Results 14,941-14,960 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chairman.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Those in Fianna Fáil have exposed their true colours. They are for water charges. They sign up with the troika for water charges. They commission reports from PwC detailing the plan for water charges. Then, a mass movement is mobilised on the streets against the charges. Then, they are against water charges. Then, the pressure comes on from Fine Gael and they want to leave back...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It means saying what suits people when it suits them, as opposed to the words of people who are accused of being populist and who have a consistent principled position of opposition to water charges. I am referring to people who stick to that position and who build movements to vindicate that position. The same people have forced at least some of that position on a reluctant and resistant...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pull the other one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an infrastructure question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action last met; and when it will next meet. [17912/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One very important part of our infrastructure is ports and harbours. I want to know if the Government has discussed the very long-running saga of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. The Harbours Act, brought forward by the Government, suggests that the harbour company will be transferred to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. This has still not happened although most other harbour...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid the Taoiseach is in denial. This is not about the collapse in 2008; it is about a policy decision the Taoiseach's Government made in 2011 at which time he said the new policy represents a fundamental reconfiguration of the landscape of housing support in Ireland. The statement went into detail. The Government was to stop building council housing and rely on leasing arrangements...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and use all its resources to provide social housing?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will he ensure that people in the HAP programme have secure accommodation and that local authorities will be obliged to keep them in permanent and secure housing?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Otherwise, the weasel words mean nothing.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I went a few seconds over.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Micheál Martin went eight minutes over.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I have a response?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is selling the land.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a lack of supply of council houses.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Six years.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to be honest and say I am sick and tired of hearing the Taoiseach or representatives of the Government say it takes time to fix the homelessness and housing emergency. I came into the Dáil in 2011 and brought in with me, probably for the first time, dozens of families and individuals, including children, who were facing housing emergencies at that time. I warned the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell Antonia, whose father has motor neurone disease and who - along with her father - is about to be evicted at the end of this month and has nowhere to go.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell Anna, who is living in a boxroom at her parents' house, sharing with her 14 year old niece, her two year old daughter and a three year old son. The list goes on. I will be writing to the Taoiseach with all of these cases.