Results 16,101-16,120 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I put that to the Government. I refer to the all-party motion on Calais, to be taken without debate. The problem is that we have not seen the motion. When will we see it? I am not signing a blank cheque for a motion that relates to the fate of 200 extremely vulnerable children. I will not agree to an all-party motion, which we have not seen, without debate. Can we see the motion?
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. Since the Business Committee last met the week before last, an issue we have discussed this morning and which is of the gravest importance to the entire country has come into view. We have major disruption of our secondary schools. Students or teachers are locked out, depending on how one wants to view it.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a proposal. There has been claim and counterclaim today on the reasons for the teachers' dispute and the method by which it can be resolved and that requires that we have a debate.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is simply unacceptable that this could continue.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My proposal is that we have a debate. I accept that we cannot have it today given the schedule before us, but it is reasonable to propose that there is a proper debate tomorrow to give everybody an opportunity to clarify his or her views and to put forward proposals to resolve it so that this lock-out does not continue and tens and thousands of young people are not further discommoded.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she will put in place to support parents who make arrangements to have their children cared for by private child minders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33335/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (3 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the due diligence into Dún Laoghaire harbour has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33072/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Expenditure (3 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed the anomalies in the finances of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company subject to his meeting with the stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33073/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (2 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the buy-and-renewal scheme; the way it can be assessed; when it will be rolled out in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32565/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (2 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the income threshold for social housing applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32623/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (2 Nov 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action a person (details supplied) can take regarding missing PRSI contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32567/16]
- Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy McLoughlin on bringing this Bill forward. It cannot come a moment too soon. We need to make a definitive decision to ban hydraulic fracking, any prospect thereof and any other form of unconventional gas and oil extraction. I am pleased Members are now debating this Bill. It appears the Bill will pass through this Second Stage and will move on to Committee Stage. Deputy...
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He actually made a few good points, in fairness.
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think it has worked out very well for any of us.
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In all seriousness, while it is not quite praying, it is the Government getting down on its knees and beseeching Europe to give us special opt-outs for the beef sector. That is not acceptable when we have the UN Meteorological Organization stating in the last week we have passed another serious, worrying and dangerous milestone in terms of climate change in that, as was well trumpeted in the...
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us get down on our knees, Danny.
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not realise I would be called so early. Is there no speaker from the Labour Party?
- UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I could have done with ten more minutes to prepare.