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- Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We debated quite a bit of this on Committee Stage so I will not delay excessively. I will reiterate briefly the reasons we have tabled a series of amendments to this Bill and more generally why we will, at the end of this process, be opposing this Bill and calling for a vote on it. I indicated this on Second and Committee Stages. This Bill, which will probably go largely unnoticed by...
- Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to start not with the detail that has been discussed but the bigger picture at stake in all of this. There was a report by Jim Power which received some publicity on Sunday. With all the news of Garda matters and the bus strike, it has been somewhat drowned out. This is very unfortunate because what the report suggests is pretty explosive and makes even the Apple scandal pale in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps we could just add an extra ten or 15 minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from the demonstration by the bus workers. One of the bus workers told me that if Bus Éireann gets what it is looking for the workers will lose hundreds of euro a week. The workers cannot do this. Does the Minister accept that they cannot do this and therefore they have no choice but to escalate this dispute? If we are looking at an escalating, prolonged dispute by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a level playing field with the private operators against Bus Éireann because it has to carry a range of responsibilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is getting less subsidy for the free travel scheme than private operators. These private operators are running Bus Éireann out of business and the Minister is allowing that to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have maybe two or three minutes.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Strength (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to bring the Air Corps up to its staffing levels needed to perform all of its existing functions and reach its stabilised strength; and when he expects the Air Corps will be in a position to provide top cover for all future emergencies. [15494/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will conduct a review and report on the resources available to the Air Corps to provide top cover following the recent tragedy in County Mayo. [15493/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (29 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the funding application by a school (details supplied) for additional classroom space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15552/17]
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste did not explain why 26 people under her remit have been suspended without prejudice.
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste will not tell us whether it is in An Garda Síochána. Why was it done?
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are running out of time.
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste think it is necessary for senior Garda management, particularly the Garda Commissioner, to enjoy the confidence of the public in order for that Commissioner and management to function effectively? It seems to me that has to be the case. If it is not the case that person is not suitable. Can the Tánaiste honestly tell us with a straight face that the public has...
- An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying they are allegations.
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: First Stage (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Afghanistan.
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: First Stage (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. I feel impelled to bring forward this Bill which seeks to insert into the Constitution an imperative to establish specifically the right to secure, affordable, dignified housing appropriate to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When are we going to do that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When are we going to do that?