Results 9,781-9,800 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he is considering new divisions in his Department. [43258/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise in advance for the fact that I will have to leave before I can hear the Taoiseach's answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. I just wanted to say that I am not being rude but must leave to take a call. I propose that the Taoiseach take the issue of disability under his Department's remit. Disability advocacy groups and service users have been calling for this for some time. The UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability, UNCRPD, has been ratified, although the Government notably opted out...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if climate change is covered by Cabinet committees he attends. [45218/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not think he should apologise for trivialising the issue of the climate emergency by making those comments? It really gives succour to climate deniers like Donald Trump to make glib trivialising comments of that sort. It would be helpful if the Taoiseach said they were comments he regretted. I question the Taoiseach's more general bona fides on this given the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The housing crisis has reached absolutely dire proportions and, to be frank, in my part of Dublin it is getting worse every day. There are many reasons for this but one is the failure to put in place the necessary infrastructure in order to develop public lands for social and affordable housing. Our representatives on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have discovered something that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure last met. [45217/19]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For what? What is the point?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point of this charade if rules cast by a majority of Members cannot proceed through the Dáil?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The House is being disrupted by the fact that we are not allowed to put a motion-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You might as well.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Ceann Comhairle that I really think this place has brought itself into-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely despicable what is going on.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Things are being done here that have never been done before to scupper the voice of elected representatives and to gag this House from its constitutional right-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which was set out in article-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The rules are being made up as we go along.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are making them up-----