Results 16,661-16,680 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While the Acting Chairman must manage the House and prevent Deputies from speaking about irrelevant issues, I take very seriously the point I made which I consider to be very relevant. As such, his intervention is out of order.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What he has done is-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can spend half an hour talking about it if I want.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can; this is Second Stage.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, I want to proceed.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to proceed without intervention by the Acting Chairman.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, is it a ruling of the Chair that I am not allowed to spend as long as I like discussing a particular section?
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean I am not allowed to discuss-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will do so. I will also continue with the argument I was making, which is my main argument.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will continue my contribution and if the Acting Chairman continues to interrupt me, people can judge the matter for themselves.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, intervene or interrupt.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As Deputy Catherine Connolly pointed out, section 23 addresses the specifics of the issue. It provides a timeline of 36 months in which the State can make an adjudication that parents have neglected or failed their children. If I understand the Bill correctly, the child may have been fostered for 18 months of this 36 month period. Potentially, this means that he or she may have been with...
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, but I am making the point that it is precisely children like those whom I have mentioned in respect of whom the State might conclude, given the effects on parents-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a bizarre intervention by the Chair, but let me-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, it is. It depends on whether one looks at it from a Fine Gael or an holistic perspective.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the point that legislation that empowers the State to take children from their parents without their consent and to have them adopted is very problematic if the reason the parents have failed their children is the State has failed to provide them with the basic things they need to look after their children such as a house. It is not very easy to look after one’s children...
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am going to protest formally.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am going to protest formally to the Ceann Comhairle tomorrow because of the Acting Chairman’s intervention. There is no one in the House who believes that is unsuitable.