossly unfair act by a government-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuse me. It was Fianna Fáil. The Deputy is absolutely right.
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What Fine Gael did was say that it would get rid of the USC and then reneged-----
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on the commitment to do so. People Before Profit has been very consistent in its view on the USC since entering this Dáil in 2011, which is that it was a grossly unfair austerity imposition on working people to pay for the crimes of the bankers and property developers who put this country over a cliff in 2008. Workers got it in the neck and were asked to pay for the crimes of...
- Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are the amendments dealing with USC in the next section?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The rest of the country is discussing it but we cannot discuss it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Saturday, there will be tens of thousands out on the streets again calling for this Government to finally impose sanctions, but the truth is the Government is using excuses because it is kowtowing to the US Government to prevent actual sanctions being imposed on Israel for genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The US Attorney General will tell the Government how to write it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The US Attorney General is in on it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government - Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - has blocked the occupied territories Bill since 2018 by putting a money message in its way, allowing Israel impunity for the crimes it has been committing for years against the Palestinians. After a year of genocide, the Government is still finding legal excuses to say it cannot do anything about the occupied territories Bill until after the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----based on consequences-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the warning of consequences-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was shouting at me