Results 11,061-11,080 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The housing projects are not built directly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The councils were already doing that work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether public procurement processes are fit for purpose in view of the cost overruns at the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10581/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to discuss public procurement and the lessons that we may learn from the debacle of the national children's hospital. Has the debacle of going from an initial estimate of €400 million to an initial bid agreed for just over €600 million, all the way up to €1.7 billion or is it €1.4 billion or €2 billion, given the Minister pause for thought about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask a simple question? Is profit included in the bid process? I presume BAM or anybody else would require a profit margin. Are these things examined? Does the Minister look at how its bid might compare with what the Government would do if the State did this work directly and did not require the taking of a profit and whether that would work out cheaper and better? When bids come...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it interesting that when doing this, it is completely outside the realms of consideration for the Minister to contemplate whether the State should do things directly itself. It would not require a profit motive, potentially would be able to get things cheaply in bulk and would be able to borrow money more cheaply. There are all sorts of possibilities as to why the State, when...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Portuguese Prime Minister. [10516/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with the Portuguese Prime Minister Portugal's model for dealing with illicit drugs? There are major parallels, historically and socially, between Portugal and Ireland in the sense that Portugal developed a big problem with illicit drugs at a similar time to this country in the 1980s. It was an enormous problem, with high rates of HIV, drug related crime, addiction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also attended the dialogue and while dialogue is, of course, important in this current situation of Brexit, it is not much good if some of those involved are not in full possession of the real story. The Taoiseach says he has not read the report on the front page of one of the national newspapers on hundreds of gardaí being deployed to the Border counties. It is astonishing that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the all-island civic dialogue on 15 February 2019. [10515/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the all-island civic dialogue held on 15 February 2019. [10927/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in contingency planning for Brexit; and the number of meetings that have been held on this issue since September 2018. [9306/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By far the most dangerous potential outcome of a no-deal Brexit is the reinstallation of a border between the North and South of this country. Amendments that my colleagues and I put forward to the omnibus Bill have been ruled out of order and the Government does not deal with the possibility of such a border in that Bill. The Taoiseach says publicly that the Government has done nothing to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the programme for Government the Taoiseach said that the provision of affordable housing to those who need it would be a "priority" and that the Government should be tested on its ability to deliver on that promise. Can I suggest that promise is a hoax given the revelation today that, without telling anybody, instructions were given not to give out what is already a very limited scheme...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Standing Order which was used to rule out a number of the proposed amendments states that the basis on which they can be ruled out of order is that they are in conflict with the principle of the Bill. How could an amendment we proposed, about ruling out under any circumstances physical infrastructure between North and South in the form of a border, not be in line with the objectives of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On something as important as this the public needs to know.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review the public procurement process in view of the cost overruns at the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10580/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a passport for a person (details supplied) has not been issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10312/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 308. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will roll out the HPV vaccine programme for boys; if there will be a catch-up programme for all school age boys over the age prescribed by the programme; if priority is given to boys who are homosexual or bisexual; if it is recognised by the HPV school programme that boys who are homosexual or bisexual are in a higher risk group than...