Results 14,161-14,180 of 27,076 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Wait until it happens.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about CETA?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when he plans to establish new Cabinet committees; and the committees which will be established. [31171/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Taoiseach and the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, were touting their support for the CETA agreement, an agreement that could result in thousands of job losses, fundamentally undermine workers' rights, subvert environmental protections and, crucially, undermine the sovereignty of the legal system and the Constitution in this country and countries across Europe. Bizarrely,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach his plans in respect of constitutional reform in the coming months. [31172/17]
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it noted that it is not true that the order in front of us is exactly what was agreed at the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.
- Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle agrees with me. I was going to be rapporteur this week and I decided not to do it because we agree certain things and then other things appear both for next week and for this week. If we are taking seriously working on a consensual basis at the Business Committee, then the Government should not be pulling surprises and having things appear the day after the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which parents will be able to access the subsidies offered under the affordable childcare scheme in September 2017 in view of the fact that there is no onus on childcare providers to offer the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31177/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she envisages the affordable childcare scheme being rolled out in September 2017; the guarantees there are that childcare providers will take up the scheme in order to ensure access to it to all parents that are eligible for subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31176/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the sectoral breakdown of revenue returns in each of the years 2013 to 2016, including PAYE, corporate tax, self employment and those employed via RCT1s, in tabular form. [31551/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of persons working in the national shared services office; if these posts are permanent; if positions become vacant, if the persons will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30883/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report on the appeal by a company (details supplied) of the Scope findings regarding alleged abuse of RTC1s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31550/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (4 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the place finder service works; the way in which homeless persons or persons at risk of homelessness access this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/17]
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was because we do not believe in EU austerity.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I stated during the week, it is the hallmark of a tin-pot dictatorship to retain emergency legislation after the emergency is officially over. Mubarak did it for 25 years and it is done in all sorts of tyrannical and dictatorial-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. That is what is being done, as this is emergency legislation when the emergency is over, even according to the Government. What is the legislation designed to do? It is to bully and intimidate public sector workers, create a two-tier pay structure and accelerate the race to the bottom. The FEMPI legislation is a textbook example of what Naomi Klein called the shock doctrine. This...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a neo-liberal wet dream and the parties want to hold on to it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts.