Results 11,581-11,600 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allay the fears of the staff, pupils and parents in a school (details supplied) that has no premises from May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49539/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (28 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase funding for third-level education in view of the impact of increased numbers of students and funding levels not rising to meet this demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49540/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Reluctantly, as one does not want to get into the graphic, intense debate the last contribution from Deputy Nolan invites, I appeal to her to reconsider the amendment and withdraw it. The language she used is the verbal equivalent of the horrible posters we saw displayed outside the Dáil which were designed to induce trauma, fear and shock, which is not the way to conduct a debate on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am surprised that while at the ASEM conference the Taoiseach did not discuss the disaster that is unfolding in Yemen. It begs the question generally about whether European leaders and leaders of other governments around the world are willing to call out the Saudi regime for imposing a brutal blockade on the people of Yemen, which has brought between 11 million and 17 million people to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if the war in Yemen was discussed at the October 2018 ASEM summit. [46873/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Disputes (27 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had discussions with the Minister for Health with regard to the possible upcoming industrial dispute involving nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49105/18]

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to Deputy Darragh O'Brien's criticism that this is reliance on the private sector. We would not be relying on the private sector because we would be taking the land and it would become public sector land.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Great. That is excellent.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil is going to champion this policy.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am running out of time now.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a serious proposal and I would like to hear a response from the Minister on it. It would make a big difference. If the Minister does not believe so, I would like him to explain how we will get these people on these strategic development zones. Lastly, in ten seconds I want to say this on social mix. The Minister's comments are a bit rich. On public sites he wants to sell off...

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why I am saying we should take the land.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not proposing that.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that it does not work in Dún Laoghaire.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, said that this debate should not be personalised and that it should be about policy. For the people who need solutions, it is intensely personal. For the people in homeless accommodation, on housing lists for more than a decade, in mortgage distress, priced out of the market, in overcrowded conditions, living with three or four generations in one house...

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tit-for-tat does not work on this issue.

Social Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a problem. The Minister has a point. The motion we tabled during the summer proposed a minimum of 20% social and affordable housing and a minimum 30% on SDZs. There is a problem if that is all we do. I regret that what Deputy Ó Bróin has proposed is not enough. We need 100,000 social houses on public land, for which we have sites available, over the next five years to...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. The key point is I do not see how the Minister can possibly justify that such relief exists for those paying subscriptions to professional bodies and not allow the same for trade union members. It is a clear case of discrimination. Workers need the protection of trade unions every bit as much as professional bodies may feel the need to exist and that people may...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this amendment, particularly given the very generous tax reliefs we discussed earlier which are to be given to those who are making extraordinary amounts of money out of property, rents and, frankly, profiteering off the back of the current housing and homelessness emergency. It has got to shocking levels. A new record was struck in the docklands area, which is in the Minister's...