Results 14,761-14,780 of 26,902 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that there are no changes made within Iarnród Éireann that will result in the removal of staff from DART stations throughout Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14409/17]
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Staff are being progressively eliminated from our DART stations. We have it on good authority there are plans to remove staff altogether from DART stations including those at Sandycove and Glasthule, Grand Canal Dock and Lansdowne Road and then move on to de-staff other stations afterwards. DART staff provide absolutely vital health and safety protection, line safety protection, access for...
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very disappointing the Minister read - word for word - from the letter I received in response from David Franks, the CEO of CIE, and it typifies what is going on. I do not want to hear the propaganda of Iarnród Éireann as it axes staff and compromises health and safety. If there are no staff in certain DART stations, particularly at night, older and disabled people will not...
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give it to the Minister.
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is word for word-----
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----David Franks's letter to me.
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Word for word.
- Priority Questions: Railway Stations (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me assure the Minister that de-staffing is taking place. Killiney has lost its staff. There is nobody there at night and it is seriously compromising access and safety. People in wheelchairs cannot get on the train if there is not somebody there to put a ramp out. They already have to give huge amounts of notice to get on the train. Pat in the Sandycove station told me this Saturday...
- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to say I find this whole issue extremely distressing, as do huge numbers of people. As Deputy McDonald has already done, I want to pay tribute to those who have campaigned for truth and justice on this issue. I am glad that we are at least close to the moment of vindication for those who suffered and died at the hands of the Bon Secours order in Tuam and the State that colluded with...
- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chairman for that.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions or communications he has had with Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company or Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council with regard to the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14068/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Diaspora Centre Establishment (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if has reconsidered the decision by his predecessor to cancel the plans for a national diaspora centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14069/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed report with regard to the Bus Éireann dispute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14070/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the transfer of ownership of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company from his Department to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in line with the Harbours Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14067/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (22 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention or that of his predecessors has been drawn to a decision in 2015 of Córas Iompair Éireann, CIE, to extend for six years the terms of the master development agreement in relation to a site (details supplied); if he understands the rationale for this decision in view of the fact serious questions had been raised...
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up where Deputy Barry left off. Something that depresses me about the frightening rise of the far right and the openly racist - in some cases, openly neo-fascist - organisations is the poverty of analysis, deep cynicism and, often, dishonesty of the political establishment in this country and across Europe when faced with the dire threat of a return to the extreme nationalist and...
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----Fine Gael-----
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----Labour and the Greens-----
- European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt Deputy Donnelly.