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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our resentment in our initial engagements towards the IFAC was that the demand for balancing the books came against a background where they had become unbalanced by the activities of others in circumstances where the can in respect of getting revenue and expenditure back to balance was being carried by those who, by and large, had not put them out of balance or who had not made the decisions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. The IFAC has said that it is imprudent to spend money the origins of which are uncertain. There is this unexplained jump in corporate tax revenue which was not in the initial budget projections and it would be unwise to merely go on a splurge and spend it. The IFAC has said that the Government is imprudent in this regard. Would it be less imprudent to spend it if one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That increases borrowing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (3 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still spending money one does not have, if Mr. Tutty does not mind me saying so.

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The availability and accessibility of a roof over a person's head should be a right, not a matter for the market. That is the point. People cannot exist and function in a meaningful way in our society if they do not have a roof over their heads, and that should be obvious. A government that is incapable of providing a secure roof over the heads of its citizens is not worth the name...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am grand. Just let us vote.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Time.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to any Government Deputies who want to speak on this to respect the fact that an amendment has been tabled and we want to vote on it, namely on the specific proposal to remove this obnoxious discrimination against children in our schools. Please do not talk down the clock so we are forced to vote on the Bill as a whole because we support it, but we want the elimination of an...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 19:In page 13, line 39, to delete "local authority chief executive" and substitute "Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 22:In page 18, line 9, to delete "30" and substitute "10". This amendment relates to the representation of workers on the board of any company. As the Minister knows, I hope the harbour company will be dissolved. If that does not happen and the Minister ultimately decides to keep its structure, the question will arise as to whether there should be an employee...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 23:In page 18, line 30, to delete "30" and substitute "10".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 24:In page 18, line 36, to delete "A local authority chief executive" and substitute "The employees through an election".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 25:In page 18, line 38, to delete ", in the opinion of that chief executive,".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 26:In page 19, line 1, to delete "consider" and substitute "accept".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 27:In page 23, line 35, to delete "A local authority chief executive" and substitute "An Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 28:In page 24, line 10, after "Schedule 1," where it firstly occurs to insert "subject to subsection (2),".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 29:In page 24, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"(2) In respect of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, the Minister shall with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, by order provide for—(a) the dissolution without winding up of the company, and (b) the transfer of the...

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 30:In page 34, line 30, to delete "30" and substitute "10".

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 6:In page 10, line 19, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.

Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7:In page 10, line 30, to delete “local authority chief executive” and substitute “Elected Council in consultation with Stakeholder and Community Group”.