Results 121-140 of 943 for long speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...nursing homes because the State had failed to provide them the public nursing home care they were entitled to and the Tánaiste knew this. He knew the charges that were being levied had no legal basis long before courts made decisions on it and he did nothing about it. Vulnerable people had to fight and face hostile legal strategies. It is immoral.

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I also welcome her comments about the need to address the cost-of-living and housing crises that are gripping Europe and significantly impacting this country. I have to say, however, that it is long past time the European institutions acknowledged the role they played, particularly in response to the economic crisis after 2008 and the decision of the Troika to impose swingeing, cruel...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this proposal. People have waited long enough and there should not be uncertainty over getting a prompt decision. As has been said, we had reports and they were relayed to the Minister here recently. When was it we last discussed this? Was it a few weeks ago? We spoke about people having experienced significant delays in getting their personal information, so there is a...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to be ushered out of sight. The child of a fallen woman, an illegitimate child; that is how the mothers and the children were characterised. I was then brought back. I do not even know how long I was in a mother and baby home. It is irrelevant whether you were there for one week, one day, six months or two years because the central crime that church and State committed was the primal...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On research and development, we have shortages of skills all over the place, for example, in the health service, construction and teaching, and we can go through a long list of places where we do not have people where we need qualified specialist people. Should we be rethinking our way of looking at this? If research and development tax reliefs are currently largely benefiting a small...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...% have more than 64% of all the wealth while the poorest 50% have just 1.1% of the wealth. These are grotesque and growing inequalities. Will the Taoiseach now consider something we have called for a long time and that Oxfam is now calling for, which is the introduction of a wealth tax? Oxfam says that a modest tax on those who have wealth in excess of €4.7 million would...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit: Discussion (resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the committee that people are being blacklisted. The individual cases can either be believed or not believed, although they could be checked. It could checked that the people in question have a long record of working in the industry. The testimony they gave to the committee could be checked, as could the fact they have not been back on a film set since they came before the committee in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is based on figures provided in NOAC indicator reports. Does NOAC itself do similar over-time comparisons to assess how we are doing, not just from the beginning to the end of one year but over a longer period? I was quite shocked by the data. Cork County Council's stock was minus 302 when demolitions and sales were taken into account. Again, that is based on NOAC figures. The stock...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That in itself is a very interesting and depressing figure, that more than half of the people in emergency accommodation are long-term homeless. Is that further broken down in terms of the length of time? Does NOAC have further information on the length of time that people are spending in homeless accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., four and five - would be interesting, yet probably depressing, information. In addition, we should consider children. One of the worst aspects of all of this is children in emergency accommodation long term. I do not know whether it is possible to collate those slightly more broken-down figures. In a similar vein, I do not know whether it appropriate to suggest or for NOAC to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...disabled or whatever it might be, as in many cases they are. There could be children, health and welfare issues. That is a worrying thing we need to have figures on. I apologise for going on so long.

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., but the facts tell a different story. The rise in electricity and heating costs can be traced directly back to the deregulation and privatisation of the energy market and the removal of the not-for-profit mandate of the ESB. This happened long before the Ukraine war. From 1994, which is when deregulation started, to 2014, average consumer prices in the EU-15 increased by 40%. That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: SBO Tax Expenditures: Film Relief Section 481 Tax Credit (resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...worked on the films or television series, but they say they do not have an employment relationship with those people, just that those people have an employment relationship with a DAC that no longer exists. I want to understand why companies want to do that. I put it to Mr. Lowe that this is in breach of the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003, the purpose of which is to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Minister for Health when the long-promised community neurorehabilitation team for CHO 6 will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61858/22]

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Save Our Seafront. He was a mariner, a socialist, a lover of the sea and the harbour, somebody who had campaigned for many years, even before Save Our Seafront was set up, and somebody who should be long remembered for the passion he had for marine and maritime issues. A further commemoration of John de Courcy Ireland is something we should think about in Dún Laoghaire and...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Akleh should not be referred to the International Criminal Court, ICC, as a crime. It specifically said it should not. Mr. Ned Price, a spokesperson for the State Department, stated, "We maintain our long-standing objections to the ICC’s investigation into the Palestinian situation". The official position of the United State is that whatever it does, we must not investigate...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are an essential part of the healthcare workforce in Ireland, and that recognising our high level of skills and training was an important part of keeping those skills in the Irish health service. The long delay in implementing these measures undermines that recognition, shows complete disregard to us as student nurses and midwives, and will not encourage the current cohort of students to...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the ECB, as part of the troika, to ram billions worth of austerity down the throats of the people of this country, which has left us with this legacy of an utterly devastating housing crisis. It is long past time that the EU acknowledged its mistakes in imposing that austerity and devastating consequences it has had. I also note that this week the President has called - I support her...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...well that they are not living in poverty or having to do other jobs impacting on their research. They should be properly remunerated for the work they do so they are not living in poverty. We have a hell of a long way to go. They are also affected by the all the other issues we are facing, like housing and the cost of living. Many of them have families and the majority of our PhD...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the ECB, as part of the troika, to ram billions worth of austerity down the throats of the people of this country, which has left us with this legacy of an utterly devastating housing crisis. It is long past time that the EU acknowledged its mistakes in imposing that austerity and devastating consequences it has had. I also note that this week the President has called - I support her in...