Results 13,901-13,920 of 26,901 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is the other way around.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, I thought there was no deadline in putting in Report Stage amendments.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not say we cannot put in amendments on Report Stage.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Deputy can submit them now.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am enjoying the debate anyway.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at all. I was just saying that I was enjoying the debate.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: His amendment is the first in the grouping.
- Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite all the great efforts taken by political parties and Governments to manipulate the narrative around politics in this country in order to convince the public that they are doing this, that or the other and the parliamentary games that have been regularly played on a large scale in recent weeks - such as ramming legislation through at a rate of knots and all those games in which the big...
- Other Questions: National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the commitments in the programme for Government on improving the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not talking about Michael D.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Michael D. was never part of the political establishment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was on the left wing of the Labour Party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was an honourable exception.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because there is not too much detail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The political establishment, which I will define for Deputy Micheál Martin, comprises the people who have dominated this State since its inception-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider establishing a Cabinet committee on the arts. [31466/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I was saying, the political establishment, which I will define for Deputy Martin as being the people who have dominated the State for the past 75 years, like a narrative in which they say they are the people in favour of enterprise and jobs whereas the left just wants to give out about things.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth is that we just want different priorities in developing jobs and enterprise. One of those, which we have talked about incessantly, and at the time of the previous budget, People Before Profit was the only group of people to include it in their budget submission, is the need to increase the arts budget significantly and to recognise the enormous, cultural, economic and social...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been some rhetorical acknowledgement of that issue by the Government and Fianna Fáil, largely because of the work of the National Campaign for the Arts and others. In reality, however, the arts budget for 2017 was reduced by 16% on what it was in 2016 and we are at the bottom of the league table when it comes to expenditure on arts as a proportion of gross domestic product,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We snuffed out the Blueshirts for a while.