Results 13,681-13,700 of 27,076 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that previously but when will that be done?
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed. At the Business Committee I raised the issue of not debating the double taxation agreements with Kazakhstan and Macao.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not know because I have not explained it.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I need to explain why. Kazakhstan is, in effect, a dictatorship. The European Parliament has passed four resolutions outlining major problems with human rights abuses, arrests, imprisonments and the seizure of the property of civil society opponents and political opposition figures.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Parliament-----
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one minute. That is the rule.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one minute in which to explain why we are opposing something.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not ignore human rights abuses and the denial of democracy in Kazakhstan. They are systematic and ongoing and have been reported by human rights bodies across the globe. In doing this deal we are ignoring these issues.
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no response. Can we not even ask for one?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely not true.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Data (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the affordable child care scheme; the current and projected funding; the take-up across the country; the level of subsidies being given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43792/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the takeup of the affordable childcare scheme rolled out in September 2017 by area and cost of subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43797/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the €35 million allocated to her Department for childcare schemes in budget 2017; the schemes it funded; if she will provide a breakdown of funding for the different schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43798/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (17 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 27 September 2017, if further information has been received by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43832/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (12 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 31 January 2017, the position regarding the scheme eight months later; when this scheme will be available to members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43273/17]
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is right there.
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy, with 15 minutes each.
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, the courtesy of listening to the entirety of his speech yesterday. I also did the Taoiseach the courtesy of sitting here and listening to the entirety of his speech here this morning. On neither occasion did the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach do us the courtesy of being in the House to listen to the responses. I would say that this is...
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I shall hear the Minister of State's response and I shall do her the courtesy of listening. I have spoken at length about housing in my last couple of interventions in the budget. I will not repeat the points except to say I really wish the Government would wake up to the new development that is happening. We do not even have hotel accommodation for families who are homeless, never mind...