Results 17,081-17,100 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Under both models, the council will pay. That is what the Minister proposes and the Deputy should ask him who will pay for it, not me. In either case because of what is proposed in the legislation, whatever happens in Dún Laoghaire Harbour will be paid for by the public. It is a disingenuous red herring to suggest that if People Before Profit or Save our Seafront or whichever group...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments specifically relate to Dún Laoghaire Harbour. While the Harbours Bill is an appropriate place to discuss Foynes Port and all the rest of it, the amendments deal with Dún Laoghaire Harbour, not Foynes Port or anywhere else. I agree with the point made about the cost of inflated executive salaries and so on.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. In Dún Laoghaire the chief executive receives €136,000 a year, plus approximately €20,000 on top for various extras. The recommended salary for other-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, I have to say-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am the only one whom the Ceann Comhairle has reminded of it.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking to the amendments. I do not know why the Ceann Comhairle cuts across me when I am speaking specifically to the amendments.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking specifically to them.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Ceann Comhairle spent a minute of that time cutting across me.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It works both ways.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was speaking to them. I was not going off them. The Minister implied in his response that there was no difference between the two options. He said he would not accept my amendments because he had them covered in the Bill, but that implies there are not two options. The reason he has two options is they are different. Perhaps we might discuss the differences.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are discussing amendments Nos. 2, 28 and 29.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So, may I talk to amendment No. 28?
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 29 proposes to insert:“(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 company’s harbour to Dun Laoghaire...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about examples of corporate subsidiaries.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And these are amendments-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These are specific amendments.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are amendments about whether we have a corporate subsidiary model for Dún Laoghaire Harbour or whether we have it as fully integrated part of the council.