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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what was agreed to.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not hold up the business of the House for much longer, but I seek clarification.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill was passed in February 2018-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What was requested of the Government was that it allow a motion to be tabled in the Dáil to enable it, not a committee made up of Senators, to decide what should happen to the Bill. Senators do not have the right to block a Bill passed by the Dáil. We are asking for Government time, even without debate, for a motion to allow for a debate on the Bill.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Well then I will keep talking until it is addressed.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I will not.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is an abuse of Standing Orders and Dáil procedures.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is right that I am normally orderly-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but when the Government is abusing the democratic processes of the Dáil and sabotaging-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but it cannot get away-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government could resolve it fairly easily.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In a cynical and, frankly, despicable effort to protect the interests of the fossil fuel industry and oil exploration companies, Fine Gael and its Independent Alliance colleagues are abandoning their promise in the programme for Government to take "radical and ambitious action to deal with climate change" in which regard they said they would be world leaders. Simultaneously, they are...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. When Deputy Michael Lowry, Senator Michael McDowell, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, Deputy Seán Canney and Senator Joe O'Reilly are used to block a Bill and hold it hostage - many are Senators - notwithstanding the fact that it was passed by this House, to prevent it from progressing further, it is an abuse of the democratic process.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We learned yesterday-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I will not. We learned yesterday-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that this was being done for political reasons because the Taoiseach and the Government do not agree with the content of the Bill.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are using and abusing procedure to hold the Bill hostage.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an absolute disgrace and the Government must be called out for it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They think they can get away with these shenanigans.