Results 12,621-12,640 of 26,902 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Communications (15 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that a landline telephone number is supplied along with 1850 or 1890 telephone numbers by his Department including all Revenue departments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7899/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Communications (15 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that a landline telephone number is supplied along with 1850 or 1890 telephone numbers by all Departments including all State and semi-State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8018/18]
- Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Sinn Féin on introducing the Bill. I fully agree with the proposed measure to establish that it would be a criminal offence for banks to lie or give misleading information to the Central Bank of Ireland and to impose sanctions of up to €250,000 in fines and-or five year prison sentences. This is welcome legislation because people are fed up to the back teeth of there...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should continue his response.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the programme for Government. [5978/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government said that the Government approach to governing would be crucially tested on the issue of housing and how it dealt with the housing crisis. I understand the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, was in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on Monday and was a little put out because I was outside protesting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So I believe, but I did not apologise on behalf of the Minister. I was there with people who come to my clinic and who represent the human evidence of the failure of the Government's policies. I will offer some examples of some of the people who were there. Two young women who are pregnant were there. They are homeless. They are being told by the council that they have to go to Brú...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What can we expect in terms of the provision of housing under the capital plan? Today, we have had further evidence of the failure of the Government's policy to deal with spiralling house prices. An increase of 12.7% has just been reported. This is on top of the news yesterday of an 81% increase in rent since 2010. It seems as if the Government's solution to all this is to say that, at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's role in the forthcoming national development plan. [6962/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the input his Department has had to the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7473/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Development Plan (14 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the national development plan contains targets and projects for retrofitting homes; if his Department had an input into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7474/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was asked about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are still 36 seconds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Washington. The Taoiseach was asked about Washington. What does he have to say?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every week that goes by, the US President, Donald Trump, provides us with further evidence of the threat he represents to the world, peace, the environment and whole swathes of the world's population. I assume the Taoiseach will meet Donald Trump on St. Patrick's Day in the White House. I would prefer if he did not and made it clear why he should not but I wonder whether he has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The guy is mad and has mad people in his Government-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the madness is threatening peace in the Middle East and the global environment. How is the Taoiseach going to make a statement against these sort of crazy policies?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his planned meetings with foreign Heads of State over the next two months. [5692/18]