Results 16,621-16,640 of 27,275 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolutely fair thing to do, although I am sticking quite closely to the subject matter of it, as opposed to certain previous speakers who managed to stray into discussion of the Brexit vote.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is legitimate, and I will explain the connection if it is not clear. I think it is fairly clear. This is about the disposal of its assets by Anglo Irish Bank and IBRC and huge write-downs it gave to the benefit of one person we know, at least, who happens to be Ireland's wealthiest and most powerful businessman - somebody who had a record of past connections with a previous Fine...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Iceland did not do too badly.

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the debate about again?

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is a hoot.

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a misguided, flawed Bill. It is more of the same failed policy approach that has brought us to the fairly sorry pass we are now at. In a way, it is also the worst sort of opportunism in that it plays politics with deadly serious issues such as drug addiction and gangland crime. The bizarre response to that can only really be explained by knee-jerk political opportunism, combined...

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support and welcome this all-party motion as an escalation, at least, of the political intervention of this House in securing the release of Ibrahim Halawa, a prisoner of conscience. I pay tribute to his family for their resoluteness in continuing to fight for the release of their brother. However, I have to be honest and say that I do not believe we are going to secure his release until...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts to the European Union average of 0.6% of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19850/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Cases (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to publish all advice from the Attorney General and any other State and semi-State body or agency which informed her decision to appeal the historic landmark decision of a High Court Judge (detailed supplied) to designate the Moore Street battlefield site in Dublin 1 as a national monument; and if she will make a statement on the...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will end the new entrants pay differential across the public sector given the expanding economy and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19756/16]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a day of shame for the former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and the Labour Party when he cut the pay of new entrant teachers and other public servants, something that played a big part in the decimation of the Labour Party. It is really unconscionable that this pay apartheid continues. I know the Minister has talked about negotiations but we want to know...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never said there would not be economic growth. The question is whether the benefits of that growth would accrue to the majority or to a tiny elite. That is why we raise this issue. It is extraordinary, cynical and laughable for the Minister to suggest that FEMPI was not a major factor in essentially threatening people with a stick or sword over their head and saying that if they did not...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we have the right to vote on the motion so that Members can at least show their colours in terms of their attitude to restoring the pay and conditions of public sector workers?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That could be collected in corporation tax.

Other Questions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is available?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his rationale for renewing the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions with the Department of Finance prior to this renewal on alternative possible revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most shocking aspects of the emergency measures taken was what was done to newly qualified teachers, nurses and public servants. There is nothing in the Lansdowne Road agreement that commits to doing anything about that pay apartheid. What is the Minister going to do? How can he justify the sort of pay apartheid that will mean that somebody who happens to come in after 2012...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk of negotiations is not a commitment to get rid of something that is patently unfair. Rather, it suggests that the Minister does not intend to fully get rid of something that is completely unjustifiable - namely, this sort of pay apartheid. In terms of new entrants, a lot of teachers now have no incentive whatsoever to increase their qualifications, particularly those that would...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the victims of the FEMPI legislation are sitting in the Visitors Gallery today, newly qualified teachers, young teachers and local authority workers who have been crucified with this emergency legislation first brought in by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party and continued by Fine Gael and the Labour Party. The Minister has not answered the key question. Is there still an...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no problem doing that. First, the Minister got a bounce of an extra €2 billion in corporate tax receipts last year. We are €700 million ahead of target on tax revenue at the moment, much of it coming from the corporate sector because we on this side of the House began to demand action on the "double Irish" tax scam that has started to force these corporations to pay a...