Results 8,961-8,980 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You want to have your cake and eat it.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Silence is complicity in this.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not sit down, with all due respect to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government wants to sabotage democracy.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am letting rip.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is unparliamentary.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: May I raise a point of order?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Business Committee sets the schedule. This all-party committee has put a proposal to us. When this proposal for a debate was raised at the committee's meeting, there was not a word of dissent from the Government.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a sabotage of the Business Committee, which is supposed to organise the business of this House on the basis of co-operation between parties. It is an abuse of the Government's majority. Sickeningly, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party are lining up to drive a coach and horses through the process of democratic reform. The Business Committee and the Committee on Standing...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a move to gag the Opposition in the most shameful way, as if the Government had not done enough sabotage over the last week. It sabotaged the self-employed, the taxi drivers-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has attacked-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished making my point of order. This is absolutely shameful behaviour on the part of the Government. I absolutely cannot believe that the Green Party is a party to this. They sabotaged democracy. This is-----
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to our amendments, Nos. 10 and 33. The argument we are making in both amendments, very simply, is that we are still in a public health emergency. The ban was brought in to protect people against being evicted and made homeless in the context of an emergency that threatens people's health. Unless something has changed that we have missed, we are still in that public health...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are supposed to call in order, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you not taking us in the order of the amendments?
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the way it is normally done, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not know why you are departing from the normal procedure. I could not understand that.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am concerned with procedure. We will discover that later tonight when there will be a big row about procedure and the move by some to gag the smaller parties.
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just seeing as we were discussing procedure. This is one law for the poor and one law for the rich. There are a number of examples, which I have cited regularly, of vulture funds using loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Act which were designed or left - I do not know - by the previous Government, and the Government before that, to facilitate vulture funds and unscrupulous...
- Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a better view from here to prevent skullduggery. I also want to respond to the Minister because, to be honest, I do not know what he is talking about when he suggests that this is a comprehensive Bill to protect tenants. This Bill dismantles the protections that were put in place to deal with the emergency and maintains protections for only a small cohort of tenants who have fallen...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a call for Ireland will be committed to for the education sector to employ more teachers to permanently reduce the pupil-teacher ratio and source new buildings in order that students can return to school safely in September 2020; if the two-tier pay for teachers will be abolished to ensure that all teachers are treated fairly and are paid on...