Results 16,081-16,100 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of all new funds allocated to early child care for 2017 and the way in which this money will be allocated; the Estimates for budget 2018 to maintain the services for 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33334/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows from Deputy Ryan's, in a way. There is no doubt that we need to move in the direction of assisting people with the punitive cost of child care. We also need to underpin parental choice. We need to ensure that it will actually achieve what the Minister hopes it will. Given the amount of money involved, I worry whether it can achieve that. Is the €32 million the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The scheme does not start until September 2017. How long does the funding of 32 million run into next year? What is the full year cost of the universal and targeted elements? I am in favour of targeted and universal elements. I recognise that people working in child care have to be paid properly and so on, and that we need to develop capacity. Given all of those requirements and the fact...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Unfortunately, I could not attend the dialogue last week because I had a commitment-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with Deputy Brendan Howlin. There will not always be agreement but there will be agreement in some areas and we should try to achieve agreement in these areas and work together regardless of whether it is taking up issues with the European Union or the British Government around things like grant funding in Northern Ireland, making sure we do not have a hard Border and other issues...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody else was interrupted.
- Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing and all other practices to extract Hydrocarbon from coal seams, shale rock and tight sands in Ireland. I am aware that the week before last we debated Deputy Tony McLoughlin's Bill which I supported to ban fracking. In parallel with whatever work he was doing on that Bill,...
- Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015: Leave to Withdraw (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to withdraw the Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the motion is not what has been sought by the Not On Our Watch group, we want it amended and we want a debate. If it is what has been sought and what has been discussed in this House, happy days. If there is any row-back in the motion that is to be tabled by the Government in terms of the 200 unaccompanied children, we want a debate on it.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I object to that?
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not agreeing to that. We cannot sign a blank cheque.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What?
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was two weeks ago. The lock-out has happened since then.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking for a bit of urgency to respond to something that is happening now.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to repeat my point on the proposal in regard to Thursday. If the lock-out goes ahead on Wednesday, I simply cannot believe we will finish out the week without a serious discussion in this House. It is a dereliction of duty for the House not to debate the issue in detail and try to find a solution.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Business Committee did not meet last week.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This has come up since then. If the Minister of State, Deputy Doherty, does not understand that an urgent crisis has arisen since last week, then she is living on a different planet to the teachers and tens of thousands of pupils who have been discommoded.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I urge the Government to allow for such a debate.