Results 14,321-14,340 of 26,901 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am reading it.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is not.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So we can all do that.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is moving the goal posts.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The purpose of the amendment which we discussed in some detail last time is to extend the ban on hydraulic fracking proposed by the Bill, which we support, to include offshore. There has been considerable debate and lobbying and so on, about this over the last week and concerns have been expressed that raising this issue would in some way frustrate the passing of the Bill. I wish to restate...
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in the rules that I am allowed to respond.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is, yes.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is the second.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I note that a further amendment to this Bill was submitted yesterday. I believe in debating everything to the fullest extent, whatever people want to say on Bills.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, I want to ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle about the precedent here because to my knowledge we are always given a deadline to submit amendments that is often difficult to meet. We now have an amendment submitted in the middle of Report Stage, long after that deadline. I would like that explained to me because if that is setting a precedent whereby we can submit amendments in the...
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, 30 May, according to the piece of paper.
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For clarification, I want to stress that I have no difficulty with that. My point is about procedure, not the content. As this is the precedent we are setting, I want to understand how, in the midst of Report Stage, we can submit amendments. That is the precedent that has been set. I will be very glad if we can do that because that makes it an even more dynamic process, but that has never...
- Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know the procedure through which this happened. Was it just submitted and accepted? Did the Deputy have to go to the Ceann Comhairle and make a special case? What were the rules that allowed the deadlines to be broken? Can this be explained to me?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full cost of his high profile advertising campaign against fraud in social protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25953/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (31 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of his interest in those who get up early in the morning, he will give a commitment to ending the pension inequality that has emerged due to cuts to the State pension in previous budgets and is experienced by many who spent many years getting up early in the morning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25954/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach sure about that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we exercise it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would help if Mr. Jeremy Corbyn won. The Taoiseach should say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would it not be better if Mr. Jeremy Corbyn got in?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is coming up on Ms Theresa May. That will put the cat among the pigeons.