Results 14,501-14,520 of 26,902 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are all singing from the same hymn sheet in agitating for a change in policy around the fiscal rules, we can just as easily agitate and in my opinion we should and I invite the Dublin Chamber of Commerce-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I would say he has flummoxed the Government guys. Ireland being part of and a leading figure in the race to the bottom on corporate tax has now spurred a response from both the Tories in Britain and from Trump who are now engaging in this tax competition. Any advantage we think we may have got from operating a low corporate tax regime could easily be taken from us. To my mind, it begs...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The State was sitting on empty properties.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A fantasy figure has just appeared, namely, that the State has apparently purchased 40,000 houses. The more accurate truth is that NAMA has flogged off thousands of homes or, worse, as the Balally example indicates, has sat on empty properties in public ownership and when local authorities sought to purchase them, it refused and chose to sell them to a vulture fund instead. The vulture fund...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Taoiseach going to do for these people? He should enforce a compulsory purchase order on those apartments.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could start that process.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Today we saw yet another damning piece of evidence, in the form of the daft.iereport, of the abysmal failure of the Government to deal with the spiralling rental, housing and homelessness crisis. The report shows that rents have jumped by a record 13% in the past year - €134 per month on average over the course of a year - guaranteeing to escalate that crisis and lead to more...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to ensure Ireland is not fined for failing to reach targets for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21822/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure any future funding model for the national broadcaster will examine the way companies such as (details supplied) and others pay nothing to terrestrial broadcasters for access to their linear channel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21823/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (9 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a change in policy to allow grant support and some other financial supports for persons that seek to change educational disciplines or career in order to find employment, even if the level of education in the new discipline or subject they wish to take has already been attained in another discipline; and if he will make a...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am forced, once again, to ask the Government to clarify its position on legislation on access to medicinal cannabis. I am doing so because Vera Twomey, the mother of Ava Barry who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy, Dravet syndrome, has been outside all night and remains outside the Dáil. She is seeking a meeting with the Minister for Health, which he promised, regarding gaining...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the IMO said.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Harris, is not a doctor. Those in the IMO are.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The doctors of this country said that is ridiculous and that a GP is enough.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, sorry. The Minister, Deputy Harris, made that decision. The doctors of this country do not agree.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is flipping outrageous. The Government is second-guessing the doctors.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Listen to the doctors.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is outrageous.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A GP is enough, according to the doctors of this country.