Results 11,281-11,300 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a one line question for Mr. Woods about something he said. If I heard him correctly, he said the board knew about the escalation from €61 million and had received a figure at a meeting in September. Is he saying the figure of €450 million was known at a meeting in September but that it did not get to the Minister until November? If it is true, it is shocking. I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Richard Boyd Barrett: We should see that report.
- European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are selling arms to al-Qaeda.
- European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, it is not my birthday tomorrow. It says that it is on Wikipedia, and it slightly worries me that the Minister has been on my Wikipedia page.
- European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will read a couple of excerpts from an article in The Guardianpublished in the last couple of days. Under the headline "Yemen: inquiry finds Saudis diverting arms to factions loyal to their cause" the article reads "An investigation into weapons being used in the war in Yemen has shown numerous examples of arms supplied by the UK and the US, among others, ending up in the hands of militias...
- Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I indicated in the discussion before the motion was referred to the committee, there is something Orwellian about the Government's claim that involving ourselves in an arrangement with NATO does not impact in any way on our neutrality. The phrase "Partnership for Peace-NATO" is Orwellian, too. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is a military alliance dominated by some of the most...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [4066/19]
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach entered into Deputy Enda Kenny territory in Davos.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. We famously remember how the Army was going to be guarding the ATMs such was the severity of the economic crisis. The Taoiseach decided to emulate the rather bizarre comments of the former Taoiseach with the claims that we would have the Army deployed on the Border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. This is despite the fact that the Taoiseach comes into the House and repeats the same...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should hire a nurse as an adviser.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the priorities of his Department in 2019. [5669/19]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine as long as it is taken into account that it could be fitted in today at some stage.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Subject to what the Business Committee says.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is why we need a debate. We need a full debate precisely because of what the nurses are saying that nobody is actually talking about the issues that have led them out on strike. If the Taoiseach wants to resolve it and the House wants to take its responsibility in trying to resolve it, it has to discuss the details of what is going on-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and end the spin and propaganda which the Taoiseach is using to evade his responsibility in the matter.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I contacted the Business Committee.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think that is enough. It is not serious enough in the face of what is going on. The nurses do not want to be out. If the Taoiseach is serious about ending the dispute, we need to thrash out the issues fully.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not engaging.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I am not trying to be disagreeable, but this issue is too serious. There is a need for a full Dáil debate on the issue-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It would be a gross dereliction of its responsibility for the House to fail to discuss the nurses' strike this week. In the pelting rain this morning every nurse to whom I spoke expressed repeatedly his or her disbelief and fury at the failure of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to listen to the reasons nurses were striking and engage with them. I do not believe the House...